[Sly Fox]

The Rev. Charles Hughes, 53, is one who feels his clock doesn't need fixing. "I'm a very happy guy. I love life," says Hughes, a campus pastor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., who also serves a small Baptist church.

Hughes feels positive about the past because he unexpectedly recovered after a van accident 30 years ago left him in a coma for 10 weeks.

He works hard, but he is careful to set aside plenty of time with his three daughters and four grandkids. He plans so he can keep commitments, "but we said no to more things when the girls were growing up."

Sports is a passion, so he treats himself by attending college sporting events. He believes in an afterlife and says: "The Lord has blessed me with time here, so I'm going to use it carefully."

Marrow, the recovering future-fixated eye doctor, says he's relishing his own midlife shift in time perspective: "I'm glad I figured out that life is not a sprint. It's a marathon."

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[Hold My Own]

Many say he was one of the best pastors in the country before his accident. He's a lucky man.

[olldflame]

Many say he was one of the best pastors in the country before his accident. He's a lucky man.

Not to be nit-picky, but prior to his accident Charles was not a pastor, but an evangelist. He was as gifted a preacher as I have heard though. I've been to his little church on Campbell Ave., and he can still preach, although he shows the effects of his brain injuries. I doubt if more prayer has ever gone up for any human being than for him following that accident.