tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post7498460554536324664..comments2024-02-28T12:45:42.761-05:00Comments on Hoosier Ink: Sally WrightThe ACFW INDIANA Chapter Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07282742986179364847noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-35522276999893278382012-09-24T11:26:42.946-04:002012-09-24T11:26:42.946-04:00I consider myself blessed to know Sally. I used to...I consider myself blessed to know Sally. I used to be in retail wine and valued her as a good customer, soon to be, a good friend and mentor. I showed her a few samples of my writing and she was most gracious and encouraging. I always looked forward to her visits into the wine department but since I had retired just over a year ago I don't see her much. She responded to my last email telling me about what she was going through. I was unaware of what was going on. I just finished my second book and dedicated it to her: "For Sally who had the nerve to tell me I could write." Sally, dear, I'll keep you in my prayers. Please get better--I need to read some more Ben Reese books. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258388006532501201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-13065177628178066962012-04-29T06:49:51.934-04:002012-04-29T06:49:51.934-04:00Maybe I was supposed to read this today, two weeks...Maybe I was supposed to read this today, two weeks after the last post, where it's probably buried where nobody will read it, but I still need to comment. I'm dealing with a much less traumatic event, but I have a choice of picking up an activity that will limit my writing time (already too limited) for about six months. Sally's comments have given me some perspective. Thank you.Jeffrey C. Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03260244563274650475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-70394769023739069192012-04-14T10:52:38.097-04:002012-04-14T10:52:38.097-04:00Wow, what powerful insights. Thanks, Crystal and S...Wow, what powerful insights. Thanks, Crystal and Sally. I needed that!Rachael Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000599424258251598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-21593352817334304652012-04-13T19:35:15.135-04:002012-04-13T19:35:15.135-04:00Crystal and Sally, thanks for sharing. I loved how...Crystal and Sally, thanks for sharing. I loved how you said you were content with how you were living your life. That's a life well-lived. God is so good to be a part and to have a plan and purpose for us.Mary Marie Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07140800346217363866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-60089251762007193102012-04-13T15:47:01.943-04:002012-04-13T15:47:01.943-04:00Thank you all for responding. MrsP is certainly ex...Thank you all for responding. MrsP is certainly experiencing something very similar to what I've been going through and her comments mean a lot. I am a worrier by nature, and yet God has enabled me to not worry much at all through my cancer but to be quite normal and peaceful. That definitely is a gift from God! <br /><br />Malcolm Muggeridge, who was a very insightful and interesting English writer, journalist and TV documentary maker became a Christian late in life after having known and interviewed some of the most interesting people in the 20th century from Ghandi to Churchill to countless others. He was a Communist as a young man who actually moved to Russia in '33, intending to emmigrate, was the first to see what was really going on and smuggled out reports on the mass murders in the Ukraine, etc., before he left the country. He was also a partying-womanizer in his early days who had an "open marriage." But as an old man, doing a TV show on Jerusalem, watching the faces of those coming out of the "tomb where Christ was buried" - though he thought it was a commercial tourist trap hoax - he was awed by the devotion and sanctity and change he saw on the faces of the ordinary believer. He wanted to have that. And then he did a show on Mother Teresa (having read a lot of the Bible and theology all his life), and became, as I said before, a Christian. <br /><br />Muggeridge said repeatedly after his conversion that suffering is the only thing we ever really learn from; that it changes us for the better; that most of us already know that, but we still want to avoid suffering. <br /><br />Christians who have suffered through something certainly have a chance to be more effective witnesses as they're closely watched and listened to by non-believers. How we handle the hard times makes what we believe more real to others. <br /><br />Whatever God sends is the right thing, as MrsP says so well, and He will give us the grace to get through it, whatever it may be.Sally Wrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-10430025173970118072012-04-11T16:18:51.805-04:002012-04-11T16:18:51.805-04:00Sally--
You talk about things we think often about...Sally--<br />You talk about things we think often about right now...today we say goodbye to a friend who passed away the night before Easter and my husband was diagnosed with two cancers in 2009. How we are going to choose to live what remains of our lives is constantly with us. And we came to the same conclusion as you. We live best when we live not to desire to change anything...to pick up whatever God lays at our feet every day, to choose contentment rather than yearn for what we do not have. Life includes both bitter and sweet and God lets us enjoy it for exactly the right amount of time. Whatever the future holds, I am so glad to rise up every day to a world He made especially for us to share with Him, whenever we look for Him in the cool of the day.JoAnne Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12736685999963791015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-76874541580474096492012-04-11T13:36:04.300-04:002012-04-11T13:36:04.300-04:00Sally is now done with chemo and her CT scan is go...Sally is now done with chemo and her CT scan is good. Still praying for her. Thanks, Sally, for your generosity.Crystal Lainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09284296811544392777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676691386361883927.post-63318043126600822362012-04-11T11:45:01.817-04:002012-04-11T11:45:01.817-04:00WOW! Thanks for sharing.WOW! Thanks for sharing.Loree Huebnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845600356878587780noreply@blogger.com