WOW!
What a day! I woke up after only about 5 hours of sleep; with a sense of awakeness and being ready to "tackle the day." Leaving the house, it was just before sunrise at 6:30am, with the most clear skies I have seen in a long, long time. A small moon-sickle on top, a bright morning star, and driving into the sunrise... occuring over the lake right where I get to park. I couldn't be more thankful for a place to live and work than right here where I am!
We had an outstanding "Grand Rounds" lecture on "Surgery in the Third World," so even a mandatory conference just awed me today. Charlie Hall's new CD, ...
Then, I was caught entirely by surprise, as I implanted my first kidney this very morning. Entirely out of the blue! It was beautiful, EXCITING, and it worked!!! I just wanted to bust out, right then and there, with a big, loud "You are my joy, You are my joy, You are my joy, You are my JOY!!!" in crescendo mode, but patiently I waited!!!
Afterwards, the team "drove through" Micky D's for 5 chocolate milkshakes... our joy when we were handed the drinks was so great that the lady at the window even had a HUGE smile on her face; when she surely was expecting a mom in a minivan with 5 kids and instead got 5 super-excited adults...
posted by Silke @ 3:34 PM
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Yes Silke, I can see you all refreshed after so little sleep....coming from one here who is such a zombie if I don't get enough sleep. You are fortunate for that. Like I posted on one of the blogs, it has nothing to do with my age. I have always required as close to 8 hours of sleep as possible and my son is the same way. Guess it must be hereditary.
Anyway, I finally posted to your blog. It has been so much with all of these blogs and emails to keep up with but I knew I eventually would get on your blog. I just now sent an email to my son's friend's (Ethan) mom. As I had said before, she actually replied back to my last email which is exciting news. I am just thankful to God for this opportunity to chat with this lady. I was talking about Passion in my email to her and telling her how incredible and exciting it was....both for us volunteers and the students as well. I also told her about the student conference "Acquire the Fire" coming here in Charlotte in March that I will be attending as a volunteer too. While I am not trying to impose or force her interest in this, I do hope it will spark an interest that maybe she could look into Ethan going to something like this. Hey, one can only hope I can give her some encouragement for positive influences we both need in our son's lives. I told her I was planning on coming up in February and she did welcome meeting with me for some coffee. I am just so excited and pumped up about this. Silke, it just seems with what is going on with you, and here with me, this is just too much, isn't it? By the way, I read back in the postings for 268 blog and it said the Kristian Stanfill song was only available on itunes and would not be on the CD so I went ahead and downloaded it. I can't even count how many times I have listened to it, but hearing the song and the sounds of all of that singing just brings me back to being there, even though I did not make it to the arena for that. I was in the rehearsal hall during that session, but we volunteers had our own little thing going on there with singing, praising God, clapping, dancing. It was as if we didn't even need to be in the arena to feel as if we were in it.
Well, gotta run for now. Spent too much time on this computer and I need some time away from it.
Lova ya,
Donna
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