Yo, friends. In the most bloggiest of fashions (yay! remember when blogging meant keeping your friends and loved ones up on what was happening in your life, rather than what it means now, which is Write Completely Excellent Stand-Alone Column Pieces? Me, neither. But still), I am, in the quickest of morning moments, jettisoning All Things Punctuationally Proper (for one) to tell you that my dearly beloved wife Cat is, this Tuesday morning at 7 a.m., going under the knife.
For hours.
I should be a complete basket case about … well, now.
She’s fine—well, actually, she’s been perpetually exhausted for about two years now. But she’s fine—and will be, after this operation, as good as new.
Oh, but yayeth!!!!
Poor thing. How she’s suffered.
I don’t want to get too precise about what kind of operation she’ll be getting, but let’s just say that afterward she’s much less likely to get too readily hysterical. Not that she was ever inclined to hysteria, actually.
Can I get an amen from anyone out there over about fifty? Cuz I know you know what I’m talkin’ bout.
God. Getting old(er) is so … weird. And awesome, of course. We’re loving it. We feel … insanely blessed.
Anyway. Right. A prayer or two on behalf of my wife Cat would of course be an extraordinary blessing to us.
Tomorrow Cat’s going to work. So I’ll post a new blog piece tomorrow around 11 a.m., let you know more of what up in our little quadrant of this big, vast phenomenon we call reality.
Posted by Melinda on November 22, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I think I catch your drift and I’m not even 50. I will be praying for you guys!
Posted by Chase on November 22, 2009 at 12:28 pm
You both are in my prayers, friend.
Posted by Liz Edmundson on November 22, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Prayers are coming your way!
Posted by Kory Cochran on November 22, 2009 at 12:50 pm
John & Cat,
We (our church) will say a prayer for you both & will continue to do so. Be crazy blessed my friend & brother in Jesus.
Posted by David Barach on November 22, 2009 at 6:08 pm
I’m in Spokane with the Hornors and they are all praying for Cat and send their love. The word is that they are very effective on the prayer thing, so Cat should be all set.
Posted by wickle on November 22, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Praying …
Posted by Judy on November 22, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Prayers for you both. Don’t forget the Get Well flowers.
Posted by FreetoBe on November 22, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Absolutely praying for you both.
Posted by skerrib on November 22, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I’m a big fan of ice cream to aid recovery. You should share with Cat, too.
Posted by textjunkie on November 22, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Praying for the operation to go smoothly and for Cat to be full o’ vim and vigour as soon as possible…
Posted by Jeannie on November 22, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Prayers coming.
Posted by Vicki in NC on November 23, 2009 at 5:58 am
I myself had a … hysterical… two years ago at age 49 and have not been hysterical ever since. Huge relief. Prayers for Cat…
Posted by Richard Lubbers on November 23, 2009 at 6:24 am
Tammy and I join with those in prayer for Cat!
It’s kind of like this:
Holy One (hereafter refered to as HO): Yes, my son?
Richard Lubbers (hereafter refered to as RL): Praise you HO, You alone are worthy!
HO: Thank you RL. You are correct in saying that I alone am worthy. Actually, I’m worthy of a whole lot of things, but I’ll accept that you’ve left it open ended. I also know that you have an ulterior motive in your heart, and that you think if you just praise me, I’ll know what it is you need, because I’m God, and I’ll bless you with the answer to your prayer.
RL: Yeah. You know me well.
HO: If you only knew! So what’s up?
RL: Well HO, there’s this amazing, funny writer I found on the internet, and he talks about stuff that’s really imortant, but he does it in such a way as to make me laugh, and cry sometimes, but mostly laugh.
HO: You been listening to John Shore again?
RL: Yeah.
HO: Me too. The guy cracks me up! So what’s up with John?
RL: Well, HO, his dear wife, Cat, is going in for an operation tomorrow. John says it’s not really serious, but I can tell he’s streesing about it anyway, because he loves Cat so much, and really needs her in his life. You know all this, of course,
HO: My Son redeemed his soul. Cat redeemed his life. I love how they have become one.
RL: So you have a plan in this?
HO: I have a plan for everything.
RL: Mind sharing?
HO: Love deeper than they’ve ever known.
RL: You are such a good God! Praise you! You’ll take care of her then?
HO: Yeah!
RL: Thank you.
HO: Any time. I love talking with you.
John, I vote for both the flowers AND the ice cream.
Posted by John Shore on November 23, 2009 at 6:49 am
Whoa. Thanks so very, very much to each of you. This is just all so touching. Thank you. I’ll certainly keep you up on what’s happening. Thanks again!!
Posted by namesake on November 23, 2009 at 7:33 am
Praying.
Posted by Latoya on November 23, 2009 at 8:42 am
Beatiful convo Richard! God definitely has a plan John. Just keep trusting. I’ll be doing a minor surgery at 10 am tmrw…so we can pray for eachother..God bless
Posted by Lynn on November 23, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Praying for Cat and you.
Posted by jennie on November 23, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Praying…for both of you
Posted by ~Julia~ on November 23, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Healing thoughts and prayers for you both going up….