RedSea4u

Same as HL - my health is VERY poor so everything, house, bank account, etc., is in my wife's name. Sooner or later should make things much easier.

Best to all!
Scott

I met my husband at work.
I went out with him for a bet! I like a challnge
28 years down the line we are still together, we have 2 grown kids 4 granchildren, and yes he is still giving me challenges, bless him !!!!!!
Not very romantic i know, but there you have it, we are still best buddies, our battles are fought jointly, and our worries and fears(he is also in very poor health) are shared.
So i guess we have the important things in life covered really.
Our plan for our future, Alans health permitting is to retire to Egypt we have been coming there for years often, so watch this space.
So like i said not a very romantic little story, more the enduring kind of story, he gives me much to worry about and i endure it!!!!! I jest.

Personally I find your story much more romantic than most Christine. True love, in my opinion, is based upon mutual and shared goals, similar ambitions, a willingness to compromise, respect for your partner and the maturity to realise that its not all rainbows and flowers and you will have bad days but that despite that, you will always try to do your very best by your other half.

I pray that you and Alan have many more years together god willing and that his health improves too very soon x

DEE24 wrote:ya i think youre right Ebikatsu about how important it is how he treats others and how others view him...my husband is really good anytime we go to the shop he will always buy the bowabs children/family sweets, cakes etc always!!! he brings the kids up to our apartment to play...like you everybody loves him here all the neighbours welcome him everyday always mr.....never by just his name he always stops to give the poor people on the street money. he is always thinking of and trying to help others he really has a good heart and i love that so much about him....

Hmmmmm

do we have the same MIL?

HL, Scott and Christine.
Watching today's footage of Michael Jackson brings home just how precious life is and how we just don't know when it will end.

I wish you all and your spouses better health and a long happy life.

Thankyou for your kind posts Ebi and New gal.
It always puts things into perspective when someone dies, they neednt be famous or rich, but when loss is felt, i think it just makes most of us hang on a bit more tightly to what we have.

Indeed it does.








I was in tears yesterday watching the video show when they played the Heal the World video.

I remember so clearly when the 9/11 thing happened and people were stranded in airports around the world with no flights taking off and my neighbour and I went to Heathrow after hearing on the news that there were no hotels and we decided to bring home with us some travellers and give them a bed, food and let them e mail their families. We picked up 2 Canadians and 3 Germans and on the journey back next day to the airport to their catch flights home, the radio station played a one minute silence and all the cars on the M25 pulled over and stopped. I remember so clearly sitting there in the SUV with these complete strangers who were now our friends and we all just sat head bowed in silence then the radio after the silence played Heal the World.
I was absolutely sobbing my heart out!! we all were on that hard shoulder that day, and I could barely drive the rest of the way to Heathrow through the tears.
That song last night just made me remember how it was the perfect choice by the DJ on Capital that day for how the world was feeling and last night it brought back that memory so clearly to me and I now realise what a real humanitarian I think we lost 2 days ago.
The most beautiful image of another video I saw last night was the angel sweeping down on Michael at the end of the 'Will you be there' video.

OMG that angel with it's wings around him is so beautiful.

What a wonderful gesture by yourself and your neighbor

Ebi, you are one nice person.
Dont you agree though that sometimes when the chips are down its often the time when we come up with the best ideas, like you and your neighbour did.
And it can be a small thing you do, but what is small to you can be so very big to someone who just needs a little help or comfort.

Thanks for that but really it wasn't my idea at all.
All day we were glued to the screen in my neighbours house and we just felt so utterly helpless watching the people jumping form the towers and on the news they were reporting that the people were stranded and all the hotels round and near Heathrow were packed out and they had no choice but to stay in the terminal and the newscaster was asking for anyone if they had room who lived near the airports to take some in and give them a bed. We both looked at each other and it was about 9pm at night and we just had to do something useful. I remember wandering around the terminal especially looking for folk with kids or elderly and there were none. They had all been lucky enough to get a hotel bed and I guess a lot of folk gave up their rooms too for the ones with kids. We just woke up these 5 sleeping on the floor and took them back. We weren't the only ones I'm sure who done that, but I was glad the news mentioned it because it made us feel like we were doing something in what seemed like a hopeless situation. It was a 140 mile round trip, and I'm sure at one point the 5 of them must have been thinking how weird and were we going to kidnap them!!
But what I was saying really was the impact of that song. It was the last time I think I heard it till a few days ago and it brought that memory back. It's such a beautiful song and I was saying to hubby today how powerful music is. How lyrics in a song can reduce you to tears. I was playing Thriller album in the car today in tribute I wanted to go out and moonwalk up the street!! LOL
I just felt that we've now lost such a powerful what could be ambassador if it wasn't for his problems and personal life. I love Bono and what he does, but Michael just had something more humanitarian about him. A gentleness.
It's very sad and I hope his family get some answers and some peace after all this dies down.

"Heal The World"

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me
You And For Me
.........







Will you be there

Hold me
Like the river jordan
And I will then say to thee
You are my friend

Carry me
Like you are my brother
Love me like a mother
Will you be there?

Weary
Tell me will you hold me
When wrong, will you skold me
When lost will you find me?

But they told me
A man should be faithful
And walk when not able
And fight till the end
But Im only human

Everyones taking control of me
Seems that the worlds
Got a role for me
Im so confused
Will you show to me
Youll be there for me
And care enough to bear me

(lead me)
(lay your head lowly)
(softly then boldly)
(carry me there)

(hold me)
(love me and feed me)
(kiss me and free me)
(I will feel blessed)

(carry)
(carry me boldly)
(lift me up slowly)
(carry me there)

(save me)
(heal me and bathe me)
(softly you say to me)
(I will be there)

(lift me)
(lift me up slowly)
(carry me boldly)
(show me you care)

(hold me)
(lay your head lowly)
(softly then boldly)
(carry me there)

(need me)
(love me and feed me)
(kiss me and free me)
(I will feel blessed)

(spoken)
In our darkest hour
In my deepest despair
Will you still care?
Will you be there?
In my trials
And my tripulations
Through our doubts
And frustrations
In my violence
In my turbulence
Through my fear
And my confessions
In my anguish and my pain
Through my joy and my sorrow
In the promise of another tomorrow
Ill never let you part
For youre always in my heart.


RIP Michael

Lovely sentiments

Ebi, there is a similarly inspiring story about September 11, which was set into a book. I have it somewhere if you want the title.

It is a bout a community in New Brunswick, Canada, which opened itself completely to the passengers of all the flights bound for US and diverted to Canada. Quite moving.

It is a shame that it is so seldom that we see what good there is in people.

Best,
Scott

That would be nice Scott thank you.

I'm sure there were lots of stories from lots of different places around the world doing the same sort of things. It's funny when the Gaza war was on I was desperate to cross the border to get to the Shifa hospital because it broke my heart to see the staff there trying to deal with the dead and injured. I felt absolutely totally useless watching it. I worked in trauma many years and was wishing someone would have been able to organise a team of docs and nurses and get us in to help the staff who were just run off their feet and exhausted, and it's funny you know. Usually I would be so cautious about being near bombings or any type of strife but that 23 days I seriously would have had no qualms about getting in there and helping even under the bombardment. Those doctors and nurses and paramedics homes were being bombed and yet they all turned up for work those days and God bless every one of them.
These types of catastrophes bring out the best in people I think.

Many talk; you acted.

Bless you.
Scott

there are a lot of good ones out there, doing good deeds etc - its just that the bad news always outshadows the good -

we need to have a Good News TV channel or something

Dawn

I know that you have also done your fair share of great deeds.



It was indirectly because of Dawn also that the Times of London were the first to report and cover the phosphorus story in Gaza.
Lots of people played a part.
The Gazan's only met a few of us and it's a shame they didn't get to meet a lot of the behind the scenes folks too, BUT they know from me all about you.

I will meet some of these people one day!!

..... and hopefully soon I can get that 'vacation' olive harvesting in Gaza!

Hopefully one day girl.