It is finally healing \u2013 the scar left following my ninth skin cancer surgery, and it\u2019s not my mother\u2019s fault.\u00a0 I remember my mother often telling me that if I was going to play outside, I needed to wear a hat.\u00a0 No way!\u00a0 Sissies wore hats.\u00a0 Many decades later, I am paying for my disobedience, as I endure one skin cancer surgery after another.\u00a0 I asked my Surgeon why I had so many skin cancers.\u00a0 His answer was, \u201cYou have fair skin, and you grew up in Texas.\u201d\u00a0 Obadiah didn\u2019t grow up in Texas, but he may have had a better answer, even though his comment is probably taken out of context – \u201cAs you have done, it shall be done to you\u201d (Obadiah 15).\u00a0 I played in the sun, without protection, and now the sun is paying me back.\u00a0 There really is a larger lesson here.\u00a0 When you disregard the laws \u2013 whether it be the laws of God or the laws of nature that God created \u2013 you can expect to have the results \u201cdone to you.\u201d\u00a0 Artists, to playwrights, to philosophers, to musicians all have referred to life as \u201ca day in the sun.\u201d\u00a0 Well, I had my day in the sun and now the sun is having its day in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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