Hammering in Hackberry

[Jolly]

As most of y'all know, my wife was an ophthalmic tech and worked many years for a doc in town. The doc had an amazing group of kids, three boys, two girls. The kids are all successful, the boys are an ophthalmologist, a corporate lawyer, and an accountant who owns a manufacturing plant. The girls are a college professor and a NP. They all have a very quiet, very deep Christian faith.

My wife was checking on the doc and his wife this morning, because she had been told he was scheduled for another neck surgery. He's kind of picky about who works on him and what technique is used, so he will have his surgery done in Austin, and recuperate at his daughter's home. In passing, she asked about the kids and was told all were doing well. In fact, Kerry was in Louisiana, helping to repair church roofs. Yesterday, he was with a group from his church, working on a church in Hackberry.

That's pretty amazing.

Kerry is the ophthalmologist. He doesn't do surgery anymore, even though he should be at the top of his game, being in his late 50's. Parkinson's does bad things to your hands. I don't know if he is hammering roofing nails (his dad bought and redid older houses, making the boys learn carpentry skills), stirring a soup pot, or just handling logistics. But he is called to be there, along with a group of guys from his Virginia church.

God Bless the Kerrys of this world, who may not be in the best of health, but will drive halfway across the country to help people who truly, desperately need it. We saw it after Katrina, we see it after every major disaster.

If you tune out the barking media dogs, you will find there are still good people in the world.