2022, for my sweet hubs and me, will go down as a very painful year, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and all the other “…ally’s.” However, spiritually, God remains providentially loving and sovereignly faithful – as if He could abandon His holy, eternal nature on our peon-ish travails. We humans always overestimate our affect on God while seriously underestimating His affect on everything, let alone us.
With the hubs’ double back surgery and subsequent rehab, he has naturally questioned if these surgeries were the right decision. Thankfully his doctor waited until after the surgeries to tell him it would be a year before he would feel any where close to anything resembling normal. He has suffered – A LOT – and it has been very hard to watch, but MUCH harder for him to live… endure. The excruciatingly awful part is behind us so now we go through the daily grind of medium awful issues, and one day we will progress to the minor awful into the mundane. We will get there!
To sit back and allow God to teach through life is completely against our pagan, unholy nature we inherited from Adam and Eve’s first, ever consequential sin – yet is plainly commanded: “Be still, and know that I am God”. We always hear that verse quoted from Psalm 46:10, yet that is incomplete. For me, there’s always a WHY. The why is the rest of the verse: “I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” As we are still, listening, and obeying God WILL be exalted – lifted up – glorified not only among the people with whom we know, but also across the country and the world. We tell family and friends how God has worked – they tell family and friends… and God gets lifted up every time his story is told.
I will have surgery on my bum thumb tomorrow. They’ll remove a joint, pull a tendon from my wrist, put it through a bone in my thumb, and then create a cushion joint where the removed bone was. I’ll be in a cast for 6-8 weeks. Anyone who knows me knows I am not the best patient in the world. After my extensive lumpectomy in 2010, removing cancer, I “accidentally” snipped my drain tube WAY too early because it was bugging me. Perhaps I’ll be better this time. I’m praying all is well by spring planting time. I also have signed up for the master gardener class next year. Lots to do in the garden and the kitchen!
Watching our country tear itself apart at the seams continies to be painful. Yes, it IS God who appoints all kings and rulers – it is utterly sickening knowing joe and his sick cronies is what God deemed us worthy of having as leaders. If I thought anything other than that fact, the 2022 mid-term election results brought that home even further. To watch New York choose a leader who offers nothing but what they are getting now is complete insanity. No, I don’t live in New York but their choice is endemic of what’s happening all across America. I can’t help but be heartbroken for the future of my child and grandchild’s country especially after ole joe said he will change nothing after Republicans gained control over the house. I actually spoke that word before he did when he was asked by a reporter after the mid-terms.
There have been some bright bursts of light recently. Hubs and I watched the lighting of the Christmas tree on Foxnews last night and heard at least 3 times – VIVIDLY – heard that Christmas was about Christ coming down to earth, being born to save us from our sins. We both said Amen! It was refreshing to hear. It was BEAUTIFUL! “How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Isaiah 52:7
No matter why, who, what is happening God will forever be on His throne. He is ALWAYS in control. His sovereign will IS! His love cushions everything we go through with the faith only He can give through His grace and mercy. I can live with that.
Our God Reigns!
Freedom Matters 