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Thank you to Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital

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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)

 

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