Sharon. Thanks for sharing. I was just about to write the list. I’m glad you beat me to it. I love your article. And thanks for including thought provocative questions. I hope others will chip in here and comment.

Blessings to each and every one of you.



Vicki

> On Sep 6, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Sharon Hooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Saving a Life Through sacrifice.
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> Let me tell you about my sister, Judy.  Judy was one of my siblings who suffered, along with one or two of our brothers in the family of seven children, from a genetic disorder that gradually destroys the kidneys.  She spent some time in bed instead of at school as a young girl, but was strong enough as a young adult to become a registered Nurse.  For awhile she worked in publick health, in schools and with those in the community who needed special supervision and care.  I remember people warmly inquiring about Judy, how she was doing.  She was one of my favorite sisters, laughing easily when I joked or told stories, and would sometimes spoil me by buying toys every once in awhile.
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> Judy eventually decided to change careers to go into Christian ministrie, taking classes in seminary.  She married, and the couple eventually adopted two children.
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> As she grew older, Judy's health declined rapidly, making her tire much more easily.    She was then added to a waiting list for a cadaver kidney donor.  The family was on vacation when the call came, and she was taken to the hospital that was closer to their home in Oregon.
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> Now, twenty-seven years later, much longer than the typical seven to ten years before shutting down, Judy's transplanted kidney, named Clarice by one of the nurses where her surgery had taken place, is still functioning.  With the support of medication that my sister must faithfully take, Clarice has never rejected the body into which "she" had been attached,
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> Why am I telling this story, you may ask?  Is it possible that we can learn from it, as if it were a fable?  I just want to ask some questions to ponder:
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> Did Judy receive her kidney from someone who died because she was so well known, was such a good compassionate person who contributed to society, someone you could trust with your life? Did she need to say the required number of prayers facing a specific direction every day, practice transendental meditation, burn candles and sacrifices to some gods who would punish her for every little infraction of their demanding heart-renching rules? Or did she simply receive it, allowing it to be placed inside her system while passively positioned on the
> operating table?  Would she be living a productive life today if she had insisted that she could perform the rituals and carry out her duties  forever, that she didn't need any crutch of an intervention via the transplant or at least dialysis treatment?
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> Did her kids need to earn their adoptability by doing all the work required of them, by being on their best behavior with more acts of kindness than evil deeds weighed on a balance scale?  Did they need to go through reincarnated lives until they accomplished everything necessary to finally arrive at the state of being called "adoptedness" in order to enter the perfect life in a home and real family, or were they lovingly brought home without expectations  from them and raised toward becoming caring, law-abiding citizens themselves?
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> Silly questions, huh?  Now, I'm not trying to cram any religion down your throat, but Do you know of any religion, besides christianity, that involved someone sacrificing his or her life to make it possible for  your soul to receive this inner heart transplant, so to speak, and live forever, even when your body itself becomes a cadaver that naturally decays or is soon burned to ashes?  Is it possible that the person who sacrificed his blood and returned to life would like to be your best friend who knows everything and wants to support and comfort you even when tragedy strikes until the end of your temporary life on Earth?  Would you call being a Christian a religion just because you can't use your physical and mental senses to determine whether or not your friend is there and that it seems he's not speaking or responding to you?  What if you could receive deeper senses so you can wait patiently for him to interact with you, something that inner heart transplant could give you?    Is it possible that all of us have suffered from a genetic disorder that has caused the function of our inner heart to deteriorate until we die  unless we receive a divine intervention?
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> The job of a kidney involves clearing oout body waste.    Why not ask Jesus Christ, known as The Great Physician, to clear away the toxins that has caused you to be and do everything wrong, give you that transplant so that you can live clean forever?
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> Once an organ is transplanted, medication must be taken regularly to help it not to reject the body into which it is attached.  What if this Great Physician can come to live inside you through His Spirit to continually give you His medication and live His life through you to keep you functioning properly as long as you let Him take complete control?
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