HELLO FRIENDS...A REMEMBERAMBLE, December 18, 2025

Yes, it is "Hello Friends" time once more, and I sure am glad to join you in conversation again. I had an appointment with Dr. Abraham Lin of Statesboro Cardiology, to review my recent cardiac cath procedure and to discuss and set a time to finish this phase of intervention into my cardiac/vascular deficiencies.

I am scheduled to return to the cath lab at Statesboro's hospital on December 29, for a cath and placement of stents to open vessels that are almost blocked. I am not scared, anxious, nor worried, I know God is with me, and I with Him. It is a testament to the power of Faith.

Despite advanced cataracts, arthritis, COPD, CHF, blocked arteries, being overweight, brain fog, along with other wonderful things, such as no income, I have remained upbeat and optimistic. I spoke last night at New Beginnings in Christ, and fellowshipped with the men, and with my old friend Paul Adams.

As we closed the meeting, the men all laid hands upon me, and prayed. That is always a moving experience, when you feel that electric, soul filling surge of the Holy Ghost in communion with you and those who are lifting prayers for you, coming on strong, none could deny the power that is there.

God is willing and able, and if am willing and able to be a vessel, He will fill me to overflowing, and will do so for you too. It is akin to God's Salvation, and is yours and mine for the asking. Who am I to say no to that!? So, through this rough patch, I am mindful that so many others are burdened and more heavily laden than I could even fathom.

God has not given to me to be sad of spirit, nor brokenhearted, but to stand for what I face as a man should. If had to walk far, far away, tired, and in an alien land, I would falter and fall. But if I must walk far, far away, through an alien land, laden by exhaustion, and you, and you, and you over there, and many others were with me, and God gave you strength to help me, then if need be, he will give me to help you.

If we walk alone, burdened, weak and weary, it is of our choosing to do so. If you hear in your heart that none will walk with you, that is satan's lie!

God gave us His assurance of his help, and His presence in times of trouble, and His word never said it better nor more beautifully than in His 23rd Psalm.

I look forward to hosting better blood flow in my "nogginus-maximus caput os," which is kind'a, Georgia Swamp-Latin for, "big ole bonehead." It would seem, since I am not working now, and get lots of rest, that I should be turning and churning words like Shakespeare in a whirlpool!

But, did you know that your brain is tired when you are tired, and my brain is very tired indeed. I looked it up, and the average brain burns 300-500 calories each day. That is referencing average brains, like yours. Yes, your average brain. So, I imagine and you must admit you find it believable that mine must buzz through maybe, 307-503 calories each and every day.

This is why you have gas so often, your brain burns so very little of it.

The rain has been quite nice, I love rain. I admit that I am an odd duck, that I am hard to figure at times, and although I do not always go with the flow, I try not to block the shipping lanes. Christmas is almost here, and I recall how the last few days before Christmas crawled by so slowly when we were so very young, the wait was an agony.

I generally write a Christmas story each year before Christmas, and I may yet do so, but it won't be a barn-burner, nor be very long, because of the oxygen-starved state of my "bwain," as babee Conway says. We boyz three are fat and happy, filled with joy, and the spirit of the elusive, "real meaning of Christmas," as the heathern TV folks say.

Charlie Brown and others might search for it, but they look in all of the wrong places. We know, don't we? Yes, the true meaning of Christmas has been known for two-thousand years, and more.

With all of our love, "we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me