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My big sister was part of raising funds for Baylor’s School of nursing for these six “robots”.  I called them dummies, but was corrected very quickly, by everyone! Dean Lot spoke, along with the interim President of Baylor David Garland.  While there, I got to see the man who signed my diploma from Southwestern, Dr. Russell Dilday!  BUT, the highlight was getting to see Mrs. McCall, the widow of the late Abner McCall, who signed my diploma from Baylor back in 1980!!!!

My first memory of life was with my big sister.  I remember being in a small wooden parsonage, up on a bed, laying on my stomach, looking at my sister and us making faces at each other!  We still do that sometimes.  These “robots” cost a few hundred thousand apiece.  They simulate everything a human body does so that a student learns first to work on them before working on a human being.  They scream, cry, laugh, breath.  All of it. One even has a baby! 

I wanted to kick them and make them scream, or give them a shot, but I was told I couldn’t.  I could have had so, so, so much fun in that room.  If only my little brother Mark had been with me.  Wow! the fun we could have had. Instead I had to act dignified.  Oh well. 

It was suggested we should have those created for a church, snoring dummies, preaching dummies, happy dummies, sad dummies, complaining dummies, all kinds of dummies.  Life, however, is real and we don’t always get the luxury of “practicing”.  Instead, we have to be ready to act in the moment.  I just can’t imagine anyone in this life, not living with the presence of the Holy Spirit guiding them every moment.  Think about it, he lives within these earthen vessels, makes our bodies his temple, and guides us in all we do so that we can always bring glory to God.  Just like you did, Sandy, in raising the money for those “robots.”