A New Heart
Tomorrow’s the big day! I go to the hospital at 5:30AM for by-pass surgery at 8. This afternoon I spent six hours there getting “pre-admitted” and “pre-oped”.They took my blood, did an EKG, x-rayed my chest, did ultrasound on my carotid arteries and the inside of my legs, asked a lot of questions and told me what to expect (more or less). Then I came home and had to take a shower with some antibacterial soap and I’ll have to do it again in the morning before I leave. When I get there in the morning they’ll make me take off all my clothes and put on one of those hospital gowns – you know, the ones that are drafty in back. Then they’ll clip off all the hair on the front of my body from the neck to my toes, stick me with some needles and who knows what else, put me to sleep and I’ll wake up 5 or 6 hours later and I’ll be as good as new (at least that’s what the heart surgeon told me).
Now that I’ve said all that, let me tell you that I am not in the least bit worried about this whole procedure or the outcome. I expressed my confidence in my Lord and God in the last post and I have not wavered from that. “He will never leave [me] or forsake [me].” Not only that, there are so many people and whole churches praying for me that I don’t believe He would let them down.
That’s all for now. By this weekend I’ll be back with “the rest of the story.”
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20
