When the Truth and False Comes Out....By Denny C.

            Many times when a person has had a severe brain injury, they can have many changes in their future.  Sometimes it’s their work life, their marriage life, their financial life, and their spiritual life.  And all of the uncertainty, the possible hurt, and major life changes can cause them to wonder, “Why have lived in the 1^st place?”   You see, this was me.   Notice I say it “was” me!     

            When I got released form T.I.R.R. in patient and then started out patient, my married life was the 1^st one that went on the brink.  My former wife is disabled and I believe to this day, that she thought if I wasn’t all there, and the possibility that I would never recover, that she would be stuck holding the bag and wouldn’t be able to make it.  I have never had any hard feelings over that possible fear and thinking she might have had!

            That could have happened to anyone, but there are other issues that came up which I will not go into, on this post.  But what did happen, ruined my work life that can never be undone.  Let me just say that when I lived, it set a path for me and those related to me, that has even swayed my children in a way toward things that are untrue.

            There were from those days many false rumors that went out about my private life, that were proven to be false from every way possible, but we live in a  world where people love to gossip , and they love to gossip about stories that were told by their spouses, children, friends, and even preachers!

            And unfortunately those, who I loved dearly, who really stabbed me in the heart with their words, judgments, and actions.  I fully believe in the verse where it is said, “Judge not, that you be not judged!”  And if the religion they follow is to put everyone, except themselves, on the must be perfect, on the level with the Lord, they have missed the point of the grace of God entirely!

            Let me say this one time only, there has been and will never be any perfect person that has walked the face of this earth, except one, Jesus the Christ, the son of God!  I got so tired of listening to the gossip stories that went on between certain preachers, and certain members of the church of Christ!   

            My grandma Holloway always told me, “If you don’t have something positive to say, then don’t say it!”  Now I must admit, when I was young, I never followed her advice on that subject. I have been just as guilty of talking about a person and the mistakes they made in a way that I have never made any mistakes!  You see my friend that is a sin!  And the Lord’s said it best when He said, “To him who is without sin, cast the first stone.”  This he said to an adulteress who was going to be stoned by the holy that thou group of that day. That verse has hung in my head for decades!   Turn on the news, listen to the men and the ladies in their conversation outside of worship, work, school, or with the family when they are together.  How many times do we or others around us, repeat what we have been told or seen on the television, or heard on the radio, or something through media, or something told to us by a person?

             Well I think I’ll get off my soap box now!  But again I have spoken to many souls who have had major physical life stories and for some of them, they are even worse than mine!  And let me leave you with the following question.  If you never knew them or heard them say it, or saw them do it, how do you now it’s true?  Only the Father in heaven can see all and know all, as to the truth that is in the heart of every one of us and what is buried deeply in our thoughts and hearts!