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To: Barnabus who wrote (16128)	5/22/1998 12:18:00 AM
From: pz	Respond to of 39621

Hi Barney, Your posts as always bring a huge smile to my face. You are a wonderful treasure to have here on SI. May God continue to bless you. In Christ, Paul

To: Barnabus who wrote (16128)	5/22/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39621

Barney I wish I were gifted with the art you display in the poetry. It gives what the tone of the message is without being hostile. For your information I have already experienced being where I thought the physical death was coming. I had a ruptured aorta which is usually fatal. The doctors said even with an operation the odds were I would die but they would do all they could to save me. I had no concern of the hereafter at that time. I had the desire to live just like any sane person would. I thought of the separation of the loved ones here and my inabilty to share life with them. I thought of their emotional pain they would suffer because of me. My thoughts on the way to the operating room is that God was a part of me that death could not take away. I have been told several times since by Doctors I was flirting with death. Since I have no fear of death as the final end I have refused for the last 13 years. I knew the God in me would know when it was time for me to change bodies. I went to sleep for the operation and never awoke for almost 3 months. While in a coma I had 7 operations. I lived thru kidney failure on dialysis machines, lung failure with a machine breathing oxygen thru my lungs, I was fed thru a tube in my left side. The doctors told my wife that I was not going to make it but there was a slim chance if she wouldsign for removing the spleen. Her words were: He asked not to be kept alive on machines. You are just cutting him all to pieces to die and I will not ok another aoperation. They said they were pulling the machines and I had a maximum of three days before death. She arranged a funeral and called in the family to be with her as she waited the event. I awoke the next day in a stupor as she came in and kissed me. The doctor said that wasn't unusual in a dying patient but not to get her hopes up. I gained more awareness in the next few weeks and found myself butchered and my legs gone, I had a colostomy, and no legs. I had lost all muscle and couldn't do any movement except nod my head. I soon could feed myself by sucking theu a straw that awful tasting stuff they use for food. My thoughts of God never changed during this whole experience. I didn't even remember where I lived so it took time for me to regain my memory. My progress was slow but determined. On arrival home I saw a single leaf growing on a dead tree. It was a beautiful green leaf on a giant tree growing in impossible situation. My God within made me think, if God's love can make that leaf live then with love I have from God I can also live in an impossible situation. That was 13 years ago and my faith has never wavered. As you can see I have never regained my ability to type and have lots of errors and extra letters inserted by hitting two keys at the same time. Other letters are omitted by failing to hit the key hard enough. I know it distracting and try to edit when time permits. This one I haven't time. L8R.

To: Barnabus who wrote (16128)	5/22/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: O'Hara	Respond to of 39621

><>..And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace..><> Ps 37:11-20 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. God bless you and your wife and may God's grace forever be with you Have a blessed day Shalom...><>