Whistling with a Clean Heart
“Create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within me…” Psalms 51:10
Three weeks ago, a stress test revealed that I had five blocked arteries (a 100%. three 90s and an 80%). We’d expected the test to be a waste of time since my blood pressure had consistently tested good. But what I didn’t know was that my strong heart had created new blood vessels that disguised these blockages. It took a stress to reveal my heart’s true condition.
The doctor that did the heart cauterization (reeking with graveside manners and a bizarre sense of humor) laughingly announced that I might drop dead at any moment and should go home, make a will and secure a burial spot. “You’ll probably die in the pulpit”, he laughed. My family doctor recommended a Nacogdoches heart surgeon to us and two days later, I had eight hours of bypass surgery and joyfully awakened that evening to see my sweet Pam, my son Mark and my two brothers smiling happily down into my eyes.
I’m early in my recovery period but am feeling the results of my heart’s clean plumbing already. I can take my own showers again, can walk outside to feed my birds ….and I’m whistling better than I have in years! Keeping my plumbing clean is now up to me and after my recent hospital experience, I’m up to the challenge.
God gave me a new spiritual heart when I was a teenager but at times, I neglected that plumbing, too. I have learned from God’s Word and personal experience that when my heart is kept clean, I not only think, walk and breathe better.
I whistle better, too!
By: Doug Fincher February 17, 2006
Three weeks ago, a stress test revealed that I had five blocked arteries (a 100%. three 90s and an 80%). We’d expected the test to be a waste of time since my blood pressure had consistently tested good. But what I didn’t know was that my strong heart had created new blood vessels that disguised these blockages. It took a stress to reveal my heart’s true condition.
The doctor that did the heart cauterization (reeking with graveside manners and a bizarre sense of humor) laughingly announced that I might drop dead at any moment and should go home, make a will and secure a burial spot. “You’ll probably die in the pulpit”, he laughed. My family doctor recommended a Nacogdoches heart surgeon to us and two days later, I had eight hours of bypass surgery and joyfully awakened that evening to see my sweet Pam, my son Mark and my two brothers smiling happily down into my eyes.
I’m early in my recovery period but am feeling the results of my heart’s clean plumbing already. I can take my own showers again, can walk outside to feed my birds ….and I’m whistling better than I have in years! Keeping my plumbing clean is now up to me and after my recent hospital experience, I’m up to the challenge.
God gave me a new spiritual heart when I was a teenager but at times, I neglected that plumbing, too. I have learned from God’s Word and personal experience that when my heart is kept clean, I not only think, walk and breathe better.
I whistle better, too!
By: Doug Fincher February 17, 2006