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To the editor: On behalf of my family, I am writing to thank Dr.
Kasa and the staff of Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital for the
stellar care they gave our father and grandfather, Pastor William
Adam, during his last days.
The entire staff treated their profession as a vocation and
calling to public service.
During our vigil, I often reminded myself that the words from our
family's faith tradition, "save" and "salvation," are derived from
the Latin word "salvus," meaning "to heal." For a week the hospital
was our home. And the entire staff provided healing to our family.
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For I saw an entire staff working to create a healthy (salvus)
human community centered in compassion, care, trust and the
respectful honoring of the spirit of God in all: those transcendent
values that give us meaning-centered lives. This no longer comes
naturally in our relentless, market-based, bottom-line culture. I
felt each and every person on the staff was affirming of the
spiritual dimension (I include agnostics and non-theists) of human
reality. As I sat by Dad, another phrase from our faith tradition
kept coming back to me: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven." Regardless of personal belief, the entire staff
embodied what I call, in my spiritual language, the kingdom's work
on earth.
Philip and Kathy Adam, David, Marie of Minneapolis, Minn.
Laura Adam of Houston, Texas
[Posted
February 03, 2011]
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(Obituary:
Rev. William W. Adam) |
