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www.detroitshriners.com July 2018 Detroit Shriners Magazine Larry Leib Imperial Outer Guard Photography by: Don Kincheloe FROM ORIENTAL GUIDE Saturday August 11th, 2018 2018 Moslem Officers Noon - 5:00PM Doors open at 11:00AM Mike Zelmanski Bob O’Brien Jeff Geske Ray Moore Kenric Knecht Mike Zelmanski Potentate Chief Rabban Assistant Rabban High Priest and Prophet Oriental Guide 313-806-9475 586-381-8787 248-643-0366 586-909-5587 734-674-6502 110 GUNS RAFFLED $500 CASH PRIZES PLUS TEN Robert Pate P.P. 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Detroit Shriners now on: Deadline for August Issue - July 1, 2018 Visit www.ShrineOutdoors.com Must be 16 years of age to enter. For Moslem Shriners General Fund, Continuing to improve our magazine mailings we are Call 248-569-2900 not deductible as a charitable contribution. requesting article deadlines for the first of each month. MESSAGE FROM OUR POTENTATE Sean English ................... the Journey Continues Sean English ................... the Journey Continues For me to be out there meant the world to me,” says the Purdue-bound senior. “And to do what I actually wanted to do, finish, meant even more.” Mitch Albom article of May 6, 2018 The next day, Sean went to his prom. I lost my leg ... I didn't lose my life' Thirteen months after nearly dying on the side of the road? A new leg? A track race? A prom? There are a lot of ways you can go after an event like that. Bitterness is one. Depression is Do we ever truly appreciate the resilience of the human spirit? another. Anger. Self-doubt. Questioning God or the universe. An unintended commencement speech Sean English, who was a track star at U-D Jesuit, never attached to any of those. Instead, he remembers an air of positivity beginning to settle over him as he lay in the hospital, I said that I had heard the best commencement speech of the year. It came by accident, when I asked Sean to reflect even amidst six surgeries to repair a broken pelvis, broken legs, and to amputate his on what had happened, and what he would say to all the people out there if given a chance. right leg below the knee. Robert O’Brien Here is what he said. Imagine it; perhaps, being spoken before a football field’s worth of young, impressionable “I just remember sitting in the hospital room and hearing the news of Dr. Ray’s death,” he graduates: recalls. “Every day I just remember her name and what she gave, which was the ultimate Potentate sacrifice — her life — to do what she was doing for a living, which was helping others. I “The accident I had completely reshaped my outlook on life. It strengthened my faith and me as a human being. I now always keep that in the back of my head. cherish every moment. “Sure, you could say I lost my leg,” he adds, “but you could also say I didn’t lose my life.” "I had a metamorphous…And Dr. Cynthia Ray’s name now carries me along… Instead, he reconstructed his high school existence one-step at a time, with some new elements. Grueling rehab, five times “I think about that accident often. But I never think about why did I stop? Or should I have kept driving? I think about, a week. A prosthetic leg, which took time to get used to. A new girlfriend, who helped him on his journey. OK, that could have been my girlfriend in that (turned-over) car, or my grandma, or my mom, it could have been someone very important to me. And the guilt that I would have had for the rest of my life if I had just driven by when I He eventually returned to school. In April he attended, the sentencing of the young man who changed his life, Keith could have done something would have outweighed any physical pain that I’ve had to deal with. Martin, who, a week before his sentencing, was caught drinking beer in his car outside a casino, a violation of his probation. “So I would rather do what I did, and lose my leg, than to live with that guilt… Despite that, despite all he had gone through, despite the six- to 12-year sentence a judge ordered for Martin, English said “I mean, life can always be worse. You can go to your local hospital and see people in positions much worse than what he forgave the young man. He said he was pulling for him. He said, “I’m in your corner…I’m really rooting for you.” you’re experiencing. So you should always remember to be grateful for that. And a month later, last Wednesday, here was Sean English, whose father, he says, once qualified for the Olympic track “Also, life is way too short to hold grudges. That brother that you haven’t been talking to for years, or that friend that trials, lining up for one last 400-meter race for his high school. you don’t talk to anymore because you had a falling out, honestly, life is way too short and you never know when it’s going to be taken away. You should never leave a (bad) conversation with a question of ‘was that the last conversation “I always told everyone I’d be back on the track,” he says. “But I didn’t know when.” I’ll ever have with that person?... Wearing his father’s old high school jersey, Sean embarked on his lap. Halfway through, the pain was significant. He “I know all this is easier said than done, but those are the kind of things that I hold onto now, and will for the rest of my wasn’t sure he would make it. But with the cheers of his family and his high school teammates urging him on, he came life. And I hope everyone else can as well.” around another curve of life, this time with a more glorious finish. He fell into his parents’ embrace, shedding tears. He told his father, “I did it.” That’s a speech. That’s a life lesson. Sean English will not speak at his high school graduation. (“The valedictorians do that,” he jokes. “I didn’t get one of those spots.”) But that’s OK. Sometimes the best lessons at a high school graduation don’t come from the podium. Sometimes they are sitting in the stands, just grateful to be there. Until we meet again………………….. Bob O'Brien Potentate FROM CHIEF RABBAN Detroit Shriners If, by some happenstance, we would all decide to stop and reflect on our 2018 Summer Concert Series Masonic and Shrine journeys that we have been involved with over the years, we can all trace the origin of that path that took us from our 3rd CD Sales Benefitting SHC Degree to when we crossed the Hot Sands of the Desert in an almost identical manner. Throughout that journey, we were introduced to the “Science of Morality, Veiled in Allegory and Illustrated by Symbols” and we now see these symbols as we go about our daily lives in a myriad of locations. However, during those journeys, one of the almost mystical figures that has been forever engrained within us is and will forever be, the The Sign-Up Genius QR Codes below are Live, and Goat. We have been threatened with meeting it, riding it, eating it, and we ask that you use these codes rather than emailing basically, may have been forced to run away from it. Usually, all of it in good fun….. Jeff Geske correspondence directly. However, as we continue to ride that meandering goat, it is that inability to force it to Chief Rabban stray from the path that is often what is holding us or our fraternity back. That is the reason the path appears to be worn down and has become boring and stagnant like being in a maze Foreigner where the exit is impossible to find.