Saturday, May 5, 2018

ENCORE #87! – Giving Thanks

From the first moment my wife discovered she had breast cancer, there was a deafening silence from the men I know. Even ones whose wives, mothers or girlfriends had breast cancer seemed to have received a gag order from some Central Cancer Command and did little more than mumble about the experience. Not one to shut up for any known reason, I started this blog…That was four years ago – as time passed, people searching for answers stumbled across my blog and checked out what I had to say. The following entry appeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2015.

While the article linked below is about forgiveness, and references Matthew 18 in which a man who was forgiven a HUGE debt went out and when he couldn’t collect on a small debt someone else owed him – he had the man thrown into prison.

I’m sure the end outcome is obvious, but I want to emphasize the lesson implied here. I think it implies that when you are forgiven a debt; when something that you expected to happen doesn’t, you GIVE THANKS.

I forget, now that the initial horror is over seven years past, to give thanks. So at this time, I offer up my heartfelt thanks that my wife is healthy and that I have learned.

Thank you.

That is all...

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