God's Colouring Book

There's a scene in one of the Star Wars movies where our heroes are stuck in a watery trash compactor, and Luke Skywalker says that it could be worse.

There's a beast-bellow from the muck, and Han Solo says, "It's worse."

And then a slimy tentacle pulls Luke underwater, and the fun begins.

Yeah, it's worse. My voice is taken, and there's another metastasis, this one on my left humerus, which, when, you think about it, my being right-handed, is really kinda funny. Geddit?

Seriously, I can't raise my arm above waist level, and trying to put on a shirt is... interesting.

But I can still count it all joy. Yes, it hurts, yes, it's limiting, but there's something of a liberation in the pain, and in this durance vile. I can see beyond what used to be so important, so very solid... all of my ambitions and hopes and dreams.

I'm not denigrating them. They were worthwhile, but now I see that the good in them, good I will not see fulfilled in this life, is but the lines in a colouring book, to be filled in by God.

And meanwhile...

 Chihuahuas running this-a-way,

Chihuahuas running that,

with them there is hell to pay,

if you are a cat.

Chihuahuas running kitty down,

oh, kitty-cat is trapped!

And then they imitate the clown,

and kitty now is rapt

to see them bouncing in their play,

rolling, now, and once again,

and kitty cannot see the way

that their waggy tails remain

attached to them, the game all through,

and tries a grab on one or two.

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is DENY. Yeah, ok.

I would rather set aside,

and in point of fact deny

that I want to run and hide

from knowing that I'm soon to die.

I lie awake because of pain

that really truly will not stop,

and wonder how my mortal brain

can handle going o'er top

of the bar do ably writ

by poet-friend, Lord Tennyson,

how to smile, and be quit

of an earthly benison,

and letting go my hard-gripped rope

cast my soul upon Christ's hope.

Four minutes fifteen seconds. Maybe there's something to this one.

In respect to the science fiction intro, here's the funniest scene from any SF movie (it's from the underrated 'Star Trek Beyond').

Sylvia counts ice cream as all joy. Me too.