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It also helps me to remember that no one is perfect and that we all make mistakes along the way. I could not have asked for a better role model and I will continue look up to him for the rest of my life. I have learned so many things from him in the 34 years I was honored to know him. Hard work, love and caring for those around you are just some of them, but these are the things that I will never forget.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-10
If I speak in the languages of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:1-10, New International Version (NIV)
From Marianne Arcangeli
Dad and I, each stubborn to the core, resolute in our beliefs, and, until very recently, I think, firmly convinced that in order to love the other, we must convince the other of our "rightness".
from Michelle Paolillo
I want to give a small glimpse into what Jack’s last 11 days were like with us, because I think our interactions over those days are so clearly summed up in this scripture verse from 1 Corinthians 13:1-10. Jack’s heart was open, loving and giving, despite the frailty of his frame. He was good humored about the many indignities of intimate care we gave that he used to do himself, and accepted them as loving service, and as new ways to be close to his family. Even in the midst of his suffering, he was able to fully savor the simplest of loving gestures: holding hands, a shave and a bed bath, a hug, and of course, the words “I love you”. I never heard him worry about what would happen to him, but instead, about what would happen to those of us left here. For Jack, in his final days, there was no creed other than love, given freely and unselfishly.
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