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Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents
Death's Perspective: How Terminal Diagnoses Reset Our Priorities
What would you focus on if you knew your time was limited? Regina Swarn tackles this profound question in a special Father's Day bonus episode that moves beyond simple celebration to explore the intersection of love, loss, and living with intention.
Regina opens with touching reflections on her own father, Mr. Charlie—a quiet man whose inner strength and devotion to family left an indelible mark on her life. Through personal stories of her father who passed in 2007, she illustrates how we often fail to fully appreciate our loved ones until they're gone. This Father's Day message extends beyond biological dads to honor all men who show up with love and commitment for their families.
The heart of this episode centers on a powerful observation: when people receive terminal diagnoses, their priorities instantly transform. Petty grievances, gossip, and interpersonal conflicts suddenly seem meaningless. Regina challenges listeners: why wait for a "death sentence" to gain this clarifying perspective? Drawing from experiences with family members who battled cancer, she highlights how stress and negativity can contribute to illness, while offering practical wisdom about living more consciously.
Regina's authentic, conversational style creates an intimate space for contemplating mortality not as something morbid, but as a lens that brings life's true priorities into sharp focus. Rather than believing in karma, she emphasizes that we "reap what we sow," encouraging listeners to cultivate compassion and positivity in their daily interactions.
If you've ever caught yourself trapped in cycles of stress, resentment or gossip, this episode offers a gentle but firm redirect toward a more meaningful approach to living. Connect with Regina at swarnregina@gmail.com and watch for her upcoming live recording that promises more of her signature blend of life wisdom and heartfelt conversation.
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Hi there, I'm Regina Swarn. Welcome back to a bonus episode of Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents. I'll go ahead and give you a place. You can contact me. Write to me at swarnregina at gmailcom. At gmailcom, I want to talk about three things today. I'm going to make it very, very brief. I want to talk about life, love and happy Father's Day. Life, love and happy Father's Day. I'd like to go ahead and say happy, happy Father's Day to all of the wonderful dads around the world, because, although there may be a lot of dads who are not so good or who are bad or bad bad dads there are equally just as many who are so good, family men who love their family, who would do anything for their family and their wives.
Speaker 1:I think often of my own dad, mr Charlie. He was a man's man. I'm telling you this man was. He was quiet. He was a quiet man. He wasn't a man that talked a lot, he was quiet. But I tell you this, he had a strength inside that made him rule over everything in a good way. He was really good to his family. He loved his kids. He loved his wife. I had the best daddy in the world.
Speaker 1:Lost him back in April of 2007. I'll never forget it, I'll never. People in our lives and we think that they're going to be here forever, but they're not here forever. That's why, when they're here, we need to love and cherish them and cherish their lives, so we won't have to look back and write a whole lot of stuff about people that you know you wasn't close to, but yet you tend to love a person in death so much more because you really sometimes wasn't there for them in life. That happens very often, I see that so often. But I'm so glad my sister Laura, I'm so glad we were there for my dad, my mom and my dad. I'm so glad we were there for my parents the end of their lives, the beginning of their lives, the middle part of their lives and I just miss my daddy so much, so, so, so much, and sometimes I just want to call him and need help with this and that, or just want to call and talk to him, and I can't do that. I miss him so much.
Speaker 1:I want to take this moment also to send out a shout out of love to my wonderful friend, photographer Stephen Paul. Steve, I can feel your pain. Steve lost his dad and I'm just taking this time to encourage him, because we all need, we all can use encouragement. So I'm taking this time to encourage my friend, stephen Paul. Our loved ones are not here with us, but they never, ever die as long as we keep them in our heart. Never, ever, die, ever. I just want to encourage you, steve. Your dad was a sweet, wonderful man. He was just so sweet. Yeah, I'll never forget when I was doing my podcast a couple years ago and his birthday was on the same day of the podcast and I wished him happy birthday and Steve told me that they were out to dinner and how much his dad appreciated that. So, yeah, it's gonna be all right, darling, it's going to be alright.
Speaker 1:I want to talk now about love and life. We go through this life worrying, complaining, talking about one another. What do you think people do when they find out that they're going to die? They get some kind of incurable disease and they find out that they are going to die, that they got very limited time here Three months, six months, a year, a month when the doctor gives them up, nothing else they could do. What do you think people do? Most everybody I've ever known the last thing they're thinking about is who said what and who treated them this way and mad at this one and mad at that one. Very few people still are thinking about that when they get that death sentence. Very few. You got some that still gonna have hate in their heart no matter what. But very few are thinking about that. But you know what they're thinking about. They, excuse me, they are thinking about they only got a little time left here On this life. In this life, one of the first things they want to do Is to want to make it right with the Lord. Yeah, that's one of the main things they do. They're not sitting around Worrying about or mad at this one or mad at that one, talking about little frivolous stuff, but instead they're thinking about Having their houses in order, getting themselves prepared for the unknown, because when you're about to die, you don't know what. So you want to be prepared just in case. Say, you don't believe in heaven or hell, but then a lot of them still want to be prepared just in case.
Speaker 1:I've seen some of the most evil people repent at the end. At the end, nobody's laying around thinking about who said this, who said what, how somebody's treating them. Nobody is thinking like that, not in their right mind, they're not is thinking like that, not in their right mind, they're not. But you want to get it right. So why not take this time? Because we don't know how long we got here. You may not have been given a death sentence of six weeks or a month or or a year or whatever, but you don't know how long you got here regardless.
Speaker 1:So I say, take the time that you got here, practice love, love in life, love, practice love when people it is so hard, when people say things to me sometimes and some stupid things that they do, I find myself I react to it. Then I have to go and I have to repent to myself, to my Lord, in private, because these people make me so angry about things. Or in private, because these people make me so angry about things. At the end of your life, when you know you're going to die or you've been given up to die, you got cancer or something you are not thinking about all these things. Why not use that same strategy, take that same feeling in life, because you don't again know where death is. Get rid of all the frivolous anger. And he did, she did and she makes me sick.
Speaker 1:I see old women sometimes standing around talking about people. I see this. I want to tell you guys something Cancer is mean. I'm speaking of cancer because I lost several family members to cancer. They were in remission, everything was fine, and then it came back and in one of the cases, because the person was just around with a little bit of stress, I see a lot of stress. Stress will take you. Stress is one part of one part, big part of cancer. Stress is one part of cancer. Stress is Stress is, guys, and when you go around here with things in your heart and you're talking about people and you're, oh my God, oh my God, just to my friends who have been given a sentence of death to cancer or whatever, and you're in remission right now, please travel forth and going forward. Use this strategy right here.
Speaker 1:Practice love and loving life and loving, just be compassionate about life as if it was your last day on earth. Be compassionate, live and love and practice love. Because I don't believe a lot of people may not agree with this, but I don't believe in karma. People like to say karma, oh, karma is going to do this, karma, this. I believe in you. Reap what you plant, you reap what you sow. That's what I believe in. You hardly ever hear me say karma. Hardly ever, if ever at all, because I believe that you reap what you sow. And again, a lot of people don't agree with what I say. So it's okay, because this is my opinion.
Speaker 1:But going for practice, love and life, get out of these little horrid groups where you're talking about people as soon as the person you're talking to, that person, as soon as they walk away, their name is in your mouth. I see older women and older men stand around and gossip and talk about other people, my lord. But when you're on that deathbed, when you're given that death sentence of six months to live, one year to live, one month to live, you're not thinking along those lines. You notice people that's about to die. They don't think like that. Use that same mentality going forth in life and watch. You'll be stress-free and life will be so much better for you, so much better, so much better.
Speaker 1:I just want to speak on that today. I really just want to speak on Happy Father's Day and loving life. I hope this helps someone. I'm Regina Swarn. Thank you so much for listening. You can contact me at swornregina at gmailcom, and I do have a live recording coming up, so be on the lookout. Okay, my time is up. All right, it's up, it's up, thank you. Happy Father's Day, dad. Happy Father's Day, be safe.