From Where I Sit, From Where You Stand: A Roll Through LifeAuthor House, 2007 M04 2 - 332 páginas As Marshall, with his wife and family, rolls through life, accompany him. Enjoy the witty and often whimsical episodes that occur. In work, play, travel, community, and worship, ponder the dialogues of opinions, perceptions, events, and realities of being physically challenged. The journey, which includes more than fifty years in a wheelchair, is presented in a topical display in chapters on different arenas of life: The Paradox - Diversities of perceptions and realties. The Good Old Days - Early life on a one-horse farm. Fate Knocked at My Door - The accident. Angels of Mercy - Hospitalization. Letters of Cheer - Student nurses’ letters. Give Me Elbow Grease - Rehabilitation You Can Go Home Again - Summer at home. The Halls of Ivy - Education. Keeping the Faith – Job searching. The Birds and the Bees – Love and passion. Dreams Come True - Marriage and family. Toiling in the Vineyards - Work experiences. No Man is an Island - Community life. On the Road - Travel. God Bless You – God, others, and I. Keeping the Juices Flowing - Adapting Can’t See the Forest for the Trees – Perceptions. Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk – Realities. The Golden Years - The senior years. The Journey has been one of challenges, physical, mental, and spiritual. It included two years of hospitalization and rehabilitation to prepare him to enter a world not yet ready for the physically challenged. He found himself looking inside with no way in. He boarded airplanes by hand-walking the support rails. He dealt with perceptions: “What can you do? You are handicapped!” His faith and hope were tested: Why me, God? Should I marry? Will any company hire me? Successes came: A lovely wife, two beautiful adopted babies, enjoyable work, friendships, health, and joy.
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... feeling human being sits there. The bard Shakespeare eloquently stated, “All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Life is like a play. We go through the stages of our life acting it out. We all have a role to ...
... I can attest to more than just a few calluses from those plow handles in my roll through life! Feeling, Wheeling Down the path of life, Experiencing what it giveth. THE GOOD OLD DAYS Tedious toil , Working the soil 6.
... feeling of accomplishment. And even joy! As for creature comforts, we had little. We burned wood and coal for heating and cooking. On many a blistery, snowy, winter afternoon, I found myself on one end of a two-man cross cut saw to ...
... feeling of sadness comes o'er me my soul cannot resist; That A feeling of sadness and longing, That is akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. The person in the poem turned to poetry for solace. Mom ...
... feeling from do so. We went to church on Sunday morning, on Sunday night, and to Wednesday night weekly prayer meeting. The sermons were “Repent of your sins. Turn to God. And save yourself from Hell.” Where was God's love? I never ...
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Letters of Cheer | 47 |
Give Me Elbow Grease | 65 |
You Can Go Home Again | 87 |
Keeping the Faith | 111 |
Dreams Come True | 133 |
Toiling in the Vineyards | 157 |
No Man Is an Island | 185 |
On The Road | 213 |
God Bless You | 233 |
Keeping the Juices Flowing | 253 |
Cant See the Forest for the Trees | 275 |
Dont Cry Over Spilled Milk | 295 |
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