An Oxymoron: A Preacher w/No Voice

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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:03:22 +0000 Don Haymon <oneof3ds@earthlink.net> 
writes:
>> Greetings to the H-F list.
>> 
>> What is a Preacher with no voice?
>> What is a nightingale with no song?
>> What is a herald with no message?
>> 
>> Oh well, that's enough of a pity party!!!!!  I'm fine, I've just been 
>> ordered by my vocal specialists to begin a 10-day voice rest!
>> 
>> Last Sunday night, I stood in the pulpit with a message burning inside, 
>> just said a few opening remarks, read the text--then, MY VOICE WAS GONE!	  
>> I was forced to turn the service over to my father (who has always been 
>> my model for "pulpiteering") and, of course, I was blessed by his 
>> preaching!!
>> 
>> Folks, I went straight to the voice specialist Monday.  He took some 
>> pictures down my throat then referred me to another voice specialist 
>> who, just today (Wednesday) made a strobe video tape of my voice while 
>> talking.
>> 
>> The findings were: A nodule on my right True Vocal Cord; a polyp  and a 
>> hemorrage  on my left True Vocal Cord.
>> 
>> The Plan: TOTAL VOICE REST for 10 days.  (ie., no talking, no 
>> whispering, no laughing (for you Penecostal humor folks  :)), no 
>> preaching, no talking on the phone, no lifting anything over 5 lbs, no 
>> throat clearing, no coughing.
>> 
>> 5 hours have gone by and I've done o.k.  It's tough, though!  9 and 3/4 
>> days to go!!!!
>> 
>> Would you whisper a prayer for me and those around me?
>> 
>> I plan to be "Internetting" more than usual in the next 10 days.  Stop 
>> by our homepage once in a while and see the changes.
>> 
>> God bless you and your's,
>> 
>> Don Haymon, II
>> oneof3ds@earthlink.net
>> http://www.wp.com/Calvary/

Bro.Haymon,
Reminds me of a fat man on a diet at a banquet.
He loves to eat but it could hurt him.Maybe*WILL* is abeter coice of words.

Larry Bunch
henryrna@juno.com