part 3 of "The Storm" series
In this series of posts, we have looked at two different storms in the Bible that the disciples faced and how Jesus shows us to handle them: 1) He is in control – “I’ve got it” and 2) make your focus point Jesus. This week I wanted to share with you one of my storm stories and I wanted to start with this verse:
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid” (Psalm 23:4, NLT).
On the morning of May 11, 2012, I met my son for the first time. He was the cutest little 8 pound bundle. He had chubby little cheeks and was full of joy. Everything with mom and baby checked out ok and we left the hospital. But the clear and sunny skies would soon turn gray and dark and we found ourselves in a storm and needing a lot of courage and faith.
Two weeks later, we would find ourselves rushing our baby boy to the hospital after I found blood in his diaper. We spent the afternoon at a local hospital and then he was transferred across town to another hospital who could better serve him and us. It was found out that he had a small flap of skin in the urethra that would open and close sometimes fully blocking the urethra. This was causing the urine he was trying to pass to be backed up in his bladder and kidneys - causing major damage almost to the point of kidney failure. Upon the discovery of this they gave him a catheter which pushed the flap of skin open and he showed significant improvement over the next few hours and days. But this wasn’t the end.
After spending a few days at Memorial Hospital, it was decided that he needed to go to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis for further treatment. Once there, we found out that he would need surgery to remove the flap of skin. The surgery seemed to take forever. But finally it was over and was a success. He began to improve even more over the course of the next 10 days. He was finally released to go home and what a great relief it was to have him better, home and still with us.
He is now almost 8 years old and in 2nd grade. He is so full of energy and life. I can’t wait to tell him more of his story and how he is such a blessing.
The 3 weeks told about in the story above took a toll on life for myself and his mom. We had to have a lot courage, strength, faith, and love in order to make it through that storm. We couldn’t change what was happening, but what we could change our thoughts about the situation. I, myself, chose to believe from the start that my son was going to make it through and be OK. But that took courage.
Walking through the storms of life takes courage. It takes courage for us to go through the storms that we can see coming and even more courage to walk through the ones that we didn’t see coming.
God is in the storms with you. He’s there walking along right beside you. Keep Jesus at the center of your focus and choose to have courage and faith in storms and make it through to the other side with Jesus by your side.
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