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Cancer's Bell Lap Blogs are secular and practical guidance. For opportunities of a spiritual journey in a life with cancer, see the Cancers' Windrunners Blog.

62 - MEDITATION: THE ROLE OF MINDFULNESS and a PARTNER

Submitted by Dr. Robert F. Lane on

When you decide what direction your journey will take, find a fellow traveler, a friend or a mentor, or someone on the track ahead of you.  While you’re at it, get out the bucket list you made in the first stretch and start punching it. Be intentional about both the journey and the list, and schedule them. But remember that memories of what you have done are not nearly as good as hopes of what you will do. Perhaps the journey will reveal hopes that disease and time cannot erase.

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64 - BATON PASS TO THE YOUNG

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CONTINUED: There are times when the intended recipient isn’t physically present, emotionally mature or spiritually receptive enough – yet, and there is the hope that more years of living will bring them to a place of readiness. So some many will  write planning for their words to be read six months, a year or many years later: on key birthdays 16, 21, 40 or on the eve of a marriage, year three or four when infatuation is fading and the birth of a child.

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65 - MORE ON BATON PASS

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CREATE A MEASURE OF YOUR OWN PEACE

Carl professed no fear of death, but a terrible fear of being forgotten. He feared that in the end, his life would not have really mattered. He confided that his worst fear was that he would drop the baton and die with regrets.

 He was a man of few words, but a big heart. His family was so scattered and distant that few could afford to visit him and he was beyond traveling. He knew he couldn't call them and be able to say what he wanted to say – there was just too much.

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66 - Baton Pass - CREATE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GENERATIONS

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CREATE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GENERATIONS COME

All of these writings, pictures, voice recordings and videos create a “partnership of the generations between those who are living, those who have passed and those who are yet to be born"*24 If you do these things you can start living forever right now. As The Gladiator, Maximus Decimus Maridius,  inspired his legions, "What we do here today will echo in eternity.”*25 If you pass the baton well, it will resound through the generations.

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