Translation: Providing universal health care for everyone is going to be expensive. Especially if they insist on receiving every possible life-saving method. The people who will bankrupt the system will be the Christians. Give them dirty looks and don’t let your children play with them. The government will deal with these miscreants in due time.
Awwww! That’s soooo cute.
I just loved that!!! How sweet. I wonder what Fido is praying for... extra biscuits?
Well duh! Filling in one of those is arguably similar to signing a suicide note. Religious people are not going to do anything that smacks of colluding with their own death.
As I was being taken into surgery for a failing heart, I looked into my bride’s eyes and said, “ I’ll be fine dear, as long as my soul is right and my fishing gear is ready”. I wanted to be covered either way. ;>)
Before the surgery I was told that I had no more than 6 months to live. On May 4th of this year, this will have been 2 years ago. I refused to accept my pull date. LOL
Just before I was about to go under, I asked a question of the surgery team, “ I just need to know, does anybody here believe in God?” One of the team touched my hand and said in a calm, soothing and reassuring voice, “Yes, now relax”... seconds later I drifted off.
During surgery I suffered a stroke and contracted MRSA. Instead of being in the hospital for 6 to 8 days, I was there for 2 long and very painful months. Instead of one surgery, they cut into my chest 4 times. It took another 8 months to heal and recover at home.
On my worst days, I thought of what Tony Snow had said, “God didn’t promise us another tomorrow, he promised us an eternity”. I can not tell you how many hundreds of times I thought of those very words... and somehow they comforted me. Why my Bride prayed for me, I prayed for Tony.
I live because of a large group of very good doctors, over a million dollars of medical science ( I’m insured), the strength of my wonderful and loving Bride that stayed by my side each and every day—her unconditional love for me, God’s blessings, my strong desire to see my grandchildren’s eyes again, my extremely strong will to live.... and desire to go fishing and play on my boat.
Had I died, some would have had regrets, I on the other hand, I tried to be ready and tried to be prepared for whatever direction the train was going to run.
So, in my view, be prepared for what comes your way, pray for the best and fight to live with everything you have... never surrender to the dark and the pain, never give in to the flaws of man. And, take comfort in Tony’s words... while God really didn’t promise us another tomorrow, He did promise us an eternity... but hey, you might make it, so have your fishing gear ready.
BTW.. I love that pic.