Sharing the Good Stuff Around
Trudy W. Schuett
Some time in the first week of October, a technician looked at my mammogram and said, “Well, looks like that ol’ gal has a problem.”
Whereupon my doctor was alerted.
When she called me herself, I knew something was up. By the time she told me she’d made me an appointment with a surgeon, I was in a panic and stayed that way until the 24th.
My minister activated a prayer chain, and the few friends and family I told about it were all pulling for me.
The afternoon of the 26th I got the results back: “Normal,” said the surgeon’s nurse.
One of the few times in this life I ever heard the word and didn’t laugh, even a little bit.
Nothing ironic about it this time.
So I got on the phone and told everybody who was waiting to hear, and right then I decided I’d do what I could to share my good fortune and blessings.
You can help, and by so doing, some of that blessing will rub off on you. Even if you don’t believe in prayer, surely you’d believe that wishing someone well was a good thing. So it doesn’t even require prayer if you’re not so inclined.
This has already started to work, as a lifelong friend with a rare form of liver cancer has started to turn the corner, when everybody thought it was hopeless.
So I’ll ask that you start with fellow blogger Andrew Ian Dodge, and ask the man upstairs, your higher power, or whatever or whomever send you prayers to bless him with healing energies. Or just wish him well.
Then go to our hosts, Dean and Rosemary, and do the same just because they are excellent people, and proceed outward with the other Contributing Editors at Dean’s World, the commenters, and readers. Stop whenever you figure you’re done.
I guarantee you will feel better yourself, just for participating. This may not change the world, but at least our little corner of it will be brighter for a moment.
Thank you for helping! May you likewise be blessed. Or, please accept my good wishes. It’s all good.
I was struck by what you wrote, and believe in prayer very much, though I sometimes forget that I do. What a blessed relief that you got a clean bill of health. The "debates" about "God," leave me unmoved and confused. Why debate that which is unknowable and can only be experienced, or not?
What you wrote made me think of a tiny stanza in a poem cycle of Czeslaw Milosz:
Do ut des
He felt thankful, so he couldn't not believe in God.
Praying for the Esmay family, and have told Dean I am full of faith that they will find their way back.
Cancer doesn't worry me at all, many of the modern treatments do though, and I personally wouldn't pursue them, based on my own studies and experiments regarding cancer. (If I had cancer, - and I've been trying to develop a domesticated form of cancer in myself for years now, but it has to my knowledge not worked thus far - and recommended chemotherapy I would tell them, "thanks but you can go straight to hell please. If I want that kinda thing I'll just chew cyanide.") I think modern medicine has a lot of things wrong regarding cancer, especially in relation to the immune system. I've never understood the medicinal or scientific or biological or genetic logic in decimating the immune system in order to kill cancer when if the immune system is functioning properly then it suppresses cancer. But people with compromised immune systems are far more likely to contract cancer, and so then the best way to fight cancer is to destroy the immune system to do it? It's like freaking nuking Kansas or blanketing all available fertile soil in it with chemical poisons in order to fight an army that's invading Kansas. The very idea makes me laugh with the juvenile pretensions, but then again much of modern science makes me laugh. (I have nothing against science by the way, God knows I'm involved in it at many different levels, it's just that so many of the modern paradigms are so ridiculous that most myopic grade scholars can see right through them without much eye-strain. But that's neither here nor there, just fomenting for a different day.)
By the way if anyone here wants to pray for my wife then that'll be appreciated.
I've very glad though Trudy that things worked out well for ya. But even if it had been cancer I wouldn't let that freak you out or lead you to make rash decisions. Never make an important decision when you are emotional, I tell everyone that all the time. Emotions make good motivators, but they make very poor leaders or decison makers. In any case it is good that God was with you, and he would have been in any case. My congratulations as well.
Godspeed.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.