What will your life mean?

[Ken Neeley]

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[Bob G.]

Ken,



Glad to see you're back! What will my life mean? I don't really think about it to much, except that I hope my children reach adulthood with the ability to make the right choices, survive in an insane society, realize the importance of family values and pass along the tradition of hunting and fishing!



Bob G.

 

[Carlos Hathcock III]

Ken,

You have wondered one of the age old questions of humankind. IMHO, we go through life looking. Some never know what they are looking for, but we are looking none the less. I am in the same boat as Bob G. I try to do what is right, teach my son how to survive, and try to not look too far ahead, as then I do not enjoy what I have NOW.

Hope that you are well and that you found lots of mushrooms.



Semper Fi



Carlos

 

[Richard Whittemore]

I'm not preaching but one of the happiest days of my life was when I accepted JESUS CHRIST as my savior and was baptised.

My only true concern is being found worthy at his second coming.

In the mean time I'll just hang on here at NTOW and pick the brains of the some of the nicest fellow sportsmen.

Maybe someday I'll figure out how fish and catch the big ones you guys always seem to get.

 

[Bob G.]

Richard,



Don't forget that when a bunch of fishermen and women talk about the size of their fish, there might be a little "story" thrown in with the truth!! Not everyone will post reports about the dinks they caught but I do!!



Bob G.

 

[sold boat]

Wow , pretty deep stuff, all I know is I hope every day goes well for my self and the other people I know and even people I don't,life is a hard go and we all have to try to make the best of our day's because they all seem to go so fast............



Glad I have the means to have my boat, some weeks it is the only thing that keeps me sane.

 

[TrepMan]

Ken - Glad to hear you've survived the shroom hunting!



For me Happiness means a lot of things at different times. But I agree with Bob G. I hope my kids survive to a very old age, find the individual meaning to thier own lives, enrich the lives of others, realize that we work so that we can LIVE ( and not the other way around), make amends for the wrongs that we all will make in life and remember that even when they are grown adults to take time to be a "child" again every day. Life is to short to take seriously every minute of the day!!

 

[Terry Heydt]

On May 18th of this year, we got an urgent call from North Carolina. Wife's mother - 50 years old, healthy as a horse, not on ANY medications, no health problems - had suffered a massive intercranial bleed. She passed before we could get down. My wife and I both have stressful occupations, and long ago realized we need to live our lives NOW. This event even further reinforced that feeling. Not "when I get a chance", not "when this happens", now. As I once read, "Dream like you'll live forever, but live each day as if it's your last".

 

[Bill Hamilton]

Terry H - Sorry about the mother-in-law.



Know what you mean. Lost my wife at age 50 to cancer after 28 years of marriage. Tough going for a while but my kids pulled me through. Daughter told me to start dating again after a year or so and she set me up on a number of "dates". Her boss at work was my first date and as it turns out there was "magic" and we have been married for over three years.



I look at my life very differently now and realize that life is too short to sweat the details. Life goes on. My wife's adage is "What would you do with your life if you knew you could never fail?" I try and live that every day and it just keeps getting better and better. Have ups and downs periodically but I have a great life and someone to share it with.

 

[Mark Hofman]

Richard:



In your baptism you were cloaked with Christ's righteousness. That is a promise he made to you, and he has never broken his promises. On the Last Day, he will not see your sinfulness, but his own righteousness given to you as a gift. Do not worry about being found worthy. That which would be found "unworthy" was put to death in your baptism. (Want reassurance? Read Ephesians 5:26; Galatians 3:26-27; Romans 6:6; Titus 3:5-8; Romans 6:3-6 and 8:38-39.)

 

[gone bye bye]

Ken are you a little attention starved? lol



Call me you Jack@ss!



Mini

 

[Gene B]

What we do in this world for ourselves and others does'nt matter in the end. It's what we do for God that matters. Accepting his son as Lord and savior is all that really matters. None of are worthy without him. None of us can do enough good things to earn rightousness. Luckily we don't have to earn it, he gave it to us freely. Serve him and everything else falls into place.



Gene

 

[Greg Meyer]

I have pulled out and used so many "get out of jail free cards"; I am beginning to believe my father's "joke"..."you can't kill a man that was born to be hanged". Call it penanence...but I try to make sure the "other guy" has a good day. And, in the end, I have one doing that.



I know that while I was a police officer, circumstances put me in positions to be there when I was needed by other people...so I think I have made a difference a few times. But, most of all I hope that my friends and family will not mourn my passing (yeah I know those of you who know me can asssure of that). Rather, I hope that they will have memories of laughs and good times that cover any sense of loss. And, when (or if) I am thought of after I am long gone... I hope "they" say he had a heck of a ride... Because, ever chance I get I look for the smile...

 

[Staci Matheis]

Ken, my Friend.....



You edited your message before I had a chance to see the contents..... The title concerns me..... It has the sound of depression..... Been there and done that..... Big time.....



Give me a call. 618-288-5041. Today and next week, I'm working evenings so anytime during the day or over the weekend works.



me!

 

[Bill McElroy]

Me!...no worries Mate..he's as stable as an M1 Abrams!!

 

[Mark Hofman]

Ken asks a valid question. What difference will your life make?



I think we take comfort in the little moments that often go unnoticed. I relish seeing my nieces raise their arms up, wanting me to pick them up and hold them. I covet the moments when my wife, sitting by my side, rests her head on my shoulder for a moment or two of peace. I look forward to the days when my brother-in-law, or my dad or father-in-law, or a friend, share the joy of setting the hook on a nice fish.



God allows us each a bit of time and the opportunities to impact the life (lives) of someone else. He gives us each our individual talents to do that in different ways - big and small. Rich Stern has given me the gift of new friendships by the effort he puts into this website (Thanks, Rich!). Marke, Ken, AndyZ, Mac, egMike, Greg Meyer, Mac, me!Craig, .... so many people.....



To those who search for the answer, all I can say is that it IS out there. If I could find it, anyone can. Keep looking, keep asking...(Hint: I didn't find it; it found me.)

 

[Ken Neeley]

Scott...errrr, I mean Stacey!!!

The post was purely rhetorical...but thanks for the concern. You truly are a good friend to many.

 

[Bob G.]

Hey Ken,



I took your original post seriously and responded accordingly!! I don't usually post stuff like that so I'm taking it all back!!!! It's all about me, huntin' and fishin'!!!!!!LOL



Bob G.

 

[Steve Rizza]

Ken,did you pick the wrong mushrooms again? lol



Steve R

 

[Mikel Stephens]

answer:

The way I have influenced the people who will still be living.

 

[Staci Matheis]

Whew! :^)