Today we are off to Vanderbilt to see the orthopedic surgeon. I imagine that we will need more than our allotted portion of wisdom as we ponder the options that are presented today.
Tuesday of this week Nick received 2 units of whole blood. (Thank you blood donors!!) May I just tell you that the life is truly in the blood. He has had a couple of relatively super days since then. Tuesday his counts were so low that...well...it wasn't good. Then he got the blood, and almost immediately began to feel better. He certainly hasn't done any cartwheels, but he has played games and gotten around much more easily. The difference is palpable. Thank you, God!!
A friend of mine at church last night began talking to me about her study of Jeremiah. She mentioned a conversation in Jeremiah between God and the prophet where God asked the question: "Am I not the same when I'm near or far?" Sometimes it does feel as though God is far away, and sometimes we feel the overwhelming presence of His closeness. Is He not the same in each of these instances? The answer is, yes! Although it's not new information, I needed to hear that. The book of James admonishes us to not be double minded or such that we are like waves tossed to and fro. In order to walk through these "valley of the shadow of death" times in life, we have got to have it settled in our minds that God is with us and for us...even when He is feeling far away. The truth is that He is never far away. We can fully trust Him. It's our feelings that we can not always trust.
It is well.
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