Ps 86:4
(NIV) Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
NOTE: Why does it
seem Lord that you do not answer Sharon's and my prayers? I must assume, based
on my puny knowledge, you do answer our prayers, but are answering them in ways
we would not like. Again, I must assume that you love us and know our needs best,
therefore your lack of answers to us and the multiplication of our troubles is
for our good. Lord, I will continue to petition you and ask for joy again. I
pray that my family could experience joy and not burdens. How much longer must
we undergo these afflictions? When will you intervene with your might power? I
will trust you, for to you I lift up my soul.
((TODAY, 18 July
2012: I remember an incident which actually happened six times the first year
-- Luke would get pneumonia from a tracheal fistula that allowed liquids from
his food pipe to leak into his air pipe. When he was getting a pneumonia, he
would aspirate a lot, that is, a juicy cough which was clearing fluid from his
air pipe and lungs. At night, even as he tried to sleep, this little 5 month
baby would wake up and cough every minute or two. It was so hard to sit there
with him. It seemed like agony late at night. I remember asking God to give him
relief so that he could sleep, but it would never happen. And then the
temperature would rise and we would head to the emergency room again, often
times for an extended stay in the pediatric intensive care unit. I think that
pain is more difficult to take when it is occurring to your children than when
it comes upon you. I know we did learn a lot through that and we could feel the
pain of others with children that suffer, but it is a lesson I wished I have
never learned.))
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