The setting is Medieval England during one of the great plagues. A couple of peasants walk through the village. They are pushing a wheelbarrow piled high with those who died from the plague. As they walk they call out, “Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!” A man is tossed on top of the pile of bodies. He lifts his head and exclaims, “Wait, I’m not dead yet!”
Our hopes and dreams for the future seem gone. Things we used to do seem gone. Our loftiest aspiration these days is to manage a shower and remember to take our meds. Have you tossed yourself on the pile? Have you given yourself up for dead? Or will you cry out, “Wait, I’m not dead yet?” And here is the most amazing thing; the empty places left as a result of chronic illness create space so we can see clearly things we never considered before. I’m not dead yet, are you?
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