God is in this story
I went out Sunday morning for a short time. “God is inthis story” by Big Daddy Weave and Katy Nicole played on the car radio. It hitme in such a powerful way and has continued to be something of a mantra that I whisperunder my breath.
At that point Jerry had been strugglingwith some sort of infection for almost a week which had involved an urgent carevisit and many conversations with health care providers. The circumstancesescalated later Sunday making an emergency room trip necessary. And from there,test results and symptoms necessitated hospital admittance. That is where westill are, and I write this post fromhis hospital room.
Hopefully test results will come in soongiving us more insight into how to better treat this infection and turn thisthing around.
I’m still whispering. God isin this story. I don’t understand all the how’s of that, and I stopped asking whymany years ago when we encounter things like this. I’ve quoted C.S. Lewis often,“We, in our agony, struggle to pull God down to wherewe are and force Him to explain that which cannot be explained. Can a mortalask questions which God finds unanswerable? . . . All nonsense questions areunanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round?Probably half the questions we ask―half our theological and metaphysicalproblems―are like that.”
Why is adead-end street.
But what I do know about our situation isthat God planted us high in this hospital with a bank of windows that overlook aportion of our city and a wide vista of sky. It’s like we are floating in theair. He has given us caring health care providers that seem at the top of theirprofession. He has blessed us with friends and family that send messages ofsupport and love and pray continually.
Oh, yes. God is in this story.
And God is in your story, too.
No matter how hard, or how long, or how devastatingit seems to be.
When interviewed about this song, Big DaddyWeave talked about the recent loss of his brother. He hoped this would be asong of hope for others and remind that God is with us in “all the seasons ofour lives.”
Katy Nicole has shared her story ofserious health challenges, and the resulting depression and anxiety. She said, “I’veseen how God has brought glory to His name and how He’s brought good from someof these really, really bad things.”
Paul seemed to echo these thoughts in hisletters to the Corinthians and the Romans. Here from the Message: “My grace isenough. It’s all you need” (2 Corinthians 12:9 ). “That’s why we can be so surethat every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good”(Romans 8:28).
So here we are, in the middle of a processfor which there are not many answers at the present time. But since God is inthis story, we are trusting that He is at work in ways we cannot comprehend. Andthat makes all the difference.
