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Video Reflection on Dying #6--Looking Back on My Life, part 1: LESSONS LEARNED
Claude LeBlanc NOTE: I'm writing these reflections on the lessens learned during my life as I face death due to ALS at the request of my children, but I thought there might be something for others to benefit from. My hope is that you will be blessed by the blessings of my life.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Each of my children (all adults now, two married, and one with a daughter), have asked me to write down the stories of my life, and the lessons I’ve learned from them, before I die. It’s taken me a few months to decide how to do this, but it makes sense to me that these reflections are the best way. In this one, I’ll share how I want to approach these requests and why.
I’ll recount the stories chronologically and focus on the lesson(s) learned more than the details. My purpose is not to embarrass anyone, but, rather, to emphasize the blessings that have occurred to me because of the persons and events I’ve encountered. We all have a fallen nature, and negatively affect others. As true as it is of others’ effects on me, it is true of my effect on others. So, before I go through the stories of my life, I want to share a general lesson—how to live with regrets.
There are many things I wish I’d done, or not done, or done differently. I know some of the ways these things have hurt me, and others, especially my wife and family, but not all of them. They often haunt me. I can’t undo them. Even though I believe they’ve all been forgiven, they’ll never be forgotten, and I have to live with that reality each day. When I hear someone say, “I have no regrets,” I don’t know how they can say that. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” and even a cursory reflection on one’s life should reveal plenty to regret. I have no choice but to offer them to God each day, with remorse, trusting that He can bring good from them.
I’m not sure how many reflections it will take me to unpack these regrets, and the more successful things of my life, but I’ll start recounting my journey from the beginning next time.
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