Ps
86:10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.
NOTE: God, I've seen
your marvelous deeds over and over again, yet I still don't trust you enough to
do the impossible. Thank you for the $2000 gift. That gift relieves a lot of
anxieties which we shouldn't have anyway. The next question is how should we
use this extra money? Should we buy a van with AC power to be able to transport
Luke further distances, and incidentally relieve another major anxiety? Please
lead us clearly Lord. It's my desire to get a van but I want to do your will.
((TODAY, 19 July
2012: The gift was a collection of money from people we had known in Navigator
ministries over the years. They were very generous. Ultimately we used the gift
to pay off our portion of the medical equipment bill that CHAMPUS would not cover.
I don't believe we ever got a van until we moved to Washington DC three years
later, but my memory is not clear. I do know we also bought a generator so that
we could continue to run Luke's medical equipment in case of storms or power
outages. But more than anything, the
gift was one of many reminders that we really weren't forgotten by God. In
fact, the only true forgetting was our tendency to forget what God had done in
the past when a new crisis would emerge. That is very common when emotions are
strong such as in a time of severe suffering. And, reminding someone of God's
previous provision isn't beneficial during the early days of the pain. Once the
pain has subsided, logical arguments bear more weight, but they are actually
very insensitive during the moment of pain.))
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