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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 28 2008 : 3:34:03 PM
OH LORDY GURLFRENZ .. get the tissues ... several boxes of them!
what a wonderful film .. i just watched it and boo-hooed almost all the way through it ... i have seen it before (and i read the book) .. but i still enjoyed it so much this time too! so full of wonderful advice about life.
be sure to rent it and watch it and let me know what you think!
xo, frannie
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 11:25:58 AM
p.s. bridgett .. pour a glass of wine for ME too .. and i could use a whole box of boo-hoo tissues. but ya' know .. stories like these bring what my daughter wednesday calls: "tears of joy". xo
now .. miz bridgett .. a 'story' of one of the five people you will meet in heaven and how a memory of a SPECIFIC EVENT
happened and 'led you down a path in your life'. xo
jump in her gurlfrenz .. dig deep .. even if you choose to not share these stories at this time .. i hope you will do this little 'exercise' and share it with someone you love. xo
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 11:23:09 AM
oh jeannie .. THAT is the story i was waiting to hear! 'the story' is what it is all about. to think 'of' the general feelings .. and then to dig to get to the heart of little remembrances of events in our lifetimes that truly make us have the feelings we have.
how very dear .. i could actually envision you feeling sick and sad and your description of your father coming home .. i even saw him putting his lunch box on the kitchen counter (it's the 'little things' that bring a story to life!)
i loved your description of the warmth of his strong shoulder and how it calmed and relaxed an anxious little girl. I saw you being carried to each room he went into .. knowing in his heart of hearts that you needed the gentle 'rocking' of his walk (most children LOVE to be carried around .. it will often lull a fretful child into sleep!)
... he would carry me outside on warm days and walk all over the yard ... not saying anything .. just carrying me around. lordy! chile! that line broke my heart with joy! it touched my inner core .. as i can never, ever remember my dad picking me up and carrying me .. that is a bonus you surely got with your daddy. my dad's mental condition made it such that he could not bear to be touched or to touch anyone.
you are a poet! i hope your WRITE these WHOLE stories down for your children and your children's children! thanks so much for sharing that!
friends so rarely touch the 'core' of their being and share it. i love that you went beyond the 'feelings' to the 'why' and were willing to include us in your thoughts. thanks sweet friend! xo
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 10:45:04 AM
Bridget, you are hilarious! :) I am with you on the wine, girl, and plus I have easyflow tear ducts myself.
In answer to Frannie's question, the first thing that came to mind was this: When I was little I was prone to upset tummies and earaches. Often, I would get sick and dehydrate. Or my ear would hurt so bad. So for days I could not eat much at all. And I had to lay in bed and be BORED (or so I thought). So daddy, who worked shifts, would come home, put his lunch box on the kitchen counter, and pick me up. For hours, I would lay my head on warm shoulder and relax against him, and he would carry me all over the house, from room to room, so that I could get out of bed and see what was going on. He would carry me outside on warm days and walk all over the yard, not saying anything, just carrying me around. The memories are vivid of what it felt like to be picked up and carried by him. He had a strong neck, and those strong forearms and black wavy hair. I remember seeing those so clearly as I was carried. And the warmth on my hurting ear always felt so good. So there it is. One of many stories about my dad.
Frannie - can you imagine how sad you would have been to come downstairs and your dad not be there in the chair with the tree lights on But he was!!! That is so sweet.
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 10:29:58 AM
Oh Mammy this is something I'll have to see....maybe some wine and tissues :-p all alone.
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 09:57:52 AM
that's beautiful and wonderful advice!!! i had an extremely gentle father too .. he had a mental illness and yet . .his gentleness and strength shone through when he was with the children.
a SPECIFIC EVENT that showed his gentleness and thereby affected my life was that despite his illness .. every christmas morning of our childhood .. we would wake up at about 4 or 5 a.m. (ha! sometimes THREE a.m!) .. my sister would lead us down the stairs .. and ALWAYS .. there was my daddy sitting in a big overstuffed chair with the christmas tree lights lit for us. he wouldn't say much .. just his gentle presence there .. and this is the 'life lesson' i learned from those christmas mornings: always be kind and gentle and 'aware' of the needs of children.
his strength came through in his ability to not be 'off the edge' in our presence. THIS act of strength taught me to not show 'alarm' or 'fear' around my children.
jeannie .. tell us a story of HOW he showed that gentlness and strength to you .. was there ONE THING ... that sticks in your mind that brought that characteristic very alive to you? how have you used these qualities in your life? who have they affected most?
i remember reading the book .. and often books are better than the movie versions .. but i LOVED this telling and showing of the story! xo
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 09:42:52 AM
This is what my dad taught me, and I saw it on an old sign years ago.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Oh, and Frannie - I forgot to tell you I also read the book several years ago! It was good. I bet the movie is better.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:50:43 AM
there is a BEAUTIFUL side to each person's heaven too! but .. you have to get the movie to see that!! i promise .. it is sooooooooooo worth it! if you let the film give you YOUR messages! xo
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:49:42 AM
eddie's second person he met in heaven (NOT who he would LIKE to have met .. but who he met specifically because of an act in their lifetime that changed eddie's life)
was his commanding officer during a battle .. this was a powerful theme and had MUCH to do with making eddie who he was (ANGRY most of his life because of it!!) but 'on the other side' .. this officer showed him how sometimes 'bad' things happen for a reason .. and that 'good' can come of it .. if we just look for it ..
which is believe this film is all about .. and these are the things i'm hoping your stories will show:
gosh .. i'm waxing philosophical today!
eddie 'hit the wall' while in viet nam. he was a prisoner along with some fellow soldiers .. they broke loose and were escaping when unbeknownst to eddie .. he hit is sane limit in this awful war! he got a torch and while his buddies were finding a truck to escape in .. he TORCHED all the huts in the village ...
THEN .. he 'thought' he saw a person in one of the huts .. and had a NEED to save them (despite the fact that in his frenzied state of mind .. he was killing and destroying!) he called to them and started into the burning hut to save them (if indeed there really was someone in there!) .. his commanding officer told him to STOP. he did not .. he could not .. he caught on fire and continued into the hut.
his commanding officer SHOT him in the knee to keep him from going further in and being lost himself! his buddies dragged him to the truck and were tending to him as he was in shock! they reached a point where the officer got out of the truck to check for snipers and land mines before allowing his men to cross it. HE STEPPED ON A LAND MINE AND WAS INSTANTLY BLOWN TO KINGDOM COME!
EDDIE did not know this .. he did not know what happened to his buddies .. he did not remember much of anything of this day .. except that he was haunted by memories of 'maybe' seeing a person in the hut he had set on fire! he came out of the army .. and the war .. angry at his leg wound and forever LIMP and felt that he could not pursue his life's dreams .. and ended up spending his entire life the same place his dad (whom he hated) had (more on the dad later) ... as a MAINTENANCE MAN at the carnival pier!
he had met a beautiful kind woman before he left .. and felt he could not give her all the dreams he had for them. they married despite this and despite his unhappiness (more on his wife later in the story too).
when he found out it was his commanding officer who shot him and 'ruined' his life .. the LESSON LEARNED was that sometimes a 'leg' has to be 'sacrificed' for a 'life'. AND .. the officer SACRIFICED his LIFE for his men!
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:39:01 AM
jonni .. what ONE SPECIFIC act did your dad do .. that changed your life .. that helped make you who you are?
can you think of ONE thing that both your great and your grand did .. that taught you to meet challenges and treating strangers as close friends? do you have ONE specific memory that taught you something important?
tell us a specific story of an event.
i'll tell about eddie's second person he met and exactly one thing that changed his life:
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:19:27 AM
Well, I have 3, but I'm not sure who the other two would be...
In no particular order, my Daddy (who died when I was 21)...like Shirley Jean, I was very much looking forward to having him walk me down the aisle, share in my life as an adult--help me purchase my first home, etc...I still dream about him and he's been gone 15 years January.
Next would be my Great Grandmother, Theodocia and her daughter, my Grandmother, Helena. I loved them both so very much and both were such an influence in my life. Because of them, I meet challenges head on, don't suffer fools, treat strangers with the same courtesy saved for close friends and family, cook well, work hard, and have a very deep love for God's creatures, great and small. I'd never seen either Grandmother turn away a stray (human or animal) from their door.
I'll have to think on the rest....
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 07:10:05 AM
I LOVED that movie and book. I actually saw the movie first..that usually isn't the way I do things...it was very well done.
Gosh..I need to think about your question.....
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 06:40:48 AM
gurlfrenz .. think about it .. who do you think has come into your life to teach you a 'life lesson'?
not WHO you would like to meet in heaven .. but who do you think did a SPECIFIC act during your lifetime that helped to make you who you are?
LET'S HEAR YOUR STORIES! XOXO
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 06:39:21 AM
in the film .. the first man eddie met in heaven was a 'circus freak' .. he had been given a substance (i forget what it was) to help cure a condition he had as a child .. it turned his skin BLUE .. with no reversal! he was laughed at and pointed at in public .. one day .. as a fairly young man .. he put on a hooded coat .. and got to drive an automobile through the city to see the sights without being stared at. it was only the second time he ever drove a car ..
little eddie was playing ball with friends and he ran into the street after a ball .. the blue man saw him and in order to save little eddie's life .. he swerved his car and he himself was killed.
eddie never knew him .. (had only seen him at the pier carnival) .. didn't know he swerved to miss him .. never knew he had given his own life to save the life of a child (which eddie also did!) BUT .. the blue man taught him that sometimes it takes the sacrifice of one life in order to give life to another .. although .. as i remember .. 'sacrifice' was NOT the life lesson from this man .. it was more that 'life continues' and that people (even those unknown) come into our lives for a purpose.
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Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 06:33:29 AM
so what one thing would you say he 'taught' you and how it affected your life? (that's what the FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN was all about). was there a certain time when 'strength' came into play that caused you to be strong? or is it something else that he specifically did that molded who you are?
i think my nannie was one of the strongest and most stoic people in my life .. but it was that specific act of choosing 'the children' over 'the fiance' that altered my life drastically.
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 31 2008 : 06:09:38 AM
my dad is number two on my list. He died when I was 19, and I was so looking forward to knowing him, adult to adult. He was always such a stoic and strong man to me as a little girl, and I would love to talk to him and be with him and really thank him for all he did for our family. I don't think I ever did that, and I should have known better at 19.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 11:25:59 AM
shirley jean .. LOVE YOUR NEW NAME
.. i almost ALWAYS give jesus as the answer when i am asked WHO WOULD YOU 'LIKE' TO MEET .. LIVING OR DEAD.
and surely ... lots of people have him at or near the top of their list. and also surely .. they feel something important has been taught to him via bible teachings.
i would like to meet jesus to know the 'person' .. I have lots of questions to ask .. would like to know from jesus himself .. what has been taught 'about' him is truth and what is not. a more than 'faith' thing .. actual KNOWLEDGE from the person Jesus.
who ELSE would you like to meet? (and why) xo
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 11:18:04 AM
I really, really want to meet Jesus as my first person in Heaven. No kidding, and I am not being a preacher here. I want to look at him and hear him speak. I always like the song "I can only imagine" because it talks about how a person will react when they meet Jesus - will they stand in awe, or fall down on their knees...I hope it is like finding a long gone friend again, and we can just sit and talk on a hillside in the country and be together for awhile.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 11:11:19 AM
o.k. gurlz .. here's a 'interesting introspection: ...
now in the 'story' .. "Eddie" dies .. and goes to heaven and 'meets' five people who have taught him something about the importance of his life (he felt it was of little worth) .. but .. oh my .. sometimes it's the little things .. sometimes it's the big things .. and often it is the 'unknown' things that happen in our lives that mold us and make us who we are.
by the way .. eddie works all his life for a permanent 'coney island' type of amusement park ... he is the 'maintenance man' .... (except when he served in the military and was in the viet nam war) .. where much of his attitude of life began .. and a certain 'horror' followed him all the days of his life .. in the END .. (which is actually the beginning of the movie .. he meets his death by attempting to save a little girl who is crouched beneath a plummetting sky ride that is surely to take her life.
He asks everyone he meets if they know whether or not the little girl survivived .. none can tell him .. until the END of the movie .. (when he meets his FIFTH person in heaven) .. .and oh my .. you WILL need a roll or two of toilet paper to blow your runny nose and wipe your weeping eyes!!!
o.k. .. with that little info .. BE SURE TO RENT THE MOVIE at your local video store. It has actually been out for qhite a while now.
NOW for our 'interesting introspection': WHILE we have the benefit of being ALIVE and looking back on our lives for FIVE people in FIVE specific instances .. who do you think you might 'meet' .. and what SPECIFIC act in YOUR life .. do you think they taught you something?
NO GENERALITIES allowed for this one .. be SPECIFIC.
o.k. .. i'll give you a 'for instance'.
One of the people i will surely meet in life is my NANNIE (who took a turn down a totally different road during the journey she was headed on .. when she saw a 'need' to be fulfilled).
When my mom left my brother, sister and me (i was about 7 years old) .. my daddy was very ill .. and ... WHAT was to become of the three of us??)
"Nannie" was my dad's sister .. my aunt.
My Nannie and her fiance had purchased a home in Washington, D.C. and were soon to be married.
Immediately and without even considering any other path .. she decided that SHE would keep us together, love us, care for us, raise us and never let us be separated or want for anything. Her fiance did NOT want a ready made family. She told him GOODBYE .. and said at the end of her life that she had NO REGRETS .. that we three children were her LIFE.
Nannie taught me .. not 'sacrifice' .. but COMPLETE love for family.
o.k. .. that is the number one person i will surely meet in heaven .. and oh my .. do i have big hugs and kisses for her! My brother, my sister and I learned her lesson well and passed it forward.
NOW .. let's hear of some of the FIVE people you will meet in heaven!
Remember .. the 'acts' and 'lessons' need not be 'earth-shattering .. just important ones to YOU ..
i'll add more of my five in the days to come.
xo, frannie
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| Claudelle |
Posted - Mar 28 2008 : 3:47:07 PM
I read the book...but didn't know it was a movie already! Thanks for telling us about it. I'm definitely going to have to rent it. =)
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| bboopster |
Posted - Mar 28 2008 : 3:44:57 PM
I have the book not read and have stayed away from the movie because I'm afraid that one of the people I'm going to meet will be my X. But I guess I should sit down and read and watch. So many people have said that it is a good story and an easy read.
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