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I've wondered if I would ever post another thought here...

So, here I am, laid up after surgery, with no "I don't have time" excuse anymore.

I have certainly allowed the busy nature of life to keep me from writing, and in many ways, to keep me from doing the things worth writing about.  This morning I first go to facebook instead of scripture, but God gets my attention anyway, through Emma's facebook status.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12)

I immediately recognize His voice.

A slow deep breath...  Be joyful in hope

Another slow deep breath...  patient in affliction

breathe in and out... faithful in prayer

Be joyful in hope

Hope... Lord, I have much to feel hopeful about.  Surgery went well, I am going to get better, I will run again, play basketball again...

I continue to breathe in the joy of hope, and express my gratitude for so many blessings.

patient in affliction

my first thought is poor me, laid up here, afflicted from surgery, barely able to walk, sitting all day.  Poor afflicted me... all I need within hands reach, a glass of water, a granola bar, a mac book, the remote control, a wonderful wife who brings me everything I need.  Maybe I would understand afflicted better if I were in Haiti with the threat of cholera, or in Uganda with the threat of HIV.  Forgive me Lord for thinking I am afflicted...

faithful in prayer

Okay, Great Physician, I see You want to use your knife on me, to cut into me with those words.  Cut away, and pull back the skin.  

reveal...   

remove...  

repair...  

Do your surgery on me.