April 1st 1988-2023

I am in awe how slow time can move yet it zips by at lightening speed. Remembering the days gone by can & will put a Cheshire Cat smile on our very soul.

As chunks of time of time from past that are often hardships & pain become smoothed over as if by a steam roller making these hard events in life more tolerable. Upon looking perhaps we can see growth and purpose, even here we can find a sampling of joy.

I would never say suffering is good, but in that suffering we often can glean something useful, even if it’s just a bit or the first evidence of good, it fits nice and comfortable.

My heart & lungs transplant came in the nick of time allowing my life to continue, April 1st 1988, a true day of miracles! Some label this date as April fools day, we thank God it wasn’t a joke but instead it gave my wife her husband back and allowed our two boys to regain their daddy thus giving me my family to love and enjoy for what ever years I can. As of today I have been given 35 wonderfully blessed years beyond deaths open door.

I am not afraid of death, I know where I’m going. I know it’s all by Gods grace. I know I never have deserved anything let alone a new lease on life yet here I am.