Tuesday, July 23- Just Call Me Snowball!

     I would guess (because most of the good folks that read this daily are reasonable, appropriate…sane folks) that you are not a big fan of Pinky and the Brain. “Pinky and the WHAT, Pastor? Never heard of it!” Like I said! Pinky and the Brain was a WB cartoon that was on TV from 1995 – 1998. My family (you HAVE to understand that we are not…normal!) watched it EVERY week! (As I recall, it ran on Sunday nights! I’m not sure what that says about us!!) 
     It was a show about 2 laboratory mice…Pinky and the Brain…who spend each evening, after the lab staff goes home for the day, trying to take over the world. Each episode, they would ALMOST succeed in their quest, but at the last minute, Pinky would do something stupid and spoil the whole thing. (Think “Gilligan’s Island” as they tried to get off the island every week!)
     There are many goofy episodes I remember, but the one that comes to mind was an episode from 1996 simply called Snowball. The “guest star: of the week was a laboratory guinea pig named…well…Snowball. He was the Brain’s arch-enemy and the whole episode was about them trying to foil each other’s plans for world domination. In the end, the ever-dangerous Snowball lost…and went back to being nothing more than a laboratory guinea pig.
     “Well, WHAT it the world does some goofy cartoon from 1996 about some goofy guinea pig have to do with YOU, Pastor?” Thanks foe asking! Starting today…just call me Snowball! Early this afternoon, I meet with a doctor who specializes in oncology and immunology. I will spend an hour talking with him. And when that hour is over, the good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, I will FINALLY have a treatment plan to deal with this…THING…in my head. (I’m not going to lie- if, at the end of the hour, the doctor tells me to leave WITHOUT a plan…I’m going to drop to the floor, right there in his office, in front of God and everybody, and throw a monumental fit, worthy of the most precocious 4-year old you’ve ever seen!)
      “Why are you Snowball?”, you patiently ask, wishing I would stay on track. I am Snowball because there is NO real “roadmap” for treatment for what I have. There are so few cases of what I have where I have it (18, to be exact), that there is simply not much in the way of previous examples to go from. So…the doctor is simply going to have to make his best guess, step out in faith and TRY something- run it up the flagpole and see if anybody is willing to salute it!
     Does that fact scare me? Does it worry me? Do I worry about receiving a “best-guess” treatment? Not in the least! I have done enough reading since this…THING…was discovered in my head on May 28th to know that there is nothing conventional about it. Therefore, I gave up on conventional several weeks ago. I’m ready for…experimental! I’m ready for, “Let’s give this a shot!” I’m ready for…SNOWBALL!
     Thanks for stopping by- I pray you have a blessed day! Please make sure and come back again tomorrow, and stick with Jesus!
 Tomorrow- Jesus in the Gospels: The Book of Matthew- Digging Deeper