Where Did The Month Go?
No record better reveals the gap in my January, 2010 life than my blog site. I started the year and then, <puff>, the month was over.
Where did it go?
Two old hernias seized control on my body system and early one morning I found myself riding an ambulance to the emergency room at Boulder Community Hospital.
Thereafter I met numerous dedicated medical people who plied their training and experience to the task of saving my life and restoring my health.
Here's to everyone there, especially Dr. Charlie Jones, the world's greatest general surgeon. His quick and accurate diagnosis, followed at once by his surgery skills, again saved my life. Three cheers!
I had met Dr. Jones five or six years ago with the same life-saving needs, just arising from different causes.
Correct mention of this 2010 medical event must be made: I remain alive, sober, sane, and useful by the grace of a loving God who often works through people. They are not gods; they just do his bidding.
There were such folks in my life during January 2010. Sure they all weren't great surgeons, but they formed a core team (dare I call them a God Squad?) who helped me carry on.
They were from down the street and from the far-away Czech Republic; from Harvard and from Front Range Community College; from Kenya and from Alaska. They all added something essential to my life and I now have a small part of them in me, with me, always.
Dr. Charlie Jones was the captain, but they all were mates on God's ship.
I pray that you too have a Doctor Charlie in your life. Unless you were born with saint-like spirituality, you might make some human mistakes in your life as I have done in mine. If that occurs, we all need a Charlie Jones and crew to stand by and help give us another chance.
I am grateful to be alive, sober, sane and useful today. When I squeeze out the adjectives, the punctuation, and all the excess verbage, I have left only the loving God who gets all the credit.
With Respect & Gratitude,
Tom
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"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
– Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott, the beloved American author, is best known for her semiautobiographical novel, Little Women, which was made into a movie five different times. Born in 1832 near Philadelphia, she grew up in Massachusetts. Her family lived in the genteel poverty depicted in her fiction. She wrote lurid stories anonymously to bring in money but gained fame under her own name with young adult novels, which held readers with their warm characterizations and simple, engaging style. She died in 1888.
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