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From: rodhugen
Date: Wed Nov 26 06:58:42 EST 2008 Subject: Funny connections

It is four in the morning and I have the drug jitters again. I get all shaky and sweaty and can’t sleep and have this strange nervous energy that makes me feel crazier than I normally feel. I went to the eye doctor yesterday. We discovered we had both graduated from Grand Canyon University. He serves on the governing board of the school and was bemoaning the fact that the school had been sold and was no longer the solid Southern Baptist school it was in our day. We talked a bit about former professors and he asked me who taught me New Testament and I couldn’t remember the name, but did remember that he was also the President of the college and that he was young and athletic and fell over dead during a student/faculty basketball game. Neither of us could come up with the name, but we remembered the next president, Dr. Bill Williams. I jokingly told the eye doctor that I had a beef with Dr. Williams since he strongly encouraged me to take a hideously advanced mathematics course. I was a deer in headlights from the first day of class to the last and received a D mostly for just showing up and staring.

Dr. Lynch, my eye doctor, said we should remedy not knowing who the Bible professor was, picked up his cell phone, and called Dr. Williams. They chatted briefly and Dr. Lynch told me the name which instantly brought back a flood of memories. Suddenly Dr. Lynch was handing me the phone and telling me to say hello to Dr. Williams. I always feel awkward in those situations and unsure what to say to a man I had for a couple math courses thirty years ago. Dr. Williams apologized for not remembering me and I mentioned that it was just as well since I was a bit angry with him for making me take an advanced course that I was clueless in. He said, “Ohh, I remember you now. Very tall. Big, low voice. Very thin.” I told him that the first two were still accurate, but sadly not the last.

He remembered the conversation we had in his office. My reluctance, his insistence. I had done well on some mathematics placement exam so he thought I was a natural and he remembers feeling badly for me and deciding to pass me because I showed up to class and tried. He asked what I was doing these days and I told him I was a pastor. He said, “Ahh, so you didn’t use that business degree we handed you, and we misjudged your math abilities, so we really didn’t really help you much at all, did we?” I laughed and asked how he knew I had a business degree. He said he also remembered that I was really smart and was a Calvinist out of some Presbyterian background and how much fun the New Testament professor had using me to challenge the convictions of would-be Southern Baptist pastors. He talked about my grades not being a reflection of my intelligence and how happy he was that I had chosen to use the abilities God gave me in the field of ministry. I told him I was a little startled at all that he remembered about me and he said, “We were a small school then. Only a few hundred students and a small faculty. Besides, you sort of stood out.” I responded by saying that I was indeed tall. He said, “No, you stood out because of your passion for God and the way you carried your faith. Of course, the height did help.” We chatted a while longer and I thanked him for his life and his influence dedicated to educating people like me. He got a bit choked up and said it was his greatest joy to see the light of learning come on in a student’s face. I reminded him that the light never dawned in that stinking advanced course and we ended our conversation laughing. He invited me to come for lunch or coffee the next time I am in Phoenix.

Dr. Lynch wouldn’t charge me for his services. I am a pastor, he said, and a five pointer and it was ordained of God that he should offer me his services to me without fee. Funny guy. He is worried about my eyes. He measured the corneas and they are very thin. Apparently that is not good. I’ve been having lots of trouble seeing especially in the early morning. Even with my glasses, I have a hard time seeing the screen or reading a book in the morning. The last time I was there he suggested that he believes I sleep with my eyes open and that they don’t get proper rest. He said I should try to sleep in a dark room and I told him about ADD and drug jitters and how nuts I am. The drops he gave me made no significant change. He scheduled me for some kind of new exam in December. I am not sure what it does. He said my right eye, which is the only eye I use, also has severe damage to it. He said it won’t matter much to try to fix it if Jesus returns soon, but if he tarries I will need these eyes for a while so he wants to get to the bottom of the problem.

Funny connections we make in this world.

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