June 8, 2019
June 7, 2019
Ticker
So yesterday was my testing for the old ticker.
Short story, heart is just fine!
Rest of the body, not so much.
First up, they could not take me, due to my breathing.
So, they put me on a breathing treatment.
Cleared up the lungs!
But, the hospital had an Emergency Room demand for my cardiologist's skills!
So now came the wait for 4 hours!
Poor doctor, he had to be exhausted!
The nurses whom prepped me amused themselves.
Heather, whom I think like me, busier herself drawing hearts allover my foot!
Very cute.
So, they got me in and set up.
The assistants were hilarious!
We laughed so much!
Poor jokes ruled!
Since they did not knock me out:
I got to see it all
All the scans
All the dialog
And all the bad jokes!
I almost lost it when one of the technicians commented,
"We overshot, but found some ear wax!!"
Everyone had a chuckle!
Net result of 12 hours in the hospital:
Heart is just fine
Prior stents look great
But, I am horribly anemic!
And no one said anything
To anyone across months of blood tests!
So no one put my anemia up with:
All of the heart failures
All of the times I pass out
The utter lack of energy!
So, working on the anemia next!
Short story, heart is just fine!
Rest of the body, not so much.
First up, they could not take me, due to my breathing.
So, they put me on a breathing treatment.
Cleared up the lungs!
But, the hospital had an Emergency Room demand for my cardiologist's skills!
So now came the wait for 4 hours!
Poor doctor, he had to be exhausted!
The nurses whom prepped me amused themselves.
Heather, whom I think like me, busier herself drawing hearts allover my foot!
Very cute.
So, they got me in and set up.
The assistants were hilarious!
We laughed so much!
Poor jokes ruled!
Since they did not knock me out:
I got to see it all
All the scans
All the dialog
And all the bad jokes!
I almost lost it when one of the technicians commented,
"We overshot, but found some ear wax!!"
Everyone had a chuckle!
Net result of 12 hours in the hospital:
Heart is just fine
Prior stents look great
But, I am horribly anemic!
And no one said anything
To anyone across months of blood tests!
So no one put my anemia up with:
All of the heart failures
All of the times I pass out
The utter lack of energy!
So, working on the anemia next!
June 5, 2019
Yesterday
So I had heart surgery.
I am expecting God is not done with me yet.
So, in all likely hood I survived.
My heart had become quite a problem since the February heart attack.
My walking was limited to 120 feet on a good day,
Only five or six steps on bad days.
My lungs were continually filling with fluid,
The heart too weak to draw it off.
Monday in gym class they pulled me off the machines.
I could only do 90 seconds!
And mr heart rate was just a tick below a full on heart attack!
Yeah, I was whipped!
So, whatever they end up doing has got to be an improvement!
If it is an easy procedure, I will be out to day.
If it turns into open heart surgfery,
Well I will get back to you in a few weeks!
'til then ...
I am expecting God is not done with me yet.
So, in all likely hood I survived.
My heart had become quite a problem since the February heart attack.
My walking was limited to 120 feet on a good day,
Only five or six steps on bad days.
My lungs were continually filling with fluid,
The heart too weak to draw it off.
Monday in gym class they pulled me off the machines.
I could only do 90 seconds!
And mr heart rate was just a tick below a full on heart attack!
Yeah, I was whipped!
So, whatever they end up doing has got to be an improvement!
If it is an easy procedure, I will be out to day.
If it turns into open heart surgfery,
Well I will get back to you in a few weeks!
'til then ...
Clarification
Okay, so there is no mistake:
I have long known many Mormons.
Few as personal friends.
A few were as broken as I so we relied heavily on one another.
Some were good Mormans,
Some were good Christians, but poor Mormons.
I have long held that,
If Christians behaved more like the Mormon Church,
There would be far fewer problems for Christians!
The LDS Church supports their communities in good times and bad.
Not so the Christians!
With massive flooding throughout America's heartland,
Where is the Christian Church?
Not on site being helpful feeding, clothing and sheltering the victims!
Yeah, the LDS Church does ....
To our shame!
So, I am not horrified she has joined a group which is opposed to Jesus' message.
Cause I know if she will follow those whom do know Jesus,
She will follow eventually as well!
So, Kris is not anti-Mormon,
Kris is pro-Jesus,
And has been for many decades!
So, mother desiring to be a Mormon does not horrify me.
I know a few in that
I have long known many Mormons.
Few as personal friends.
A few were as broken as I so we relied heavily on one another.
Some were good Mormans,
Some were good Christians, but poor Mormons.
I have long held that,
If Christians behaved more like the Mormon Church,
There would be far fewer problems for Christians!
The LDS Church supports their communities in good times and bad.
Not so the Christians!
With massive flooding throughout America's heartland,
Where is the Christian Church?
Not on site being helpful feeding, clothing and sheltering the victims!
Yeah, the LDS Church does ....
To our shame!
So, I am not horrified she has joined a group which is opposed to Jesus' message.
Cause I know if she will follow those whom do know Jesus,
She will follow eventually as well!
So, Kris is not anti-Mormon,
Kris is pro-Jesus,
And has been for many decades!
So, mother desiring to be a Mormon does not horrify me.
I know a few in that
June 4, 2019
Stepping Carefully
So, crazy mother called up on Friday to invite me to a Baptism service being held for her at the local Mormon Ward.
I told her to tell me the place and time, and I would be there .....
My mother's family has a long history with the Latter Day Saints. Stretching back to the its expansion into Wales 1849 and Scotland 1852!
Those families migrated to America and then walked to Salt Lake City.
With hand trucks filled with all their earthly goods.
Many died:
Struck by lightening
Drown in floods
Killed by falling trees
Yeah, America was a dangerous place for the naive.
Mother, once she graduated from college, was to foster a hate-hate relation with the Mormons.
My great grandmother Spencer was a missionary to the Umatilla Indian Tribe, outside of Le Grande, Oregon for 40 years!
So, although I was raised an atheist, I was well schooled in Mormon thought!
And now mother is willing to bury her demons and join them?
Huhmmmmmmmm ..... Okay .....
On the one hand mother is 82 and quite lonely.
The Church members have been visiting her regularly.
Mother's trailer needs real work.
The young men have been helping her rebuild it.
Mother wants to belong to a church.
They pick her up, take her to the various functions.
So, she has joined them!
(what ever!)
I always said she was a Southern Baptist, not a Christian - same as most Baptist's I have known!
So, she is still not a Christian, sigh ...
The baptism went well.
Certainly she is one of the oldest members of the church!
Afterwards, I hosted a luncheon for her at the local Mexican place.
I have to admit the ones I met are probably not the good Mormons,
As their views were very reformation based.
But, once the Book of Mormon was brought up, it was company line the whole way!
I really liked one of the guys,
I dare say we will be friends,
If he can live with a non-believer around him!
I told her to tell me the place and time, and I would be there .....
My mother's family has a long history with the Latter Day Saints. Stretching back to the its expansion into Wales 1849 and Scotland 1852!
Those families migrated to America and then walked to Salt Lake City.
With hand trucks filled with all their earthly goods.
Many died:
Struck by lightening
Drown in floods
Killed by falling trees
Yeah, America was a dangerous place for the naive.
Mother, once she graduated from college, was to foster a hate-hate relation with the Mormons.
My great grandmother Spencer was a missionary to the Umatilla Indian Tribe, outside of Le Grande, Oregon for 40 years!
So, although I was raised an atheist, I was well schooled in Mormon thought!
And now mother is willing to bury her demons and join them?
Huhmmmmmmmm ..... Okay .....
On the one hand mother is 82 and quite lonely.
The Church members have been visiting her regularly.
Mother's trailer needs real work.
The young men have been helping her rebuild it.
Mother wants to belong to a church.
They pick her up, take her to the various functions.
So, she has joined them!
(what ever!)
I always said she was a Southern Baptist, not a Christian - same as most Baptist's I have known!
So, she is still not a Christian, sigh ...
The baptism went well.
Certainly she is one of the oldest members of the church!
Afterwards, I hosted a luncheon for her at the local Mexican place.
I have to admit the ones I met are probably not the good Mormons,
As their views were very reformation based.
But, once the Book of Mormon was brought up, it was company line the whole way!
I really liked one of the guys,
I dare say we will be friends,
If he can live with a non-believer around him!
June 3, 2019
Life and Death
Been thinking a lot about life, since Christina's death.
That would be in the light of Paul's writings.
The problem is that our Western Culture is so far from Biblical truth, thanks to Greek culture, that to state the problem really is not going to be understood today, much at all!
How does one rectify the problem without landing solidly in piety! Which is condemned as sin by Jesus and several of the Apostles!
Life is what we know:
we can see it,
smell it,
taste it,
touch it.
We live it after-all!
We have a harder problem when we are required to abandon that understanding of life!
And that is exactly what Jesus requires us to do!
We are told to live by faith, not by sight!
That would be faith in God,
Not your 401-Ks!
So many in Christianity have bought into the Dave Ramsey school of unbalanced wealth!
"A little bit for God, a whole lot for me!"
"I am living the life of faith! And the dividends look great!"
But God told us to not go into debt,
Yet we are mostly all are in debt!
God told us our wealth is to be His, not ours!"
Yet we give a tenth, supposedly (we estimate 2% in our church!),
And then whine about it! .....
Something is out of square here!
If our lives are really to be His, in whole,
Not just in tenths!
Then what must change?
Well, you have to stop pursuing the almighty buck,
For starters!
You have to get out of debt!
No, property which is sellable is not a debt!
You have to lighten your possession load!
You must start living as a minimalist!
Our lives are to be a training exercise for our roles after death.
Christina's worldly consumed life started my thought process,
Then my thoughts drift to my best friend, Dutchman.
Consumed for the past twenty years by accumulation of wealth.
Numerous homes, in numerous countries, around the world,
And all that goes with the massive consumption of wealth!
Yeah, he is not receptive to this philosophical realignment!
Yet, there was a time,
Before marriage,
Before children,
Before everything,
When he stood with me,
Willing to risk life itself for the cause of Jesus!
More than once!
I wonder if the seeds of that young wild Irishman are still in there,
Waiting to take over once he loses all.
And then figures it out!
He must start living as a minimalist!
As must I!
sigh.....
That would be in the light of Paul's writings.
The problem is that our Western Culture is so far from Biblical truth, thanks to Greek culture, that to state the problem really is not going to be understood today, much at all!
How does one rectify the problem without landing solidly in piety! Which is condemned as sin by Jesus and several of the Apostles!
Life is what we know:
we can see it,
smell it,
taste it,
touch it.
We live it after-all!
We have a harder problem when we are required to abandon that understanding of life!
And that is exactly what Jesus requires us to do!
We are told to live by faith, not by sight!
That would be faith in God,
Not your 401-Ks!
So many in Christianity have bought into the Dave Ramsey school of unbalanced wealth!
"A little bit for God, a whole lot for me!"
"I am living the life of faith! And the dividends look great!"
But God told us to not go into debt,
Yet we are mostly all are in debt!
God told us our wealth is to be His, not ours!"
Yet we give a tenth, supposedly (we estimate 2% in our church!),
And then whine about it! .....
Something is out of square here!
If our lives are really to be His, in whole,
Not just in tenths!
Then what must change?
Well, you have to stop pursuing the almighty buck,
For starters!
You have to get out of debt!
No, property which is sellable is not a debt!
You have to lighten your possession load!
You must start living as a minimalist!
Our lives are to be a training exercise for our roles after death.
Christina's worldly consumed life started my thought process,
Then my thoughts drift to my best friend, Dutchman.
Consumed for the past twenty years by accumulation of wealth.
Numerous homes, in numerous countries, around the world,
And all that goes with the massive consumption of wealth!
Yeah, he is not receptive to this philosophical realignment!
Yet, there was a time,
Before marriage,
Before children,
Before everything,
When he stood with me,
Willing to risk life itself for the cause of Jesus!
More than once!
I wonder if the seeds of that young wild Irishman are still in there,
Waiting to take over once he loses all.
And then figures it out!
He must start living as a minimalist!
As must I!
sigh.....
June 1, 2019
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