6.30-Reflections on a NDE, Near Death Experience

6.30am

Reflections on a NDE, Near Death Experience

1 Corinthians 3.10

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

Wednesday, 6.28.17,  at about 12.30pm I began and new life. 

I was headed to my normal workout at the North Richland Hills Centre.

I could have easily been a quadrapelgic for the rest of my life.  I could have been killed instantly because I did something very stupid and foolish.  I was approaching a traffic light in North Richland Hills at the corner of Meadow Road and Chapman Drive just north of Mid Cities and east of Rufe Snow and West of Davis.

Please don't look at screens and smart phones when you drive.

On Wednesday, 6.28. 17, I was casually living and driving and listening to talk radio and on my car digital screen on my, flashed these words “You have email.”  I looked at it for a half a second and did not touch the screen.  I was approaching the traffic light.  I was not going fast but in that half a second I did not get enough time to look at the light, determine whether it was red, yellow or green.  

 I was out in the intersection and coming at me from east to west on Chapman Drive was a White Van doing coming fast.  I floored the HRV.  It jumped forward without hesitation. The Van did not slow or hit his brakes.  He either could not slow or did not want to.  He missed me by a two or three feet I think.  

 My heart jumped.  I said to myself, "You could be dead right now.  According to your beliefs you are a child of God and might be in heaven by God’s mercy and grace, but you could be a quadraplegic.  The driver and passenger in the van could be dead or quadraplegic.  All because you looked at that screen instead of drove with thought and intention."

I have been awake since then all except three or four hours on Wednesday night.

I’m alive.  I’m not quadriplegic. I want to live. 

 I want to spend every moment that I can enjoying the friendship and fellowship with my wife.

I want to encourage my children and grandchildren by taking note of special days in their lives from birthdays to anniversaries or graduations or weddings.

I want to be there for my family and friends when they are going through times of suffering and grief and to celebrate with them when they experience overcoming moments and victories.

I don’t want to be drugged out of my mind by drugs, alcohol, overeating and underexcercising but also don’t way to be distracted from real life by the superficial life of “friends” on social media.

I want to see things with new eyes, hear with new ears, think with a renewed mind and I want to communicate the goodness of God with loving encouragement and service and if I have extra hobby time, my smart phone, social media, and my Favorite Verses Blog.

I want to say what I mean with clarity and brevity with a filter of love and grace, but without too much concern about what pleases anyone but God who is in charge of my life.

It is now over 37 hours since that happened.

1.00pm, Drove carefully to North Richland Hills Centre (NRHC) Worked-out with weights

2.30pm, Lunch with Sheila and admitted my foolish drive and near death experience.

3.00pm, Called a friend who had a bike accident with a concussion and two days in ICU.

6.00am, Carefully drove to breakfast and encouragment  meeting with four men at Chic Fila discussing how to be uplifted through Scripture and common experiences.  Told them about my foolish mistake and asked them to be careful when driving.

Please don't look at screens and smart phones when you drive.

7.00am, Reflecting on how to enjoy this day with Sheila.  I decided to spend every moment possible with her.

7.13am, Took a picture of a rose connected to the plant getting proper nourishment and another of a rose cut off of the plant.

7.15am, Took notes from my mediation journal regarding things I had collected in thoughts and pictures that might be communicated to family and friends and other learners who are encouraged by reflecting on their favorite verses.

9.am, Wrote a Facebook post, then another, then another and a blogpost with my two rose pictures.

10am, Directed on Facebook post to move the highly interested to a longer piece on my blog, 

Favorite Verses.

10.30am, Breakfast with Sheila.

11.am, Conversation with my daughter, Amy, and mother of my two grandkids.

Please don't look at screens and smart phones when you drive.

11.45am, Carefully drove to NRHC for workout in the lazy river with Sheila.  Showed her the intersection where I had been given a new life at age 70.

12.13am, Started walking in the lazy river.

12.53pm, Quit walking in the lazy river. 

12.55pm, Started enjoying the hot tub.  Visited with Jim, 83, who has been caring with his wife for a special needs son for over 50 years and listened to him tell about almost dying of cancer ten years earlier.  He described his overcoming with quite a nice smile.

1.10pm, Got out of the hot tub.

1.45pm, Carefully drove home and had lunch with Sheila. 

7.00pm, Watched a Masterpiece Theatre Presentation, My Mother and other Strangers.  It reflected on the security felt in families where there was longevity and commitment was seen in the family relationships through good times and bad times. 

12.30am, Took some time to read my mother’s journal of 1967, the year we got married.  

 Read that on 6.29.67 we had bought our wedding rings and brought them to her house to show her and dad our rings we bought at Zale’s Northpark, Dallas.

1.am, Took a picture Sheila’s wedding ring from Zale’s along with the note from my mother’s journal making note of the date. (I lost my ring bought at Zale’s in 1970)

1am to 2.20am, Summarizing what I have been thinking and doing in the last 38 hours. 

Please don't look at screens and smart phones when you drive.  

2.45am, Posted to my Blog

Larry Wishard
6.30.17