More photos of the lovely girls and one of Daddy's birthday which happily occurred while we were there. The Swiss Family are at the stage where all their friends are having babies. We are at the stage where ours are having funerals. We went to one yesterday of our cheery church sidesman and have another next week of a brave lady who used her illness to promote its cause with the health authorties and government.
Death is such a strange thing. Although you know it will happen to you soon enough, you still have enough life instinct to think you might just escape. I have a distant cousin who sends several emails a day, the round robin sort. He must have plenty of time on his hands, is all I can think. Some are just US focussed, some are religious, some tend to the crude. I thought this one on death was quite good.
A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said,
'Doctor, I am afraid to die. tell me what lies on the other side.'
Very quietly, the doctor said, 'I don't know.'
'You don't know? You're a Christian man, and you don't know what's on the other side?'
The doctor was holding the handle of the door; on the other side came a sound of scratching and whining, and as he opened the door, a dog sprang into the room and leaped on him with an eager show of gladness. Turning to the patient, the doctor said,
'Did you notice my dog? He's never been in this room before. He didn't know what was inside. He knew nothing except that his master was here. And when the door opened, he sprang in without fear. I know little of what is on the other side of death. But I do know one thing........
I know my master is there and that is enough.'
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