Dr. Hall
It certainly is no secret that I spent several years in a condition frequently and lovingly referred to as “Nuts”. Now, I don’t feel badly about that because in true Christian Philosophy we are all nuts and salvation comes with the realization of how insane we are and then admitting we can’t fix it ourselves. We need a higher power. Once we are ready to search for that power, God will provide all the guidance we need, in spite of the fact we are usually too blind to see or too deaf to hear.
In my case, the day I snapped for good, I was smart enough to call a person I had been told about by dear friends who saw how badly I needed help. In our first phone conversation, Dr. Hall told me he was not taking any new patients but he could spare a few moments to talk on the phone. After five minutes he told me to show up that Friday at 9 AM. Since then we have had some great “disagreements”. At our very first session, he told me I would come to see Cancer as a blessing from God. I now agree with that completely, but at the time I thought he was crazier than I was. I have to say that after four years, I am healthier than I ever have been in my entire life. I never felt that I was smart enough, funny enough, kind enough. I spent most of my life thinking I was responsible for all the problems around me, that if I just planned harder, or worked harder or somehow was better, everything would be fine. When something inevitably went wrong, I took all the blame. I was terrified of not being good enough. Well, for better or worse, that is all gone. I knew I was truly cured last year when Kay and I went on vacation and I got blessedly lost because I had not obsessively planned the route with three alternative ways of getting there. And it didn’t bother me a bit. I knew it would work out, and in the end we had a great time.
Below is an address to Dr. Hall's Web sight. I tried to embed it in this writing, but if it can be done, I don't know how to do it.
www.awakentotruth.com
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A few weeks (or months) ago I found your blog - google is an amazing thing. I think I read all of it - including the older posts. I know you and Kay were married in December and Marion and I were married in January of the same year, and between us we are 'happily' married about 84 years. I remember your wedding because I have carried some guilt about missing it for some 42 years. My memory has become a little kinder because I can't remember if I even was nice enough to respond to your invitation, and if I did, remembering how thoughtless I could be I probably didn't get around to giving you a gift. Fortunately it seems as though your marriage has lasted well and so has ours. I also have some vague memory of a Phi Delt pin I gave Marion, which I know wasn't mine, but think it might have been borrowed from you. If that memory is wrong, then I wasted 42 years of guilt remembering incorrectly. Maybe losing our memory is God's gift to us after many years.
I am sharing this after reading and re reading your blog about forgiveness and hoping your meant it.
I have some very fond memories of the two of us acting like real football players diving and rolling on the ground catching errant footballs and working out the frustration of our Old Main classes. I sure remember the 'fun' in Pierre Gallagher's French class. Bonjer Monger or something like that - I don't know if my Long Island accent or your lame attempts to pronounce silver plate was worse but I know that I learned guitar using your steel string guitar while practicing my 'French' in the stairwell of Golding has stuck with me for a lot of years.
I have enjoyed reading your writings and realize that you write like you talk. You truly have a great talent to communicate and I have enjoyed every article.
I will continue to read what you write and hope we can connect someday soon. 'Cleo' kept me up on some of the happenings, but reading your writings about frat pledging, weddings, cats, cancer, traveling etc., has been a joy. Glad to see you have become such a geek too! And yes, your video plays just fine.
By the way before giving up on googling your name and failing - though I did learn about your Water and Sewer 'title' I gave it one last shot and googled, gorf, and voila! (is voila French?) I think I might have created the 'gorf' tag, but maybe my memory is wrong there too.
Hi to Kay and hope she read your blog on forgiveness and feels the same way.
jim@jimdorn.com
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