Celebrating Birthdays

For those of you that know me, you know that it's not the day that I was brought into this world by my parents. But it is a date of great significance to me, on two counts. 

The first date was May 5, 1975. That was the day on which I was baptized into Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins. That was my rebirth, the beginning of my spiritual journey. Wow, that was 50 years ago. 

The second date was May 5, 2021. For a long time I had been having a lot of trouble with shortness of breath. My personal care physician kept saying that I just needed to exercise and lose weight. But then it got really bad to where I could barely walk to the mailbox and back. So I told him to order some more extensive testing and he referred me to a cardiologist. After a few tests and a heart cath, I was scheduled for a triple bypass. Two of the three arteries they would be replacing were 100% blocked, one of which was the one they call the "Widow Maker". So, four years ago on this date I had what we might call my physical rebirth, because I was given a new life.