Thank you Steve, for your nice comments - especially about Pope John Paul II.

Today I picked up a few magazines - Newsweek, Time and others published commemorative issues in honor of the Pope including awesome pictures that I never saw before. It was a joy reading so many tributes.

That's an great story you told. I don't think I can even begin to undestand the impact it must have had on you.

It did have quite an impact and that moment radically changed my life. His death brings it all back, and and once again my heart is filled with gratitude which gives me more courage to continue to do the work God has given me to do.

Thanks again for commenting. I appreciate it very much.

Liz



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Liz,

As a Protestant (Methodist), I've been highly critical at times in my life of the wealth and opulence of the pinnacle of organized religion, especially the Vatican.

That being said, I was still saddened by John Paul's death. I felt he did a very good job of working towards world peace, promoting understanding and tolerance between religions and vastly different ethnic groups, and most importantly maintaining a spirituality that trancended Catholicism and was directed towards people of all faiths.

Politics aside, these were all reasons I had a great deal of repect for him...

That's an great story you told. I don't think I can even begin to undestand the impact it must have had on you.

Thanks for sharing...