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Thanks-Giving

November 21, 2012 by John Hembree Leave a Comment

This week I have been contemplating this word.

Nothing dramatic. Nothing profound.

This year I have begun to look at this word differently.

Rather than solely giving thanks for what has been given to me I am wanting and striving to give thanks for that which I might give…to others.

Common courtesy is something to give away.

Holding a door, saying thank you, watching someone to their car, all gifts to be given.

This year and during this Christmas season I will have the honor of giving a kidney in a live donor transplant to someone that before last week I had never had a conversation with.

Honestly, I am not even sure if a gift of this type has a monetary value. Gosh, I hope it does not, because that is what makes it so very special to me.

I asked a surgeon and a psychiatrist the same question as I was being poked and prodded from butt to brain.

“Why would God create a body with two kidneys when we only need one to live if we were not supposed to give one away?”

They could not provide me with an answer.

I will write more in detail regarding this in the future. However, I will leave you with this.

A couple of years ago I said to God out of frustration and desperation, “I feel like I have nothing to give outwardly but I feel like I do have something that is inside of me that will benefit others, but God, I do not know what that is.”

I had no idea how that prayer would answered or even what it meant.

Now I do.

JHH

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