STILL ALIVE!

The story of one man’s survival of the Hawaiian Medical System…

Bahaha! Well, we still don’t know quite what this is but best case scenario in my feeble mind is that it’s an impacted infection that might be helped with antibiotics, although I’m more than sure that the real healing comes from the love and prayers sent by my friends.

I KNOW what that feels like!

And reading the Facebook comments from people made me cry in the Emergency ward in front of doctors and nurses, who sent a social worker over to make sure my mental health was un-impinged… If they only knew!

But I am always so moved by the response you show when I have asked for prayer that I can’t help my emotions; it has changed me so much for the better inside over the last few years that the experience is profound 

I believe that ‘ask and you shall receive’ is one of the fundamental principles built into us all, and that it matters, and most importantly, works!

I have proof after proof, especially lately, in every quarter of my life, and that is what has strengthened my own spirituality, and willingness to be God’s hands on earth, as many of you are.

The experience today also is a chance to talk about what is the worst part of any illness – our dread of what might happen because of it.

I saw that dread in so many faces when I was in the thick of treatment for cancer, and saw it for what it was – a major impediment to the ACTION needed to overcome the condition.

Because dread paralyzes.

It is a tool of many diseases, but if you have a mechanism to counter it, it is much easier to laugh in the face of illness.

I often play the part of my own observor, and through the day I often stop, and make sure I am in the here and now, instead of in the throes of anxiety about something that has not happened, which is what most fears are about – things that have not happened.

These ‘gut checks’ go a long way towards keeping me in a state of peace, and help me let go of any harmful tensions my muscles and solar plexus are clutching.

I put my attention directly on them, breathe deep into the area they are affecting, and imagine myself blowing out all their effects with the force of my exhale.

Another thing I do, as with this eye issue, is to imagine that I am filling up a little mental balloon with dread which is attached at the source of the problem. When it is full, I clip it at the source and watch it comically ppttthhhuupp itself away into nothingness, and the dread is gone.

Simple goofy stuff like that often works well!

And I certainly used it today when I felt dread rear it’s illusory head.

Our Creator has given us a million tools to deal with problems in our physical selves, and I’m sure you all have favorites too.

I’ll be darned if I’m going to carry around anything getting between me and perfect healing, as I understand it; so I will use every trick in the book and laugh at my former fears.

And my favorite piece of what must be ‘the full armour of God’ is that I know my friends will gang up on my fears too! All I have to do is ask.

And my gratitude is unbounded. 

(The pic is my wrist band for the luau they throw for the emergency room patients every night! Can’t get in without it! Um-hm…)