Affliction really has this beautiful and wonderful way of expanding our awareness of how limited, though it may seem inspired, our view is of what's is significant and important in our lives.
An this is my epiphany when I was on the hospital bed - that the most important thing in my life is the quality of relationship that I have with the people that I love and hold very dear. I also visited the question if I have done good in this world and if I have blessed the lives of others. Everything else is peripheral and ancillary, a very distant milky way second.
Knowledge, intelligence, the things I have achieved and the things that I own became insignificant. Faith and courage is suddenly front and center.
I say, AMEN to that.
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