Healing

When the children were babies, I’d wake at 3:00 am-ish, and instead of tossing and turning, I got up and wrote. I wrote about my feelings, thoughts, and reflections on being a parent. I considered it my special time with God. Oftentimes, I felt as if I were just a conduit and writing down what was downloaded.

This morning was a bit like that time, only this morning I awoke at 3:47 a.m., tossed and turned until four-something-a.m., and sent a text to my daughter in a group text, careful not to wake the pups. I did not immediately start writing as when they were babies, but who knows, maybe this sacred time is back.

Yesterday, I received a text asking for prayers for my ten-week-old granddaughter who was in an Irish hospital with some sort of infection. I forwarded the text to my extended family for added prayer strength and waited.

I looked at more potential places to live in Denver, was cursed at whilst on my way to a job interview, had the interview, and when I felt I had waited long enough sent a text asking how things were going. I hadn’t realized that she had been unresponsive and that she had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. How terrifying. She was put through many tests, including a spinal tap to test for meningitis. As a parent, you feel helpless. As a grandparent, across the pond and time zones, all you can do is pray.

“Our God is an awesome God” is how the song goes, and it’s true. Our God can and will take care of everything if we only ask. The one thing we must remember is that we must accept, trust, and surrender to His way of taking care of everything, and sometimes, that can be difficult.

She was given antibiotics and as of this morning, is responding to them and getting back to her smiley self. God is good.

Yesterday, I also drove by a medical center and noticed the serpent wound around a staff that is the medical logo. The logo comes from the time of Moses in the desert when the Jewish people turned away from God, so the Lord sent poisonous serpents that began biting the people and they died. When the people saw the consequences of their actions, they asked Moses to pray to God for them and he did. God told Moses to make a bronze serpent and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp. Anyone who looked upon it was healed.

As we approach Palm Sunday, and Good Friday, we can’t help but see the similaritiy of Jesus on the cross, the ultimate healer, to the serpent on the pole, and the medical logo.

Thank you, Lord for this day, for your healing love extended to all who look upon you.