WAS HEAVEN STEVE JOBS LAST VIEW FROM EARTH? Steven Jobs represented many things to youthful dreamers. He was a visionary who could imagine the perfect outcome for a product or company, and was a legendary taskmaster in achieving that vision. He also maintained a youthful excitement. One can IMAGINE the always blue-jean clad STEVE EXPRESSING A JOYOUS PASSION for each new creation, from his first Macintosh to his first iPhone or iPad—after all his hard work, GASPING WOW WITH ENTHUSIASM. Still, one wonders, DID STEVE BELIEVE IN GOD when he reached the final junction of his track through life? Mona Simpson, STEVE’S SISTER, provided that insight with her eulogy at the small family funeral. She told how her brother, who had been put up for adoption at birth, had sought her out when she was twenty-five—he was about twenty-nine. She describes their first meeting. “We took a long walk. He felt like someone I’d pick to be a friend.” Yet, it was more than that, she says: “My whole life I’d been waiting for A MAN TO LOVE, who could love me…I MET THAT MAN AND HE WAS MY BROTHER.” The more they got to know each other, the deeper their bond grew. She remembers the day he enthusiastically phoned to say, “There’s this beautiful woman and she’s really smart and she has this dog and I’m going to marry her.” “What I learned from my brother’s death,” she continues, “was that character is essential: What he was, was how he died.” Mona takes us through the final hours of her brother’s life. “He called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us. When I arrived, he and his Laurene were joking together like partners who’d lived and worked together every day of their lives. He looked into his children’s eyes as if he couldn’t unlock his gaze.” Mona says that, “after a while, it was clear that he would no longer wake to us. His breathing changed. It became severe, deliberate, purposeful.” Steve looked at her and said, “he was so sorry we wouldn’t be able to grow old together as we’d always planned, THAT HE WAS GOING TO A BETTER PLACE.” This says something that should be underscored. Steven Jobs felt he was going to a BETTER PLACE. Mona then says, “Before embarking, he looked for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.” In a final expression of genuine enthusiasm—upon seeing something even greater than any Apple product he might have held in his lap—STEVE JOBS SPOKE HIS LAST WORDS: “ OH, WOW. OH, WOW. OH, WOW!” ••••• What did he see—as he looked into the distance? Was he seeing angels or the lights of Heaven beckoning him? There’s only one way for you to ever know. Choose the path to Heaven yourself; and when you get there, sit down and have a chat with him. If you’re a real Jobs fan, click to watch a different story ... THE STEVE JOBS GODWINK that changed how you use your computer: hulu/watch/374946#i1,p0,d2
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:50:00 +0000