Mother’s day is coming up. This year I actually have my head
above water. My brother is alive and
learning how to go to the drive in with all his equipment and baggage. It lifts my shoulders up so much, even though
his journey is still so uncertain.
But I guess that’s true for all of us. I don’t know what’s
going to come in the future. Ughh that
sucks sometimes doesn’t it? It’s
different for people who have a physical battle they meet face to face ever
morning. Their worries for the future
are much different than someone who is “healthy.”
We take health for granted. It’s interesting to think about
with all the buzz in the media about us having an obese epidemic. We do not think for a minute what we are
putting into our mouths, appearance is way more important usually with food isn’t?
Convenience is so much easier and we are
great at finding thousands of excuses of why we can’t cook dinner.
The same is true for physical beauty. The Anderson show did
a test of a beautiful woman with form fitting clothes on having a flat tire.
She didn’t have to wait more than a minute for a man to help her. And more men
kept offering to help. A girl who has shorter hair and no makeup and loose
clothes.. 10 minutes before a man helped her…
The psychologists say it’s how are brains are programed we
enjoy things that are beautiful.. So I guess we say we can’t help that and if
you are not physically beautiful to someone.. you’re screwed?!…
Our world’s viewpoint sucks.
. Open your hearts, compassion is
sadly missing from our culture. Too bad
we couldn’t follow this more… “ Finally all of you should be of one mind, full
of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble
minds.” 1 Peter 3:8
But back to sickness, someone who has a life long physical
battle has constant worries. For example, my husband has type 1 diabetes. To most it doesn’t seem serious and most
people know about it now because of type 2 diabetes… which goes back to our
obesity in this country. But it is serious.
And to me I think it’s a silent killer.
Sure he could eat whatever he wants and go back for more and
more and hope his insulin works it out.
He could go to work all day and decide it’s too inconvenient to test his
blood sugar and if his blood sugar goes high or low, he doesn’t see immediate
damage to his body… but keep on with this type of pattern and at your next eye
exam you will hear the words of.. “the vessels in your eyes are becoming
damamged.” And keep on a few more years.. you will hear” I’m sorry, you’re
losing your sight.”
In one quick second your world is flipped. Your eye sight
could be gone. Your world would be transformed.
Your blame alone would make your world dark. Your regret of going back would pound you to
the ground… its not looking good.
The words losing your sight.. makes you think, Did I lose my
sight along the way? What are our eyes set on? What’s the focus of your day?
What’s heavy is Eric is living with diabetes and the daily struggle,
but our souls our intertwined so I live with it too. It’s not just his responsibility
but mine. I make dinner. I choose what I put into his body. I help control
diabetes. Sometimes I forget.. more like I don’t want to think
about how serious it is. Convienance is
a temptation.. but when I think about the life long consequences and ask God to
help knock it outta here… it’s no longer appealing.
A few weeks ago Eric told me how he is so worried about the
future. If he dies, what will happen?.
If he goes blind what would happen?
It made me think about how his worries are different. But
all my response was,
Don’t you trust God to take care of you?
It’s like all things. You can not just sit around and eat
whatever you want and only check your blood sugar and say Well God will take care
of me. …. We have to take care of our physical bodies as best as we can here. We can’t just spend whatever we want to buy
what we desire and say God will give me more money.
We can be thankful for how much we do know about diseases
today and what helps treat and prevent them.
We have to talk with God and trust him. He won’t let you just sit around
and not take care of yourself.
will use others to speak to you, and he will speak to you. But when we are
doing everything we can, trying our hardest, when we are putting forth all we
have with humble hearths that’s it.. the rest is in God’s hands. Sure to think about Eric losing his eyesight
is a shot through my heart and I think would I be able to take a breath? Then I
remember how much I trust God. I know he loves us so much he would be right
there with us.
I also know he doesn’t want us worrying about
the future so much that it consumes us.
Trust him. How do we trust God? We start with what he left for us, the
manual to our life.. you know it.
“You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.”
So true right? We spend all our time
worrying about the future and what if the next day we did lose our sight? We
would regret we didn’t look around at what we had a bit more closely.
God will listen to our needs. “Don’t worry about anything;
instead pray about everything; tell God your needs and don’t forget to thank
him for his answers.” Matthew 6:34
Here’s some others that help to put worry aside and enjoy
this moment right now that has been given to us. It’s not to say we can’t prepare for the
future, but we also need to trust him and that comes like any relationship. It takes
time, and communication. Talk to God. Get to know him. Expose yourself to him.
He’s waiting right now!!
Philippians 4:6
1 Peter 5:7
Joshua 1:9
Mark 4:18-19
John 14:27
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