Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Speaker 1  00:02

I just recently had open heart surgery. I thought that I had indigestion, and I worked in medicine over 40 something years, and I remembered a conference that I went to, and they taught us about the differences between the heart attack for a woman versus a man, and one of the things was a woman thinks she’s having indigestion. And I said, oh, and I was sitting in the bathroom, and all of a sudden I felt something radiating on my left arm, and I called out to my husband, needless to say, almost one year ago, I went into the ER and had a heart attack while my husband went to the parking lot to park the car. It happened just that fast. While I was in the hospital, I didn’t want to be there, but the Lord opened that door, and I tell you, I called the nurses that took care of me. I called them my little posse, because they took care of me like you would not believe. But I had so many opportunities to talk to people, because they were saying, you know, Are you in pain? Are you okay? I say, No, sweetheart, I’m fine. And I began to look at all those people that put their lives on the line every day to come and take care of me, and I began to tell them how grateful I was. Thank you for coming today. I was able to talk to one of the texts she was talking, so I was listening. And I think that’s the thing too. We’ve stopped listening to people because we’re so self-absorbed with what’s going on in our lives. And I was laying there, she was fixing to take some pressure off my lungs, and I had never had that procedure before, and I told her, I said, you know, this is kind of scary. You’re going to stick a needle in there. And she began to talk, but in that conversation came out her depression and how she was feeling that God had forgotten about her. How many people think God has forgotten about you? But I’m here to tell you that every day you are on his mind, he thinks about you all day long. Why do you say that? Because even in the midst of me being in the hospital, I could see the hand of God. I could see the kindness of the nurses. I could see the favor of God, because I got extra grapes and I got extra pineapple and I got extra when they found out all the little things that I liked when I would wake up, sometimes I’d have an extra pear, I’d have an extra apple, and I’d lay there and I’d say, Thank you, God, I see you. I see you. But I’m firm in my belief that there is a heaven and there is a hell, and because of that, I want to help as many people. Want to be a great day to see all these people that you’ve talked to about Jesus, and they decide to go talking about a reunion. Never mind the 20th year reunion for classes and high schools and college, that will be a great reunion. But all the times I go to the grocery my husband sometimes he’s like, Oh, there she goes. I don’t care whether it’s in the vegetable department, the meat department, ice cream. Doors opening doesn’t matter. Don’t miss the opportunity to share your faith.