OUR LAST "18" WORDS

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OUR LAST 18 WORDS -

Eighteen is a mystical number.
In the Hebrew alphabet it spells a special word.
"CHAI" which in Hebrew means "LIFE"
What will our last eighteen words be?
To our relatives, our friends, and our loved ones?

All too often, the last eighteen words are words of anger and hate

with no time to apologize, for the recipient of our angry words died shortly after the words were exchanged, or was never there to receive the apology.
How many have tormented themselves over the wrong eighteen words that
they said to someone and could never reverse them?
How a judge most feel pronouncing the death sentence as part of his or her last
eighteen words to a convicted person. How a doctor must f or feel telling a
patient or their family that a crisis has occurred, an incurable illness, and
those are their last eighteen words to them.
We have a responsibility to the world in carefully monitor our next eighteen words.
If  we had the vision to see that they would be our last eighteen words to that human being, what would they be?
Why not allow our last eighteen words to come from love rather than hate or anger?
The last eighteen words, how precious and valuable they are;
but we as humans, due to anger and frustration, sometimes do not monitor them
and let them say what we mean.
What will be our eighteen last words?
Is love one of them? Is G-d one of them? Is there a blessing, a good wish, a comfort?
Is there a feeling of warmth and emotion from our heart?
Please, let us use the strength we have, reach deep into our inner self and
carefully bring out the last eighteen words.
Give the world love, compassion, caring, understanding, and a great
wish of finding God within themselves.
For then and only then shall we find peace.
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-Alan Jay Schneider