PATHWAY OF PAIN

Author: Helen Steiner Rice

 

If my days were untroubled and my heart always light,
Would I seek that fair land where there is no night?
If I never grew weary with the weight of my load,
Would I seek for God’s peace at the end of the road?

If I never knew sickness and never felt pain,
Would I search for a hand to help and sustain?
If I walked without sorrow and lived without loss
Would my soul seek solace at the foot of the cross?

If all I desired was mine day by day,
Would I kneel before God and earnestly pray?
If God sent no winter to freeze me with fear,
Would I yearn for the warmth of spring every year?

I ask myself these and the answer is plain,
If my life were pleasure and I never knew pain -
I’d seek God less often and need Him much less,
For God is sought more often in times of distress.

And no one knows God or sees Him as plain -
As those who have met Him on the "Pathway of Pain

November 2011 OBSTACLES

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.  Albert Schweitser

    I would like to apologize to my faithful readers for taking so long with these blogs, I have decided to do them monthly to get them up to date.

Dr. Rotstein's constant search for whatever has been making my liver counts so high, sent me for a abdominal cat-scan on Nov 8/11.

On November 10/11  my next appointment with Dr. Rotstein, the results were in and I have a narrowing in my main artery going into my liver.  They will be sending me to see a vascular surgeon to have this checked. At 6 pm I received a phone call from my Lung Transplant Coordinator to inform me that I have been taken off the list for transplant until this problem is solved (surgically I assumed)

I WAS DUMB-FOUNDED. I was focused mind and body on getting into my best personal shape so I could withstand the hardships that my body would be undertaking during  and after transplant.This news sent me for a loop. I was lost.  After a few days I talked with the coordinator and was told that I was to keep all my appointments and continue to go to physio three days a week.  So I pasted on a smile and continued like life was normal. Such is me.

Well, you know, what they say how bad news  happen in 3's. Our van broke down and it cost $615.00 to fix. Even though we don't use it a whole lot, just groceries and  it's sure is nice to go for a drive to escape the city every once in awhile. Sorry, just pisses my off when something happens that wasn't in the budget. Just part of life!