Sublime

Few people will ever understand what it’s like to crash through a windshield or awaken to paramedics performing CPR on your body. But feeling alone? Forgotten? Lost? We all know that feeling.

call it the panoramic life review. Why? Because I saw my life in a 360-degree panorama, and it was skillfully produced and directed to remind me of my first twenty-five years of less-than-righteous behavior. No kidding. I was mortified as I watched the movie of my life unfold. I’d hurt so many people and acted out in so many cruel and ugly ways.

At a seminar on death and dying guided by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a twenty-eight-year-old nurse and mother of four was dying of cancer. She had been through eleven operations, and she asked those of us in attendance, “How would you feel if you came into a hospital room to visit a twenty-eight-year-old mother dying of cancer?” The answers called out

You know, the only thing I believe to be as important and potentially powerful as love is laughter.