POST NON-SURGERY

The afternoon of the day of my brother’s non-surgery, we bought tickets to return to Florida the next day.  By evening, all of his sons, his wife, and Jim and I were sitting in a restaurant having a dinner we never expected to be having and I was rejoicing over the great thing the Lord had done, and then we got the phone call.  Our daughter Amy, instead of leaving the hospital, would now have to have a chest tube inserted to remove fluid in her lung.  So, we canceled our plans to go home and booked a flight to Arizona.  I was so grateful that I could comfortably leave my brother and be there for my daughter.

I was on SUCH a spiritual high on that travel day, so in awe of what the Lord had done, that I did a few things not totally comfortable for me.  While waiting for my husband, who had made a trip to the rest room, I sat alone at a table when a homeless man came up to me asking for food.  When Jim came back I went to find him and bought him a meal.  Before we parted, I told him about Jesus, and prayed with him.

Then a lovely African American woman named India sat beside us.  She was returning to Florida to visit her son who was in the hospital.  She was not a religious woman, but she allowed me to hold her hand and pray with her for her son.

We spent the rest of this week with Amy in the hospital while the doctors treated her pneumonia and addressed the stubborn fluid in her lung.  Surgery was discussed but never happened, thank the Lord.

While there, I had a wonderful opportunity to share what Jesus had done in my brother’s body with another couple and they shared with me their own story of miraculous healing.

Since then, I’m feeling pretty tired, emotionally and physically.  I’m anxious to get back home to contemplate and wrap my mind around what the Lord has been up to these last two weeks.  I’ve often thought this week that I wished I could SEE the supernatural events God is doing around us and in lives.  I may have to wait for heaven to finally see it, but I can believe now, by faith, that it’s awesome!