Hi Becca! I was so missing Ilana the other day just after I had dropped the boys off at your house. Just then I heard a song on the radio that Ilana and I both loved by Tim McGraw. The song is "Live like you were dying". He wrote this song when his father, baseball player Tug McGraw, was dying from lung cancer. In the chorus it goes like this:
He said
"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"
"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"
Ilana's physicians never gave her the option to "live like you were dying" because they knew dying wasn't an option to her and she wouldn't accept that.
However Ilana always lived her life like the song says.
She was daring to sky dive and mountain climb, etc (like when she auditioned for MTV's "Road Rules" at the age of 19 and was in the top 10 candidates. They did all kinds of crazy stunts. I was so happy when she didn't get chosen!
She loved deeper......always had empathy for the other person and put them first before herself.
Spoke sweeter....she was always sweet even when she didn't feel like it! She also had a gift of being a great mediator in solving problems between other people.
Forgiveness was an unspoken trait of hers......it was just a part of her who she was and she never had to be reminded of it.
Just think how much richer our lives would be if we just incorporated these few simple traits as part of our daily life.
I love you lots!
Pam
as always, MOM IS RIGHT
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