Wasted Time

The band Eagles’ 1976 hit song, Wasted Time, soulfully examines how relationships that do not work out are not necessarily a waste of time. We can learn from each relationship, good and bad.

I call that relational wisdom … discernment that grows out of Life’s experiences.

As for Duchenne, that dream killing monster is an exceedingly painful experience for our family as we watch our wonderful grandson increasingly show effects of the creeping weakness.

At the same time, we are observing a pandemic of once in a lifetime proportions that is infecting or killing many tens of thousands, and scaring tens of millions, of folks across the world, including in our always resilient Volunteer state.

Questioning God on the reason for such inexplicable hurt always leads me back to His unconditional Grace as exemplified by His Son’s life lessons, death and resurrection which, when acknowledged, always heals my soul and diverts my attention from the “Why? question to a much more productive “What do I do now?” perspective.

Whether we search for mitigating treatments for COVID-19 or Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or other horrible rare diseases, let’s encourage our leaders, governmental agencies, and lab researchers to pick up the pace to find mitigating treatments as soon as possible before tens of thousands of people die by the time solutions are found.

What can you and I personally do to help avert such a tragedy in the making, whether we are talking about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or the COVID-19 virus?

Let’s not waste valuable time to work smarter and not just harder to end these plagues.  

Kindly in Tennessee,

Papa