The Sharp End Of The Needle: Dealing with Diabetes, Dialysis, Transplant & The Medical Field

Available in Paperback and Hardback  230 pages with photos Gabriel of Urantia asked the question, in the beginning of his struggle with dialysis, "God, why is this happening to me?" Throughout his 8-month dialysis experience, 3 days a week, 4 hours a day, being tied down to a chair while his blood flowed from his body through a machine and back, he realizes—from the people he meets also on dialysis and in the hospitals after post-kidney-transplant—that very bad things happen to very good people. He met young and old alike, tied down to the machines just like he was, and the young people were the hardest for him to resolve in his mind with God and also to try to give them hope. As a human-rights minister, he felt obligated to do so. Being a Pastor of a church (Global Community Communications Alliance—a very social, environmental, and spiritual activist church), he knew that bad things happened to good people who try to change the world. But this disease is personal, between him and God