TERRY MOSHER
Why do I hurt so much when I hear certain music sounds? Why do I hurt so much when I see a person I haven’t seen in a long while and I find them caught up in old age and all that brings to a body?
Why do I hurt for people who have lost a son like Terry Welling and Ivan Masiel recently have. Both sons just disappeared in water without others making much sense of it.
Masiel, is an ESPN College Football Writer, and you can read the incredible eulogy he gave at his son’s service by Googling “remembering Max”
Many of you know Welling, a retired Bremerton policeman who is one of the better athletes to come out around here in the last 40 years. You can contact him through Facebook.
I feel their pain, and when I say I feel it, I truly do. As I also do for the terrible violence going on in the world, especially in the Middle East where death and destruction is a daily thing.
The pain I feel is deep within my soul and it is a constant thing because I see all that is wrong with our world. How can politicians pass laws targeting religious freedom as has happened in Indiana, but also is already present in many other states?
Why are we so intolerant? What is wrong with us? Why can’t we shower each other with love? Love is the foundation for everything and without it the foundation crumples.
I just got done two hours ago watching a bio on Netflix of Johnny Carson, who was the king of late night television and as funny as he was, as good as he was in front of a TV camera, he was often terrible away from the limelight.
And I wonder why, and I feel the pain that must have filled him. I can say the same for Hank Williams, whose sad music I was attracted to during my dark years. His pain made my pain more bearable.
I guess it all comes down to what meaning life gives to us. Are we all here for a reason? If so, that is that reason?
Are we here to learn from our mistakes, our misery, our pain, and our joys, our happiness? If we are, then there is meaning to life other than just working nine to five to provide for our families.
So what is that meaning?
I have come to believe that it all comes down to love. If we all had true love with no hidden agendas, I believe the world would be at peace no matter the color of skin, the nationality, the religion we call our own.
Anyway, that is some of my thoughts. I have to end here to go get some cough drops for my wife. That also is part of life. It also is a sign of love.
Be well pal.
Be careful out there.
Have a great day.
You are loved.
