{"id":4075,"date":"2019-03-27T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2019-02-04T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:40:36","slug":"escaping-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2019\/03\/escaping-cliches.html","title":{"rendered":"Escaping cliches&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took three times in a row for me to hear, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, Cheryl, I\u2019m in control,\u201d for it to stick. A freak explosion of fire in the heavy equipment I was operating, distracted me. Clothes on fire, I escaped from an open window in the cab.<\/p>\n<p>I have no recollection of jumping and crashing onto the ground before finding myself in the emergency room, going in and out of the consciousness that God is my life. X-rays were taken. The doctor went to find a surgeon to fix my bleeding liver, \u201cbecause they can be fatal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The surgeon arrived and sat watching the monitors I was hooked to. \u201cYou\u2019re stabilizing,\u201d he said contemplatively. The liver surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2018\/12\/escaping-self-harm.html\">wasn\u2019t performed<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t necessary, and that was twenty-years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But something else happened during the three days I was in the hospital. <a href=\"https:\/\/healingsciencetoday.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/29\/introduction-to-21st-century-science-and-health\/\">Gratitude escaped m<\/a>y clich\u00e9 definition of looking on the bright side. Gratitude welled, permeated, and saturated my being as power and presence. 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