Hit on the Head by God

He started whispering to me months ago.  Just little snippets here and there. I was listening. Really. I was just moving in the right direction a little slow, gradual like. Then about two weeks ago I got a call from an author who needed my help. She wanted to sit with me and work through her book page by page. WHAT? Are you kidding me? I don‘t have time for this!

Well, as it turned out all my other projects were coming to an end and there was nothing new on the horizon. So I said ok. 

Now for the boring background stuff. As many of you know I have had cancer 3 times. The cancer wasn’t all that bad. As tumors go they have been well behaved. Staying where they do minimal damage. But the Chemo is the pits. I HATE losing my hair. Pain – nothing I couldn’t handle (by handle I mean take a pill and sleep through it). But losing my hair each time was so demoralizing. It was like screaming to the world “Look at me. I have cancer.” When all I really wanted to do was just get through it without fuss or muss.  From the very beginning I had turned it over to God. “It is in your hands.” I said, “If I die, I die. If I live, I live. Your timing is perfect and it is not for me to question.”  Well, I haven’t died yet.  God provided perfect timing and the right people at the right time to take care of me.

Now, from several, no, many, different sources I am hearing sugar is the cause for cancer. I even happen to turn to a news program about the savvy internet patient -- “If you start to see the same thing from several sources there may be something to it: So, I say “Hmmmm, sugar? Give up sugar? Naaahhhh.”

Enter author: Judy Barnes Baker.  Her first book – Carb Wars, Sugar is the New Fat – I only did a little work on in 2007. She called me, out of the blue, needing my help.  Her publisher doesn’t want to make any more changes to her book. She thinks he doesn’t want to spend any more money on it. But she wants it to be right so, on her own dime, she would like to sit with me and go over all the things she wants changed. I never, I mean NEVER sit with an author breathing down my neck. But I have always been an admirer of Judy’s, so, I said I would do what I could.  Judy is like the information freak on nutrition. Her new book started out being sponsored by the Diabetic Assoc as a way for diabetics to eat healthy so that they could get off the meds and live normal lives. It turned into so much more. Every day we are together she spouts so much information I am dizzy by the time she leaves.

God has gotten tired of my putzing and hit me over the head.  God’s timing is perfect. Mine is not.