Three Years Old
I turn three years-old today! Three years ago today I was on a respirator. My intestines ruptured and I went in for emergency surgery at 2 AM on July 24, 2000. I could have and probably should have died, but God spared my life. It was the worst day and best day of my life. Walter Kaufman said, “It makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death.”
I was reading Gregg Levoy’s book Callings recently and he interviewed people who were forced, as he put it, “to consult their deaths.” When they discovered they were going to die a few of them were shattered, but many of them felt liberated. One woman diagnosed with cancer said it was “not a death sentence, but a life sentence.” My near-death experience was a life sentence
I was reading Gregg Levoy’s book Callings recently and he interviewed people who were forced, as he put it, “to consult their deaths.” When they discovered they were going to die a few of them were shattered, but many of them felt liberated. One woman diagnosed with cancer said it was “not a death sentence, but a life sentence.” My near-death experience was a life sentence
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