Surgery

Well I finally did it. After putzing around for two years with major problems in my sinus cavities I had surgery to correct my deviated septum, remove the polyps and clear the air passage as much as possible. Slowly but surely my sense of smell was disappearing. I began to think my farts did not smell...and that can be embarrassing. Without my sense of smell I was to a degree out of touch with the world around me. Sure everything looked and sounded the same and we can certainly live more easily without a sense of smell than sight or sound.

Living in sexual sin is like that. On the outside you might look and seem the same to others around you...bus something is missing. I think you begin to miss what adds joy to life. Joy in our relationships is what we live for. But when we are in isolation and living with secret sin we are not ourselves and we do not connect with people the way we could if we were being honest.

Eat a meal without a sense of small and eating become purely a functional activity to keep the body going. It is the sense of taste and smell that makes a meal a delicious activity. Like in relationships...it is the sense of intimacy with people that makes the relationship deep and satisfying. But I cannot have that if I am hiding from the other person.

Where do you need surgery in your life?