You Know What’s Just Awesome?

When doctors don’t call you back with lab test results.  Faaaantastic.  I’d put it right up there with Spring Forward on my list of things that are really…just great.  No better word for it.  In fact, they’ve prompted me to submit a little prayer to the Heavenly Office of Laboratory Accountability, Great Physician’s Desk:

Dear God,

1.  I try to write every single one of my fans back.  (Try, I don’t always succeed, but I try.)  They are important to me, and I love hearing their personal stories.  (Of course, I cannot diagnose them with step throat, cancer, diabetes, crossed-eyes, or hair loss based on my evaluation of what they send me.)

2.  I am extremely diligent about constant communication with my clients (in my other, lawyerly life).  I don’t even want to know how swiftly I’d get canned if I just plain old neglected to report back to a client on the outcome of his case.  (”Oh, but it was a good result!  We don’t call when results are good.”  Heard that one before?  I suppose I am lucky that I’m in a profession where giving good news to someone who has paid you good money to get it isn’t considered unduly burdensome.) 

3.  I grew up with a father who took in roughly five billion prayer requests a week.  Let’s not begin talking about what would have happened to him, had he not responded, in person and in depth, to every single one.  But, to be fair, I suppose that accountability for the blood of Christ is, overall, less stressful than accountability for someone’s pee in a cup.  And Dad did get paid that fantastic salary.  Let’s not forget that. 

I suppose what I’m asking here for, Christ, is a little Karma in the getting-a-response department.  I think I’m owed it.  I think…wait, what’s that?  “What in heaven’s name is ‘karma’,” you say? 

Oops.  Wrong religion again.  Dang it.           

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