O.K. it's been a while, and for those of you who read my blog, I'm sorry. But, the good news is I've had plenty of time to gather new experiences. Like the one for today. This will be a two parter with the conclusion tomorrow. Many of you may be able to relate to this one so feel free to email me with your particular story. ron@love89.org
Sweetpea, (my wife, Elizabeth), had gone on a training trip to Nashville. This is pretty common, so the week began just as any other week that she was away. Late morning I received a phone call from one of Sweetpea's training friends. She informed me that my wife had been having chest pains and numbness in her left arm and of course that alarmed me and I wanted to drive out there immediately, but she wouldn't let me just yet (that didn't stop me from researching flight info, which by the way doesn't exist...no flight leaves Knoxville and goes directly to Nashville). She told me later that she was fine, but she had been admitted to Baptist hospital in Nashville. When I further learned that she would be kept over night, I decided to drive out and be with her. I arrived at about 9:30 pm CST. She was doing very well and I stayed the night with her there in the hospital. The next morning they did a stress test and then we waited alllllllll day for the results. Apparently it takes a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaally long time to read the results from a stress test. I don't know for sure since I've never read one. But, it sounds like a pretty tough read. Ultimately they couldn't find anything wrong with her and ruled out her heart as a source for the problem and couldn't explain why it had happened at all. Weird... So, we waited some more and then they finally released her.
It's funny...because so many people including ourselves were praying for my wife. The prayer almost invariably was that the tests would show nothing wrong. No problems at all. Then, the first question we have after the tests come back showing no problems at all is well, what caused it? There must be something, because these things don't just happen. The tests are wrong, or you're looking in the wrong place we might say. ...or could it be that God just did exactly what we asked him to do? So many of our friends and family praying the same prayer and it doesn't automatically occur to us that maybe, just maybe God answered our prayers. Sometimes we just have to believe that God is faithful to his word. If we believe the prayer when we pray it then we shouldn't be surprised when God answers it.
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