Hi my name is Joshua Mompean,
I am twenty five years old and have I decided what I want to do next year? Do I want to be in construction or take up snow boarding or climb half dome in Yosemite? How about learning how to surf one of my only fears are sharks. Sharks have kept me out of the ocean for year’s love the beach won’t go in the water more than calf deep.
My wife and I recently moved near Stanford hospital for evaluation and assessment of my double lung transplant hopefully when I’m ready we can afford transplantation. Everyone that lives needs to surf. I would love to learn. At my current lung function I find it difficult to even walk sometimes, and water… I used to spend all day in the pool at the house were I grew up; we would get the kind of wrinkle in our fingers and toes that does not go away until September! Now no more than waist deep or the pressure will be so intense it takes my breath away in a matter of seconds and I’m coughing like crazy. Cystic Fibrosis (C.F.) has taken its toll on my body, once able to work two jobs working seven days a sometimes sixteen hrs a day. Now on a good day I can take out the trash and wash the dishes. On a bad day I find it almost unbearably difficult to get out of bed. Just a few years ago my mind was as sharp as a cheddar cheese and now it’s about as appetizing as a raw potato…with skin.
My saving grace is through Christ Jesus…. many people are shocked when they find out that I love Jesus with all of my trials and my victories with C.F. I share Christ- He is the yoke with me and much of the time he carries me. This is also his fight because he is in me and I come from him. My faith comforts me like a warm blanket in the dead of winter or a kind heart in a sea of indifferent faces. If there is anything I hope to accomplish after surgery it is to praise God and seek him first after that No mountain or ocean or indifferent face can keep me down.
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Josh had me take this off his USB and post it to you. He is currently at Stanford. Please pray for him, donate, help, visit and love him. Thank you.
