I'm all for it.

I gave my heart to my wife

 

i know this a bit iff the subject yet

 

I gave my heart to Christ on oct 23 1994.

 

Now I know Christ will make room for the one

 

to accept and take care of my heart along with Christ~

 

Love sissa~

I'm against it.  I believe that since God has the power of life and death in His hands, that there is nothing man can do that truly saves a life.  Having said that, God says it's according to your faith.  So, if you need "man" to participate in saving your life that's fine, because God has given him the wisdom and skills to help out.  If your faith is strong enough, you can go straight to God just like Hezekiah and Job, and so many others, and wait for your healing.   By His stripes we are healed, not by the transplant.  It's okay either way you go with this as long as you understand that God is doing the work; and if you are going to die, you will whether you get the transplant or not.  And if you are going to live you will do so with or without the transplant.  It's all in God's hands.

 

Like I tell my coworkers in the biz (healthcare):  you guys are "practicing physicians" -- you ain't never gonna get it right! LOL

 

 

 

I believe that God gave each of us life, and He alone determines when it is over.  We may think we have some control over it, but we really, truly don't.  I would hope my prayers would be powerful enough, my faith strong enough, and my God faithful enough to deliver us in our time of need.  I would do all that I could short of that.  In my family  we have passed down a disease in which there is no cure, and our organs will fail in time.  It has not skipped a generation yet.  I have been dealing with that very issue of if and/or when my kidneys fail will I go on dialysis, will I accept a transplant.  My daughter suffers from the same disease, as did my father before me.  It is not an easy decision to make, but I asking God for a closer walk, more strength, more power, faith that will move a mountain.  I believe He can do it, even if He chooses not to do it.  At 55 with 30 yrs of dealing with this thing, I should be worse off than I am.  I believe -- no I Know -- it is God that is keeping me.

MinisterBT,

 

Will you take medication to deal with your disease?

 

Why did you have children in the first place? I'd have thought you to be unacceptable breeding stock.

Oh, I wouldn't refer to myself as "breeding stock."  That doesn't sound proper when referring to a lady and a child of God.  But, I disgress.  First of all, I had no idea I had such a disease in the family.  You know back in the day ole' folks didn't talk much about nutt'n.  Each generation had to find stuff out for themselves.  So that's how I found out.  When I was diagnosed in my early 20s, after the birth of my child.

 

I take some meds sometimes, stop when I feel like it, start again when my doc puts a frown on her face :(.   Everything is according to your faith.  I'm not professing to be some supper Christian, just a Christian try'n to grow closer and closer to God each day.  I don't always do what the docs tell me, I listen to what they say, I consider my options, I pray and as the Elders of the church to pray for me, and then I decide what I'm going to do.  I don't obediently just take stuff  'cause the doctor says so.  They tell me that it so I can have a better quality of life.  Well, I believe I have that already in Christ Jesus.  I am happy, Holy, and Heaven-bound.  Don't have no reason to be sad, depressed, or stressed.  So, I take it one day at a time, one prayer at a time.

Good for you BT - no offense is intended when I refer to you as "breeding stock" but in honesty I do believe that is how we should also assess our potential spouses.  It makes absolutely no good sense to me whatsoever for people who knowingly have hereditary disease to marry and have children, potentially with someone else who has bad genes also.  That statement doesn't apply to you because you didn't know what you had.

 

I think if the quality of someone's life is going to be improved through organ donation then that is a very good reason to donate and accept organs.  God has blessed [most]doctors with knowledge and wisdom to heal the physical human body and so I don't think that is a gift that should necessarily be squandered if we can at all help it.

 

You don't appear to be someone who is stressed and depressed - like you, I think we all need to learn to take each day as it comes.

From: <NOBR>Bible-Gazer</NOBR>

Sent: 7/14/2008 8:23 PM

I gave my heart to my wife

My kids sure seem to have been wantin' an arm and a leg!

lol kiki....

 

I figure I have no use for my organs when I'm dead and gone so why not let someone else have improved quality of life?

 

My DH does not wish to be an organ donor - he simply cannot bring himself to allow someone to have his organs after he dies.