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FOR ANNA
Mar 6, 2008 | 2:30 PM PST
Tag: Prayer Request

For Anna,  my younger sister, I dedicate this blog.  Yesterday, when she woke up in her coma, she asked to be taken to the garden I made for her.  With her frail body at now 80 lbs, she still wanted to see the garden one more time.  Although I am now away from her and she is in PI to wait for our Lord to take her home, I was told that the first thing she asked for when she woke up was to see the garden.  She wonders still at the awesome beauty of the orange hibiscus, one blooming after another one fades away.  How can she have the strength to still wonder at God's beautiful creation with death looming anytime now?  As her husband always says to us, if we could only have a 10th of the strength and courage she is showing us, we should be thankful.  Yes, I am thankful that she is braver than me.  I am thankful that it won't be me to show the weakness of myself  when faced with such certainty of death, and not to be able to lead my family to an acceptance of the inevitable.  My sister Anna is such a wonderful and precious lady that is showing me and us all how to die with dignity, even with more than 2 months of pain and suffering, and a morphine diet day in and day out.  To you my sister, I salute you for you have shown me courage I can never imagine.  May God carry you in the palm of his hands when it is time to go.  But know that I love you wherever you will be, your sister, D.