The Best Medicine

Our two sons gave us the best medicine last week. The younger son lives in France with his beautiful little family. Last weekend, our daughter-in-law's brother was married, so her family all converged on Chicago for the wedding. We were also invited, and thanks to the older son who travels a lot with his work, we were able to be there too. Although it was just a long weekend, spending those few days with our kids and the two grandchildren was such a blessing. Our last time together was during Christmas break.  We laughed so hard and smiled so much that our jaws hurt! And that's a good thing!


Today T worked on getting the PET scan results to our Houston doctor. Our medical team here had faxed them but they didn't arrive at the Houston clinic. It is possible that the fax number they were given was actually for the doctor's university office but T decided to fax them again just to be sure. After chatting with the nurse today (Dr. E is on vacation) we learned that the surgery will probably be later in September than what we initially thought. It's difficult to get all the proper people lined up and ready to demonstrate their gifts at the same time. So we're waiting - because that's the next step - surgery. We are really quite hopeful that this is a tiny, totally isolated batch of cells, so small that maybe the biopsy got all of them. Oh wouldn't that be nice! But even if not...


Oswald Chambers hit it on the head again in last Friday's reading: "When we are afraid, the least we can do is pray to God. But our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His name have an underlying confidence in Him. God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the ones who are reliable.  If we have been learning to worship God and to place our trust in Him, the crisis will reveal that we can go to the point of breaking, yet without breaking our confidence in Him." 
That's who we want to be, totally confident in God's sovereign ability to deal with this moment in our lives. We want the Lord, not this trial, to define us throughout our lives, but especially now. So we rest... in Him.