A Time For All Things

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"Lake Charles: 1908-1926 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. September 23, 1996 KLM Flight 287 rolled to a seamless stop on the tarmac, and settled on its wheels under the translucent Moscow sky. A contingent of American heart surgeons and support staff blinked and stretched. Their leader was famous for dozing off as soon as the wheels were up on any flight of length, and more than one of his retinue had mimicked that feat on this last leg of their journey from Houston via Amsterdam. This was not the first sojourn to Russia for their Chief - that had been back in 1958, when the country had another name and quite another polity. Many other visits had followed, accompanied by accolades and fetes, mostly with a Cold War political undertone he neither shared nor acknowledged. By nature he was fond of reflecting on change and history, and he did not miss the significance of returning to this place, the both of them now so different, in a position to alter the life path of a man who, himself, was responsible for much of this country's metamorphosis. The President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was suffering from congestive heart failure and severe coronary artery disease. The situation was grave; he was not expected to live without open-heart surgery - coronary bypass - but it was not clear that he could survive the procedure itself. The leading Russian heart surgeons and cardiologists had asked this Houston team to come to Moscow to assess the risks and provide recommendations as to how to proceed. In the geopolitically-charged climate of the immediate post-Cold War period, bringing in a coterie of Americans as consultants on the medical care of the most powerful man in Russia provoked all manner of responses on both sides of the Atlantic. The world's major news organizations focused on the story, covering every aspect. This fuss was of little consequence to the team from Texas, however. They were there to do a job, and their very presence in the Russian capital was as much of a validation as any that they were the most qualified group in the world for the task"--

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What if you knew--what if you really knew--that everything that happened to you would eventually work for good in your life? Would it change the way you felt, thought, and lived?Dramatically! That's the unstoppable power of Romans 8:28, the ultimate promise in the Bible, that all things work together for the good of those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.Romans 8:28 is all-inclusive, all-powerful, and always available. It can touch any hurt and redeem any problem. It isn't a mere platitude but a divine promise. Romans 8:28 morphs us into resilient, cheerful people, whatever our temperament.

He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.

Written in simplicity, A Time for All Things is about Bane, a color-blind ex-boxer who was just released from prison for assault. When he gets to his halfway house in El Paso, he is faced with problems he doesnt want to face. He lost so many things in his life that this time, it is a delicate issue of standing on principles or risking going back to prison. In his conflict at the halfway house, he meets the lovely Luna, a woman who has laughter like the wind. It is being with her that gives him the confidence he needs to make a final decision on how to handle the problems he is faced with.

Pudge - A pony June 28, 2004 Monday At 1:00 Pudge my best and only friend I had, had to be put down at 4:00. We buried him in his favorite corner by the dog's pen. He always loved that spot!! He is my best friend and I won't forget you Pudge, ever! I love you very, very much Sweets. Those were the words written by a young girl named Heather. Recorded in this book are some of the wonderful moments God was kind enough to share with Heather, her Pony, and family through a miracle of hope in their great time of need.

Time kills all things, but it also heals all things. Somewhere in the midst of those two--healing and dying--is where this book lives. There is healing in the process of dying. We get sick, we get better, but we will inevitably one day die. Millions are killed in a genocide, but like a gash in your skin, the world comes together to heal that wound. There is pain and then forgiveness. The world is a big place. These essays are struggles to explore the way the world works, and as a consequence, how we should operate within it. How do we heal others? Ourselves? How do we die well? How does time make all things beautiful?These pieces were written between 2012-2019 with a personal, poetic energy which just might help you navigate your own way through this foggy terrarium we call earth.