Merry Christmas banners

I got some pretty silver pointsettias

yesterday from a swap and thought

of a great card to make with one.

I wish I'd have put it up higher but

I was paying attention to the glue that

was drying quickly and not to the placement

of the flower and banners.  Oh well.  It still

looks nice and there's glitter everywhere,

now, including, probably, me.

 

How nice will that be for my doctor

to see, huh?  I see my kidney doctor

today and I am hoping for good news

again.  Last year he said he thought

my kidneys were healing themselves-

something that NEVER happens- and

he was as surprised as I was, maybe

moreso since he knows more about

it than me.  Does God perform miracles

in this day and age?  Of course.  Can He

heal people?  Most certainly.  Did I think

it would ever happen to me?  No.  So

I will be grateful for a status quo

report and am praying for more than

that.  Only God knows and whatever

the outcome I know He is in control

and I trust that He knows what

is best for me.  Some people

would say, how would kidney disease,

cancer, or other things be what is

best for us and if God can heal someone

why doesn't he?  Why does he let these

things  happen in the first place?

It's all easy to answer in my mind.

A fallen world.  Sin.  God didn't create

the world this way.  He didn't want us to

suffer and die.  But He also uses these

things.  In ways we may not even

know about.  I do know and

fully believe that if John  had not

gotten cancer he would never have

been saved.  I also know that the

gall bladder attack I had is how I found

out I had kidney disease.  If not for

that I would probably have been on

dialysis by now.  Or worse.  So God does

use things even though it pains Him

that we have to go through them

in the first place.  He suffers with us

in illness and grieves with us when a

loved one dies.  And He never, ever

leaves us.  Even, as I said yesterday, when

we don't necessarily feel Him there, He

is always by our side.  It's best not to

trust our feelings in those situations

because it's a perfect time for Satan to

come in and try to turn our mind to

thoughts that Jesus isn't really there,

doesn't love us, etc.  That's where FAITH

comes in.  John had a hard time with that.

He always said he was from Missouri, the

show me state.  That's why it's called Faith.

God does show us things sometimes, but

other times we just have to trust Him.

So that's what I'm doing today, I'm

trusting Him that no matter what the

outcome of the tests, He is with me.

Always.

 

Happy Wednesday!