“O God, do not keep silent; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!” (Psalm 83:1)
I was out of it. really out of it. I was down so low, I couldn’t talk; I could barely breathe; I definitely couldn’t think. I have no real memory of the event. My wife called the Rescue Squad. When they asked my wife what was wrong, and how big I am, they sent two squads. Expecting a stroke, they sent me to the closest hospital.
Rushed me to the emergency room. Incoherent! Tests, more tests; something else; something around me, no, not around me, in me, no, within me. I was freezing, but there was a warmth within; I was shivering from the cold, but I was not cold. I felt the warmth of the love and concern and fear emanating from my wife who never left my side. It was this love and warmth that kept me alive.
My wife shared her gift with me; for I was too sick and incapable of thinking my own. My true-life cells of God’s aliveness within me were masked deep within me by the disease of pneumonia, and yet, You were there, with her, . . . deep within me where You always are, caring, loving, protecting as you always are. . . just as Jesus promises in all His teachings.
With love You protect and nourish me; the cells of my aliveness that I share with You, my entirety, abound with eternal love and kindness that I try my best to share with all whom I meet. I love and thank you for your caring for me and all of my family. I follow what Jesus asks, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matt 22. 37)
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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