Honor your Father and Mother

[Cane Pole]

Call them, better yet visit them. One day the phone will not get answered and the doors will never open again.

I had an experience where someone I know who was left along. He was found dead in bed. He had been dead 4-5 days. If his son was not so self centered, the man would still be alive. Too late to cry. So sad good bye.

[DockShootinJack]

That is some food for thought CanePole.

[stormcloud]

Both of mine are gone now but I talked to them every day. If I had to be somewhere for a few days I had a few folks that would check on them for me. The last one died in 1994. I still need help with second opinions on a regular basis. Not that I would use their advise all the time but they were always there for me.

[Billbob]

true

[fishingpox]

yessir, been checking on momma every other day. been seeing her every weekend for the last two months. mom will be 80 this year, i hope i'm dead before she is, she's stronger than me. i can't imagine this world without momma, i put her life above mine

[Billbob]

good son

[catman]

Thanks cp.

[shipahoy41]

Ephesians 6:1-4 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

Tom,
My mother passed in 1982 of a sudden heart attack she was 62. My father passed in 2003 of a sudden heart attack. He was dead in Tennessee six days before the message got to me in Ohio. He was 83 I never got to say goodbye to either one because their passing was so unexpected and so sudden. I thank God I always did the best I could for them while they were living and always told them "I love you."

[skeetbum]

Always a thought of mine, what will my later years become. Doing what I do for a living I never know when someone else' mistake will call me home. I try to tell everyone that means anything to me that I love them. Some friends looked at me funny early on but they got used to it. It helps me find comfort when I think of things like that. Dad went home in '93, Mom in '96. Miss them every day. Spent a lot of time with Mom before she left and wish I had spent more. The story you told happened to an ex-brother in law, his Dad had been gone 4 or 5 days. He left peaceful, just sat down, laid his head back after mowing some grass and went home. That was the only comfort in all that. Things have changed so much from when I was small regarding older relatives. I lived in the 'burbs and there were several families that had Aunt's, Uncles. G parents all living with them. Part of the deal. I wonder where I'll fit in? We all need to make time for others and let them know how we feel no matter how uncomfortable it makes us.