{"id":3355,"date":"2017-08-17T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:27:50","slug":"carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think of a person\u2019s soul as see-through.
\nI think of it like lumber.
\nSome is hard, some soft. Some is flexible, some splinter and crack under strain.
\nBut I can\u2019t usually see through it.
\nWatching what cancer does to a person reveals the lie that a soul cannot be torn so thin it can be transparent and bare.
\nCancer does not work with a soul the way a saw works with lumber. There are no quick clean cuts, no straight edges. \"\"<\/a>
\nCancer scrapes along a person\u2019s soul the way a hand plane pulls ribbons from a pine plank.
\nIrene arrived in our home 4 months ago and I\u2019ve witnessed ribbon upon see-through ribbon be planed from her person by this disease.
\nYou would be so proud of my wife and the 24 hour care she lavishes on our precious Irene.
\nWhen the hand plane of cancer stripped Irene of her ability to walk more than 20 feet without stopping to catch her breath, Layne was there to hold her upright and wrap her in arms of love.
\nWhen Irene\u2019s lesion on her jaw clamped her teeth shut and refused her the ability to eat normal food, Layne was there to endlessly prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner in unceasing variety, all liquefied and made edible for Irene\u2019s handicapped state.
\n\"\"<\/a>When Irene began losing vision due to tumors and lesions in her brain, Layne was there to spend the hours it took for swelling to subside and vision to return.
\nWhen the hand plane passed again over Irene\u2019s ability to take her medication and morphine, Layne faithfully ensured that to the minute her 24-hour medication needs were met.
\nWhen Irene\u2019s pain management required hours and hours by her side praying, talking to her to get her mind off the agony, and holding her hand through mind-numbing suffering.
\nYou would be so proud.
\nAnd you would marvel at how thin a person can be shredded by this disease.
\nMaybe to a carpenter this all makes sense. But to the lumber it just hurts.
\nIt\u2019s easy to tell the lumber that in the end, it is made beautiful, but that don\u2019t seem to matter down here.
\nRibbons of transparent soul keep shedding from our precious Irene.
\nPlease pray that the carpenter finishes His work soon.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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