So if you care to know I am Mormon. That is my religion for those of you that don't know. I got back from church a little bit ago.
My religion is very important to me. To a certain extent it always has been. Now I don't mind what you believe. You can believe what you like. I have always tried to be like that. My family may disagree. They have the right.
We believe in personal revelation. And I am around now in the state I am because of it.
Let's all go back in time a few months to just before I had my stroke. At the time I was thinking about going to my in-laws for a short visit or doing a training for the national guard that would be about two weeks. My father-in-law suggested that I not come. It didn't make any since not to go at the time. I fretted over what to do for a little while. Finally, I went to Austin for the training. It was not to bad. Now I may have some people who think I am just lucky. You are entitled to believe that. But I know better.
I went to Austin for a kind of train the trainer class and we were getting ready to do the first iteration. I decided to come back to San Antonio to see my family one night and while I was home I got sick in a way I never had before. I threw up I don't know how many times and it was almost impossible to walk straight. In fact it was so hard to walk because it felt like I was very dizzy and it was very hard to walk at all after a while.
I thought it would all go away if I drank a sprite. I had two and nothing seemed to get better. My family was having dinner with some friends. I called my wife and she encouraged me to go to the ER. I was in no condition to call anyone but finally I was able to get hold of a friend who took me to the emergency room. On the way I ask him to stop by Jack-in-the-box so I could have something to eat. By the time I got to the emergency room I couldn't walk on my own any more and my friend had to push me around in a wheelchair. After we were finally taken in to a small room for a while. I ate my fries and I talked some to my friend and then I remember nothing until I "woke up" in the hospital.
So what does this have to do with anything you may ask? So you had a stroke so what.
Because I was sensitive to what the spirit or Holy Ghost was trying to tell me I have what I have. If I had gone to my father- in-laws house what might have happened? I am not trying to say I have listened to everything that has been shared with me. I haven't. I hope I know better now.
Since my stroke I might have to relearn how to identify the promptings of the spirit. Right now I don't feel the promptings the way I am used to, if at all. But at one time I thought that I could walk without to much difficulty. I think I know how how to walk a little better now. And I know better.
I am not trying to say I am better than anyone from it. At one time I knew one thing and it saved my life. Now I probably need to relearn it like so many other things.
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