Musical Saturday Morning

Connections

I attended a lecture once, many decades ago, and the speaker made an interesting comment,
"If we could build a data base of everyone3 you know in the world, and the data for each of those people, you are only three people away from someone famous, nine from anyone on the planet."

We discussed this at length over lunch.  Just the thought of such a data base!  But is it possible?

So, I commented to a few about my health challenges.  Within 24 hours I was being buried in messages and calls!
Holy-Moly!

Your go years not hearing from anyone and then suddenly everyone is contacting me!  Even calls from people I have never heard of before!

A guy from 8th grade!  How did he hear, whom does he know that knows of me and my plight?  Too weird.
Hundreds of kids I have worked with through the years.  Humbling to even be remembered!
People I went to high school with.  I do not even remember them!
People I have never met, but just know of me through these posts.
Two offers for a kidney donation, but that is in the distant future - perhaps.z

WOW

Sure surprises me.  Whom would have thought anyone cared?
Based on my life, certainly not me!

So building a prayer base.
A support base.

Thank you God for letting me know I am not alone .......

Status

I am now pretty good.
A far cry better than last Friday!
Breathing is a good habit to have.

Been thinking on all I need to do:
Draft a new will
A living will
Code directives
Cremation services
Like I really want to address these issues!

sigh

In other news:
Derek, long time friend and past student,
Was almost crushed to death under a load of security fencing!
Should have been killed but iunstead
has the mother of all concussions!
and missing a large chunk over his left eye!

Prayers will be welcome for his healing and to calm his wife!
It will be a long haul for his concussion to heal!

Church In Conflict

(for some weird reason, this my fourth attempt to create this little post! too weurd!)

Lord knows I have been through more than my fair share of church splits!
My first church was called Grace and disintegrated two years later.
Second church I left due to a dispute over whether or not the Holy Spirit exits.
Third church died when the pastor died.
Fourth church chose to disagree over the paying of taxes and was sold by the government.
Fifth church went too far in adioppting the "gay" agenda and God removed His blessing.
Sixth church turned and lost its faith.
Seventh church has weathered its storms but holds together.
Though I fear for its future....

And the church at Philippi had its challenges.
Two women had started a fight ......

Philippians 4:1-3

Remember whose you are
We are all members of the same family.
We have the same goal.
We have the same eternity.

Don't ignore it
Don't be remember for your fighting!
We are called to unity,
Satan calls us to divisions!
Satan will do all it can to divide us!
Whatever the issue, get over it!

Help solve it
We need to helps with their issues.
Pray for unity.
Be svsilsble to help and pray!
Call for reconciliation.

Troubled

It has troubled my spirit mightily that I had a stroke, and never had any indication.
Conversely, it is yet another example of how I am not where I need to be.
No one actually notices me enough to see my brain crashed at some point.
Just a whole lot of self interests.

So, I have sought to try and figure this out,
When did this happen?

Not an easy task when I have complete amnesia from 2015 back.
Partial amnesia from 2017 back.
Yeah, those surgical meds really wipe me out!
But I do have faint echoes of what might be memories.
Just no ability to know if they are real.

The only real in my past is what I have written.
Letters, blogging, etc .
The only memory I have.
And there is no answer to be fiound.

sigh

Just lovely, no brain, no poain I guess!
LOL
And God can always remind me.
If it is important and needs to be remember

sigh

Dialysis

So, Kris, big needle whimp that I am - survived my first dialysis!
I really did not expect to.

The Northwest Kidney Center got me in on an emergency basis.
They had a full house!
Wow!
And they were amazed at how far I had gone without dialysis, almost apologetic!

They went over my medical history, medicines, etc.
Apologized again for the delay!
Hooked me up and ran me for three hours.
I did well.
I had lots of questions,
A few made them laugh,
But with no comfort in what we were doing ...

In all a six hour event.
My massive angst unfathomed by any but myself.
And like most irrational fears, there was no real basis for it.

But lots of prayers are always good.

Musical Saturday Morning

Not much in the way of video on this group, but they were awesome in their time!
They were much on vinyl than at a concert where they could barely be heard!