Post by Jolly on Dec 11, 2021 18:22:49 GMT
From the HCSB: They were begging Him that they might only touch the tassel on His robe. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well. - Matthew 14:36
There's a guy on more than one board that I frequent, whom I've argued, commiserated, rejoiced and once threatened to get on a plane just to go kick his butt. An avowed atheist, at one time his life was nothing but a Wall Street magic carpet ride of money, drugs and sex. In terms of a dollar, he's done well in life, but for a long time, not much else. But, as happens as one gets older, he wanted to settle down and get off the merry-go-round. He married a girl from NYC, a beautiful dark-eyed, Jewish girl. His son was born and then God slapped him down with a bilateral cystic disease in his lungs. The company he'd built had to be sold. His health continued to spiral down, until there was nothing left to do, but rip his old, diseased lungs out and transplant new ones in. He got on the list and was fortunate to get a match and a set of lungs before it was too late. The transplant was done at Duke, where some of the best lung work in the world is done.
He still drops by Duke every six months and is reassessed, but one thing led to another and he now sits on a national board that tries to help with research into lung diseases and transplant issues. Emotional support is important for anybody undergoing such a massive surgery and recovery process, so one thing available to Duke transplant patients is a private Facebook group. He posted the following Facebook post from one of his fellow lung transplant patients this morning on the board I frequent (I'm not going to show just quite everything)...It is a remarkable story of individual toughness, Divine healing and modern medical science. Surely, this can move even an avowed atheist to the agnostic column, at least...
There's a guy on more than one board that I frequent, whom I've argued, commiserated, rejoiced and once threatened to get on a plane just to go kick his butt. An avowed atheist, at one time his life was nothing but a Wall Street magic carpet ride of money, drugs and sex. In terms of a dollar, he's done well in life, but for a long time, not much else. But, as happens as one gets older, he wanted to settle down and get off the merry-go-round. He married a girl from NYC, a beautiful dark-eyed, Jewish girl. His son was born and then God slapped him down with a bilateral cystic disease in his lungs. The company he'd built had to be sold. His health continued to spiral down, until there was nothing left to do, but rip his old, diseased lungs out and transplant new ones in. He got on the list and was fortunate to get a match and a set of lungs before it was too late. The transplant was done at Duke, where some of the best lung work in the world is done.
He still drops by Duke every six months and is reassessed, but one thing led to another and he now sits on a national board that tries to help with research into lung diseases and transplant issues. Emotional support is important for anybody undergoing such a massive surgery and recovery process, so one thing available to Duke transplant patients is a private Facebook group. He posted the following Facebook post from one of his fellow lung transplant patients this morning on the board I frequent (I'm not going to show just quite everything)...It is a remarkable story of individual toughness, Divine healing and modern medical science. Surely, this can move even an avowed atheist to the agnostic column, at least...
