Comments on: Tougher People http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:02:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Cerulean Sanctum » The Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2005 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html#comment-3246 Cerulean Sanctum » The Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2005 Sat, 06 May 2006 20:09:13 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=336#comment-3246 [...] Tougher People looks at the wimpiness of the West. [...] [...] Tougher People looks at the wimpiness of the West. [...]

]]> By: Bruce L. http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html#comment-2765 Bruce L. Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:12:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=336#comment-2765 Dan: I appreciated this post. I've had similar thoughts. In the "good old days", if the disease didn't kill you, the doctor sure could. Anyway, your thoughts have encouraged me. Thanks. Dan:
I appreciated this post. I’ve had similar thoughts. In the “good old days”, if the disease didn’t kill you, the doctor sure could.

Anyway, your thoughts have encouraged me. Thanks.

]]> By: Milton Stanley http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html#comment-2764 Milton Stanley Sat, 28 May 2005 01:21:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=336#comment-2764 Sorry to hear that you probably won't be having the surgery, Dan. May all of us learn better how to rejoice in the Lord always. Peace. Sorry to hear that you probably won’t be having the surgery, Dan. May all of us learn better how to rejoice in the Lord always. Peace.

]]> By: Broken Messenger http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html#comment-2763 Broken Messenger Fri, 27 May 2005 20:31:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=336#comment-2763 Dan, Thank you for sharing your struggles and thoughts on this issue. It was a much needed blessing to me today. Brad Dan,

Thank you for sharing your struggles and thoughts on this issue. It was a much needed blessing to me today.

Brad

]]> By: Dan Edelen http://ceruleansanctum.com/2005/05/tougher-people.html#comment-2762 Dan Edelen Fri, 27 May 2005 17:26:00 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=336#comment-2762 Milton, I wrote a long response to your question about having the surgery, but canned it because I did not want to create an online record of specifics that may come back to bite me. People Google my name all the time and I'm probably already mud in the eyes of some people who have looked me up on the Web and not liked what they see in my writings or opinions. Considering the costs involved and the tenuous nature of the economy, I don't see it happening. I talk with my dentist next week about alternatives. The surgery process would have taken over two years to complete and if my experience tells me anything, it's that anything can happen in two years. I just stareted taking allergy shots again and that's a two year commitment that I can't afford to NOT finish. The sad part about this was that this surgery probably should have been done when I was a teen. My folks had outstanding medical coverage, but the surgery was even riskier then and I think that spooked them. Life is not always fair. When I think of myself, I don't see a tough person. Others think we have done remarkably well given what has happened to us in the last nine years, and so some people think I'm tough. Yet when I think about folks living out on the prairie in the 1850's, or the battered survivors of war, I see people who dealt with bad events far better than we do today. Perhaps one of the reasons the Church in America is so soft is because the people in it are as delicate as hoarfrost---a warm breeze and we melt. So the thorn will remain. Milton,

I wrote a long response to your question about having the surgery, but canned it because I did not want to create an online record of specifics that may come back to bite me. People Google my name all the time and I’m probably already mud in the eyes of some people who have looked me up on the Web and not liked what they see in my writings or opinions.

Considering the costs involved and the tenuous nature of the economy, I don’t see it happening. I talk with my dentist next week about alternatives. The surgery process would have taken over two years to complete and if my experience tells me anything, it’s that anything can happen in two years. I just stareted taking allergy shots again and that’s a two year commitment that I can’t afford to NOT finish.

The sad part about this was that this surgery probably should have been done when I was a teen. My folks had outstanding medical coverage, but the surgery was even riskier then and I think that spooked them.

Life is not always fair. When I think of myself, I don’t see a tough person. Others think we have done remarkably well given what has happened to us in the last nine years, and so some people think I’m tough. Yet when I think about folks living out on the prairie in the 1850’s, or the battered survivors of war, I see people who dealt with bad events far better than we do today. Perhaps one of the reasons the Church in America is so soft is because the people in it are as delicate as hoarfrost—a warm breeze and we melt.

So the thorn will remain.

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