Asking for Your Considerations

[Allan Balliett]

Folks -

I've really been through the ringer since the July of this year. Just take my word for it, if you will, but life has been hell.

As an upshot of the jangled frazzled energy I was accumulating as I was most literally being chased by the Devil this month, I took a fall some distance and broke the arch of my left foot as all 230 Saggitarious pounds came down on the one bare foot. The break moves like a river on a map of northern texas down and across the upper bone of my left foot, the bone that runs down to the 2nd toe. This happened a week ago Monday. The foot is still swollen and still pretty much purple. (It is in a cast but the Dr removed the cast yesterday to check for tendon damage.) They want to leave the cast on for another 6 weeks.

It's killing me to be on crutches. It's REALLY screwing up preparations for next season, also. Worse, I fear that people who are being generous with me due to my abilities may soon lose patience when presented with the counterproductivity of my inabilities.

What I want to ask is for everyone to visualize my foot healed (size 13!!) and useful again. Please do this whenever you think of it, or when you pray alone or in groups or during your contemplations. Just imagine my left foot painless, complete, and the ankle free to rotate in all directions. I really do believe in the power of prayer and I'd really like to take advantage of the good thoughts of all the good souls who read this list. This will only work, of course, if you can make some time to think me well.

Do you mind?

Gracias!!

-Allan Balliett
Shepherdstown, WV