Your Dying Spouse 504 - You And What Army?

This will be short, as I spent most of last night shrieking in pain, and fighting off Jesus, who had dropped by to escort me Home.

"Yeah, JC, you and what army?"

Barb lost a few hours of sleep, trying to calm a madman whom pain pushed beyond the edge of reason.

Still, it was better than last time; the thing happened just before she got home from work, and Barb found me with a steel bar in hand, ready to fight off the Lord and all His Angels.

Maybe God thinks that I'm done here; I don't.

I have a wife to hold up in prayer, and to support as she builds the life that she will have without me. I have to teach her the way of the dogs, so that they don't overwhelm her.

I have friends to encourage, and to love.

I have dogs to cuddle when they're feeling sick, and when they get old, and they're scared of the thunderstorms they could once scare away with their furious barking.

This is my post; this is my meaning.

I'm not saving the last bullet for myself, because I still have a knife, and when its blade is broken, I will pick up the nearest rock.

And I still have fists, and nails, and teeth.

Heaven can wait.

I've been asked by my anguised wife, WHY? Why do this to yourself?

Simple. I'm doing it for you, so that you will remember down the years that while I may have lost, I never gave up.

I'm in this fight to whatever bloody end, and then...don't count me out.

For I will rise again.

Music from Paul McCartney and Wings, with the original video of Band On The Run. It's fun!

Please pardon my slow response to comments. I do my best, and your comments are really precious to me. Barb is answering many of them now. I'm running on fumes, if you don't mind a macho metaphor.

I'm grateful for the energy to have written this. I'm so glad Barbara's stepped in for many of my posts. I'm really not doing well at all.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

If you can, please do leave a comment. I am trying to answer all, and I am failing, but please know this - I read and treasure each one.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.