Kings, Queens and Coronations

The patient is getting his appetite back!  That is such good news.  He is eating again, small but regular meals.  Our medical procedures start this week, and I will be so glad when they are done.

We have the pre-op assessment - his; the hearing aid repair - hers; and the day surgery - his.

I guess the new Carolean Era has officially begun as King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey on a rainy Saturday.  We also have a new Queen, Camilla the First.  We watched the ceremony off and on, as we are both housebound, Col limited to slow zimmers between bed, armchair and computer chair, and me helping him in a zimmery sort of way.

We haven't come to blows over whose turn it is for the zimmer yet, but I fear it may only be a matter of time.

We felt for the newly crowned couple, as they are the same age as us.  It must have seemed a very long day. They stood up to it all well as far as we know - we last saw them on the balcony in their heavy crowns, his more blingy, hers more elegant, waving to the crowds that had packed The Mall.

There was a sadness about it all.  Or was the sadness in me, not the occasion?

But the King we need, and long for, is the King of Jehovah's Kingdom, Jesus Christ, the rider on the white horse of the book of Revelation.  He knows and loves every one of his subjects.  And he will lead us back to our Creator, Jehovah, and to the life and perfection that our first parents so tragically lost.

Jesus called himself "the door for the sheep".

"So Jesus said again: “Most truly I say to you, I am the door for the sheep.
All those who have come in place of me are thieves and plunderers; but the sheep have not listened to them.
I am the door; whoever enters through me will be saved, and that one will go in and out and find pasturage.
The thief does not come unless it is to steal and slay and destroy.
 I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.
I am the fine shepherd;
 the fine shepherd surrenders his life in behalf of the sheep. - John 10:7-11

Jesus said he came so that we might have life - and in abundance.  Through the ransom sacrifice of his perfect human life we can live forever in the restored earthly paradise, enjoying "the glorious freedom of the children of God". 

It is a freedom that we, the damaged children of Adam, have never yet known.

In the meantime, I wish our new King and Queen well, and hope that they will seek for their Creator and really find him.  They will find a joy and freedom in the restored earthly paradise that "the world" cannot ever give.