A Vision to Behold...

Today I attended Mary's church which isn't very far from the house (by car.) Mary always walks there which takes her about an hour but by car it takes about 15 minutes. Anyways, it was a very large church and the service was really good. But, what was most amazing is to see the vass mixture of cultures/races all intermixed and united as one body! The view of Caucasian, Mexican, African, Chinese, and many many others is definitely one to behold. I had forgotten this from our last visit where we went to another very large church with Jennie & her family (Jack & Arlene's daughter.) In the Welcome center of Mary's church everyone was talking with one another regardless of the others skin color or culture or language differences. By just being still and listening, you heard folks speaking English but with a heavy array of accents such as Spanish, Chinese, African (which Mary has), British, etc. It was really neat to see and hear!

Anyways, during the welcome/greeting time I had a lady come over to me and say (in a British accent) "I want to apologize because I saw you and your daughter downstairs and I wanted to speak to you but didn't." I told her there was no need to apologize to me! She went on to say she was familiar with Miata's bandage and asked me if she had ear surgery. I said, "yes." She told me that her husband (whom I met a few minutes later) had a brother that was born without an ear! He had undergone surgery many years earlier (early 90's I think she said) to also correct his birth defect. He is now in his 50's and has been most pleased by gaining an ear! She said what we were doing for Miata is giving her a wonderful gift that she will be most pleased with for the rest of her life! We talked for quite awhile and I asked her if her brother in law also had the surgery to open his ear canal for him to hear. She said no, that he said he had lived his entire life up to that point the way that it was and was use to it like that so he opted not to have that surgery done. He was happy in the fact he knew it was an option just in case anything ever happened to his one hearing ear knowing that he could always have that done to restore hearing in the other ear.

Anyways, I left there in amazement that in a city of about 59,000 again someone had approached us regarding knowledge of this condition!! If you recall from our last visit here in November, we were approached by a lady, while at a small local playground, who was familiar with this condition and even knew a couple of the doctors who perform surgeries for it. Go to post: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 to read more.

Well, that was the first half of our day. The last half was equally as interesting but I will have to post about it a little later. Right now it's time to help Miata finish more of her school work.