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>Though I never got to actually meet Rob I did get to >chat with him through email and Chat rooms. I loved >his sense of humor and his faith in God. My heart >goes out to his family and he will be missed terribly. > > >A Parable of Immortality >by Henry Van Dyke > > >I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side >spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and >starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty >and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she >hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea >and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then >someone at my side says, "There she goes!" > >Gone where? Gone from my sight ... that is all. She is >just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was >when she left my side and just as able to bear her >load of living freight to the place of destination. >Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at >the moment when someone at my side says "There she >goes!", there are other eyes watching her coming and >other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here >she comes!"

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