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Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Lens

It is in dying that we move to eternal life.

Like most people, I paid lip service to that phrase for most of my life. "Sure," I said. "Makes sense. Have to be reborn, you know, to understand everything. Uh-huh."

I took pride and pleasure in my own strength, and in my own rude health, and thought that sun would never set.

And I thought that if id did set, well, I'd somehow magically get it.

It's dark now. And I somehow, magically, got it.

Ten years ago a surgery gone wrong set loose a chain of events that have led to this day, when something inside my gut is slowly killing me, to the accompaniment of pain that I would never have believed anyone, much less me, could have endured.

It was the best thing that ever happened to me. It made my faith complete.

I know God cares. I hope He'll heal me, but that depends on whether or not it lies within His purpose. Since I don't know His purpose, I don't know what'll happen.

Hasn't happened yet - but every day He's given me the strength, and comfort to go on. It would be easy to give up, mentally - to just say, "It's over. Nothing to aim at, because obviously, there's no time."

Forget the dreams you had when you were healthy.

But I didn't. And I don't. I'm generally a pretty grim person, when you get to know me, and not a Mary-Poppins-Sunshine-on-my-Shoulders-Everything-is-Beautiful sort of guy. I studied war for years, and it studied me.

I haven't given up, and I'm so surprised! It's God, of course.

There's a good chance that I'll be unable to get pain medication in the near future. new laws require expensive blood tests every three months - and not having insurance, there's just no way.

But God will provide the strength to get through that, too.

I wouldn't have been able to see, and live all of this, if my health had stayed intact.

Thank God it didn't.

3 comments:

  1. Darn it, Andrew, why do you have to be so freaking right????

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    1. Don't know, but thanks!

      When I've got 365 of these things I'll put them into an e-book.

      Working title, "Mongo Speaks"

      Catchy?

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