Dedication For Linda

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I was asked to write something to be inscipted on a yearly achievement award. These words grace the award given to the individual who embraces these qualities. The award is given in honor for a nurse who worked on our unit who died while trying to help another life during an ice storm. She stopped to help a person who's car had slipped off the highway and flipped. She was struck and killed while trying to help the person stuck in the overturned car by another car which lost control.

Dedication For Linda

Dedication For Linda

 

We have learned that heroes are people who do

what has to be done, when it needs to be done, regardless

of the consequences.  That dedication is not what others

expect of you, it is what you can give to others, and destiny

is not a matter of choice, it is not to be wanted for,

it is a thing to be achieved, and even when our hands

will work no longer, the works of our hands will still

continue to keep on working.  We will take difficulties

and make ourselves strong. We do not limit our challenges,

but challenge our limits. We do not say if I could, I would,

we say if I can, I will. We do not work for recognition,

but will do work worthy of recognition.

We will observe which way our heart draws us,

and then choose that way with all our strength.

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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