Marked to Remember
Since this last surgery I have become scar conscious. Only my thyroid surgery at the age of 19 produced a scar that is visible to the public. The rest of the more than 10 surgical scars lie hidden beneath my clothes. Friends, relatives and strangers do not live daily with an awareness of how many scars mar my already less than perfect frame. It was confirmed that osteoarthritis had caused enough damage to my knees so that only replacement knees made from titanium would return me to normal. Soon I was imagining long very visible scars eventually on both knees. My desire to lessen the raised red lines that would eventually mark both of my man made knees, grew greater as the date for surgery drew closer. I found a book on the attributes of God called None Like Him. Jen Wilken clearly explains how the attributes of God are not dry theological ideas but important life changing concepts. Unlike God who has no beginning and no end we live life within time. Whe...