Some days my world is incredibly small – population me. Yesterday started out as one of those days.
Every few weeks the In-Center nursing staff rotate their chair assignments so
that they are familiar with all the dialysis patients – Why is this significant? Well, to some it wouldn’t matter, but it
takes time to break in a nurse that has never stuck my fistula – those first
few times, in my limited experience – are painful. I was already uptight after last week’s
bleeding episode. My world shrinks every
so much when I place my focus on myself – I become really short-sided.
Yesterday’s world news reported the use of chemical weapons
in the Middle East & a successful lung transplant for a young girl – but
the Headlines in my life included – a painful needle stick, followed by a blood
pressure that bottomed-out and my site bleeding. I’m pretty sure you won’t find any of those
latter topics on FOX News, but it really consumed my thoughts yesterday
morning.
I left dialysis & stopped at the grocery store – While I
was waiting on an order to be filled a lady behind the counter indicated
towards my fistula ( I thought this was going to be my opportunity to use one
of my new comebacks – ‘ oh, this? Snake bite. Big Snake.’) But then she asked if she had seen me at
dialysis. She told me her sister was a
dialysis patient & that she had seen me when she took her sister. She began to tell me of her sister – on dialysis
now after many years of being diabetic & being a cancer survivor. Her next comment was, ‘ It takes a lot of
faith’.
Christ is just as sovereign & gracious & in-control
on my bad days. He isn’t surprised or
set off-balance when I lose my focus & become short-sided. And how awesome He is to remind me in such
unexpected ways – that woman was God’s reminder of His faithfulness – My world
opened up yesterday, when I shifted my focus back to the ONE it deserves to be
set upon – I found God’s blessings for me at the meat market!
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