Faith

As a pastor & chaplain, I often am in the position to tout about "keepin' the faith" and trusting in God's plan. I gotta tell ya, that's so much easier when it has nothing to do w/ your own personal life.

My youngest, Maggie, had some kidney problems when she was born; but after what appeared to be a successful surgery, everything was fine. Yesterday, the kids & I drove down to Children's Hospital for a check up & it looks like the kidney's having problems again. The right one looks overly large & full and the left one is bigger than normal size and empty. What that means is the left kidney is compensating for the right one and she'll need surgery again. Hopefully, she'll only need a stint to be put in and things will go back to normal. Worse case scenario - she'll lose the kidney.

Now before I worked in a hospital and really began to learn about how important kidneys were, I would have been like, "ok; she'll be fine w/ one kidney." But now I know that can lead to so many other things; very complicated things.

I guess it's time to stare in the mirror and start preaching to myself. Fortunately, it really doesn't matter what I do... God IS faithful and sovereign IN ALL THINGS. Now if only I would listen to myself.