I want to share something I learned from long ago hoping it will help someone now. My mother was ill much of the time in my childhood. I practically grew up in hospitals. God taught me to look beyond the "tubes and wires" and start saying thank you, Lord for every device, procedure, medication and medical expert. Many years ago many died, because there were no such medical helps available. Now, many lives are saved thanks to all those tubes, wires and medical knowledge the Lord has given through discoveries in the field of medicine.

I know how it looks to you, for I have felt that in the past. Tubes and wires belong on machines and invented things, not on a living, breathing human being. One sometimes wishes he could just take all that away, but the tubes and wires carry life in them and are essential to sustain life many times. God does many miracles in a twinkling of an eye, but many He does through the professions and inventions He has allowed scientists to discover. We must always thank Him for life, whether it is in the body itself, or being sustained by tubes, wires and machines till that one can survive once more on their own.

So, when you see your loved one, begin thanking God for all the many people who have worked countless hours before finding breakthroughs by the inventions of many of the machines and discoveries of medicines. Thank Him that life is being sustained through one of His "slower miracles". ... It is quite a battle with an inventor or scientist so anxious to get a new drug or machine to those in need and with the FDA's standards to protect people from quackery having to be met. It is a hard task to get even the simplest of things approved for use on human beings. In addition to the untold hours in experimenting and tweaking of a product, there are the hours spent knowing they have something that can save lives and waiting for a stamp of approval to make it legal and available The stresses and tensions are great

If you will consider all of these things, it will help you as it has helped me to actually be joyful to see all the things they can do for my loved one that I cannot do. Hospitals are cold and uninviting places to many people, but I am here to proclaim that they are warm, inviting places to those who need them to stay alive. This is not to say that they are perfect, nor that everyone who works there is perfect, but more times than not, they are comforting in the help they give to folks who are in desperate need.

When you are struggling with all you see happening to your loved one and when you are praying and doing all you can, that is when stress and worry can try to take over. It is hard to do, but try to put all of it in the Lord's hands. Ask Him to return to you all that you can handle with guidance on how to do things. Remember two things: If the Lord intends for you to be the one to do something, He will provide a way for you to do it. And, when you have done all you can do and want to do more, then you have done all you can do. May the Lord, our Mighty God give you peace and sustain you in your struggles.

© Marjorie 2008 November 8, 2008

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