Making Your Own Reality: A Survival Story
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2 Corinthians 1:4
Before she died of cancer, my previous wife, Marie-Louise, who earned her Ph.D in Clinical Psychology, in 1980, four years before me, and I would often discuss what it might be that caused me to evolve from snorting, growling and grabbing at people to what I am today, that no one who sees me or meets me can even imagine. “Why me,” I ask myself. Why am I so blessed?
In 2 Corinthians 1:4 of the Christian Bible and possibly in other holy books, I feel that I am being told that God comforted me “in my tribulation,” so I can help others who are suffering from their own tribulations. Of all the other reasons I have read or heard, this certainly makes the most sense. I am not singled out. God used many people to help me overcome my injuries, especially, my parents and my siblings, Squeak, David, Judi and Tim, and I feel an obligation to help others as a reason for my existence. A team around me was created to comfort and help people in need.
It is that simple, and nothing has been more important to me, since the day I realized I could have no better reason for being alive. In my heart I know that God has blessed me more than I have the words to describe and continues to bless me every day of my life. I am a firm Believer that God has a plan for my life and all our lives. I do not pretend to know what God is or where God is, but I feel very comfortable with the idea that every behavior has a consequence that is a response to a behavior and which, in turn, is a consequence of that response which, in turn________ and so on.
At the same time, I believe God uses other people to guide us and help us be as perfect as we are willing to attempt to be. In the Bible, the disciple Matthew instructs us, “Be ye perfect as God is perfect” which I interpret to mean I am to keep trying to be the best I can be. This does not mean that I will ever be perfect but that God is willing to be with me in all my efforts to better myself. No, I will never be perfect, but in my heart, I KNOW that God will help me find whomever or whatever I will need to be as perfect as I can ever be, a better or more capable person than I am right now. When my efforts fall short of what they need to be, in my heart, I am equally convinced that God will continue to help me until I reach the mark.
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Making Your Own Reality is a collection of the experiences that guided James Meade, Jr. from being an animal-like survivor of a massive brain injury to being a Ph.D in Psychology and an internationally-known speaker who has shared with audiences around the United States and the world. Dr. Meade has worked with brain-injured individuals and their families around the world and has seen people create miracles that even other professionals thought could never happen. Dr. Meade does not cure people but has watched people make their own miracles. Much of what he writes describes what he has experienced and seen changed his own life and the lives of others.
Al Sibert, Ph.D, the author of The Survivor Personality, who wrote that Dr. James P. Meade, Jr., “is a man who KNOWS what this is all about.”
About the Author
Jim Meade, Jr. ceased to exist on May 8, 1967 and James Meade, Jr. was born 10 weeks later. The helicopter crashed and destroyed the memory of the first 19 years of his life. The doctors expected him to die but he lived to help millions of people around the United States and the world.