Senior Chief Dennis John Swanson USN-Ret 10Dec1958-5Aug2008 (Picture taken in May 2008 during his final battle, with cancer.) I know of life that so few understand; I know a love that, all of time, has spanned; I have a Father that will not abuse; though He's perfect, He still lets me choose. Though I do not choose always as I should, He works all things together for His good. And though another's choice may do me wrong, with time, the same contributes to His song. I may not understand why I'm in pain, but the reason, someday, I will gain. And, if I don't find out before That Day, Perfection will delete it anyway! I may not like my circumstances now, and God can take the "What for?" and the "How?!" But time continues to instruct this man that I am in the center of His Plan! The pain--for it is seen and heard and felt... and something each day is unfairly dealt! But if everything was to be "fair," the pages of His Word would all be bare! I'm grateful for my lot--however bleak. I know that God and I so freely speak. And I know He is in complete control: my Father and the Lover of my soul! Jim Busby