November 08, 2023 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
High Falls 01 10-20-2010 — DuPont State Forest, Transylvania County, North Carolina
The anesthesiologist, the nurses and the surgeon
who took care of my cataract surgery
did their jobs better than Jesus could have done them,
and the same thing applies to all the other
medical staff in the surgery center,
and to all the people everywhere
who are caring for people.

It is the Jesus thing, 
and all of us are capable of being Jesus
in the way we treat other people.
There is nothing to it.
Caring treatment happens all the time.

Jesus is among us in those who care for one another.
It is never any more complicated than that.

Surgery went fine. 
I have a plastic protector taped over my eye,
and can't get it wet for a week.
Try taking a shower without getting an eye wet.
So it's come down to the dreary details,
and when it's done it will be done,
and the new will have come
and the old will have passed away
and then we do the other eye
and repeat the process.

And I get to spend time with Jesus throughout it.
The good along with the bad.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

2 thoughts on “November 08, 2023 – A”

  1. I am so happy for you. My cataract surgeries changed my sight and had the side effect of slowing down my glaucoma. My staff, too, were like Jesus, although not all of them called themselves Christian.

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    1. That is the Great Lie of Christianity! Being Jesus has nothing to do with believing in Jesus. It is merely how we treat one another. Jesus did not believe in Jesus, recite the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed, or embrace the Westminster Confession of Faith, didn’t bother with “Once saved always saved,” or if Adam and Eve had navels, or if children could take Communion, or had to be baptized, by immersion… It is such a dreadful shame what we have done with Jesus.

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