…so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.   (Colossians 1:18)

What a meeting! My brother-in-law’s heart transplant team stood in his room post-transplant, grinning and laughing like a room full of kids in an all-you-can-eat-for-free chocolate candy store. They laughed in several languages. One giggled in Polish. All of them were giddy with delight at the success of the transplant.

At one point, the heavily accented, near seven foot tall German chief surgeon put his hands together recalling the moment he clutched the new heart and described how he knew it was strong and the one—especially after ten months of waiting and one failed attempt. I can see his hands together and that indescribable delight right now.



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