You'll Never Shout for Joy From the Peak of a Mountain You Did Not Climb
If I'm being completely honest, I did not like the person I became sometimes while I waited for transplant. In my defense, being told one needs a heart transplant is a fairly big deal. It's not something that can be coped with immediately. I needed every last minute of my 18-month wait to adjust. And even then--even now--it's a hard thing to wrap the mind around. In April of 2022 I was sitting in church pondering the words I was hearing. I don't know fully if it was said over the pulpit or if it was whispered by the Spirit, but I distinctly heard the instruction to ask the Lord to know what you need to strengthen and He will tell you. And that's exactly what I did. As I sat in sacrament meeting that day, I prayed to know what I could work on and improve. The answer: Patience and Long-suffering. A few short weeks later those words would need to become a mantra of sorts--actually, more of a chastisement as the transplant process began. The transplant team, while enth...