Does one's thinking cap go out the window

When one sits in a wheelchair? Hardly, though some must think so!

Eliot

A favorite poet of MFD's

For a number of years, MFD loved listening to T.S. Eliot , especially at night while he fell asleep.

We would hear Eliot's voice coming from MFD's bedroom.  A soft  drone of words.

Might not Poet Elliot ask MFD, regarding this past year:

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot 

And might we not say, "Quite tall, MFD has become , no?"

theology of suffering, Oswald Chambers

      photo April, 2009

From today's reading of My Utmost for Highest

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person’s shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow. Why it should be this way is immaterial. The fact is that it is true in the Scriptures and in human experience. You can always recognize who has been through the fires of sorrow and received himself, and you know that you can go to him in your moment of trouble and find that he has plenty of time for you. But if a person has not been through the fires of sorrow, he is apt to be contemptuous, having no respect or time for you, only turning you away. If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

Father's Day

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

 

C.S. Lewis

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”  Mother Teresa

Diet plans

We met yesterday with a physican who specializes in clinical nutrition.

VERY helpful to have guidelines .  While we are grateful MFD has an appetite , we are

very aware that the process of digestion is unique when one has no stomach.  So there are specifics that require a knowledge base about nutrition .  No time to be stupid here.

Morning gratitude:

That we have an opportunity to choose a doctor .  We say YES to finding one who has spent her career in the field of clinical nutrition.  She might as well have hung a sign on a marquee,"Welcome MFD! I have been waiting for you!"

She has as patients both folks who have major eating disorders and folks who have lost parts of their digestive systems to various diseases.  My thought was that she should have the two groups meet up.  It might be good shock therapy for the ED folks to see that damaging their GI tracts isn't so grand.

Off to GNC for some supplements.