2016 has been an interesting year for many reasons. SO many famous people have died, and some NOT so famous.
At one point in my life I had 3 brothers all of them older than me. As I was told my whole life I was the "mistake", the "accident", or any other term my mother could think of, but I was the LAST of the Compton siblings. Well siblings is probably the wrong term. We were years apart, and all lived away from home. My "youngest" brother was 17 years older than I and he did live at home for awhile, but then went into the Army and made a career out of it. It was after the Korean war, but he went there for awhile. He also served in Viet Nam, as well as France, Germany, and many places here in the US. He retired from the Army with a medical retirement due to a bad heart. (Seems like that runs in the family big time).
He and his wife settled in Pennsylvania close to her family, where they lived for many years. They would come visit from time to time, but not often. Sometimes there were phone calls, but thats not like a face to face visit.
Well all of that has now stopped. David J. Compton, passed from this life yesterday around 4am STL time.
The irony is that because of something that I really dont honestly know, I was not in contact with him for several years. With my goofy family who knows what reasons are behind such decisions. The sad part is, I am the ONE that is left out of the 4 Compton brothers. Might I suggest that if you have an issue with someone in your family, or even a friend that you care about, that you not let something petty get in the way of what a family or friendship should be. While I really dont know what caused this disruption in a relationship, it happened, and I was pretty much helpless to reverse it. My brother had been in bad health for many years. I had joked many times about him having one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. Yesterday his foot slipped off the banana peel. He met God. Im hopeful that when he met Him that he was welcomed in the presence of the Almighty with open arms. For all of my parents faults, they did get us into church on a regular basis, and we all heard the word of God, and for that Im grateful. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
No truer words. God is always faithful, EVEN when we are not. So I ask you, do you have anything that you are dealing with in your family or in your friendships that is hindering a good relationship? TRY to fix it before you cant!
And then there was ONE!
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Sorry for your loss, Mike. All you can do now is make sure your children and grandchildren don't allow the same to happen to their relationships with each other. Family relationships are special, difficult at times, challenging, and can be the among the most rewarding. I am sorry you did not have the parents and family you deserved, but thankfully, you still have time to see that your children/grandchildren do have it. You and Renita do that on a daily basis and you are all blessed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue! All I can do is my best and Ive done that for 30 years with my daughter and she has turned out pretty good! She has a great little family of her own, and hopefully this cycle my mother created will END!
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