As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规) basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this ________ at work in people of all ________. For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about ________ with their new toys. But their ________ soon wears off and by January those ________ toys can be found put away in the basement. The world is full of ________ stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument(纪念碑) to someone’s ________ interest. When parents bring home a pet, their child ________ bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a short time, however, the ________ of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents. Adolescents(青少年) enter high school with great ________ but are soon looking forward to ________. The same is true of the young adults going to college. And then, how many ________, who now complain about the long drives to work, ________ drove for hours at a time when they first ________ their driver’s licenses? Before people retire, they usually ________ to do a lot of ________ things, which they never had ________ to do while working. But ________ after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes(消遣) become as boring as the jobs they ________. And, like the child in January, they go searching for new ________.

I am a father of two sons. I’m only 60 but when I was diagnosed (诊断) with lung cancer it ________ my world. My son was working in Holland and I got to ________ the news to him over a poor What’s App connection. He got enough that he went to his ________ and told him he wanted to ________ home. I spent the next three days trying to ________ him to tell him to finish out his contract. ________, he followed my advice and stayed another few weeks and finished out the ________.

When he came back by air, he and his brother came out from Alberta to BC. We spent the weekend ________ before I began radiation, which was our ________ time. I had no idea how this was going to play out. I had my legal ________ sorted by then and took the time to talk about it and what I wanted my ________ to look like.

And then I plunged into (开始) treatment. I’m one of the ________ ones. I never even lost my ________ in radiation. I won’t say I ________ through it. I was extremely tired, and even worse, the radiation ________ the swallow right out of my esophagus (食道).

The ________ I want to leave you with though is “Be ________”. If you have the ability to get to your father’s ________, then do it. My son came again three weeks ago to help me through the ________ in my life. After he had been here a couple of days, he said, “Dad you have never looked ________.” Words to warm my heart.

On June 17, my daughter gave me a new wallet as a Father’s Day present. It was a perfect gift considering that my purse that had been used for nearly a decade was much_______. I took the opportunity as well to_______some cards, notes, or small pieces of paper in it that were no longer needed. As I_______out the old wallet, I was amazed at how much it held. Carefully I went through its_______piece by piece and moved them to their new home. As I was looking at them, I_______the organ donor card that I had signed nine years ago. _______, it hadn’t yet been called into use. Still, it felt good knowing that_______something should happen to me, I would be able to give another person a second chance of life.

As I_______the card into my new wallet, I started thinking about all the_______things we can donate to help others today. We can donate our time, our talents or our wisdom. We can________our kindness. We can________our light into the darkness. We can donate every bit of love and joy inside of us. And the greatest thing of all is that when we do, we________that we have even more to share than when we started.

Maybe you wish to________an organ donor card so you can give something after you die. But don’t be afraid to give something now while you are still________. Be a donor. Make your entire life a gift to others. Donate all your________things to make this world better and brighter place.