Good out of "even this"
“Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
-Anne of Green Gables
Eventually I will start a blog post with a quote from someone other than Anne, but today is not that day. As a child I too would say morbid phrases in hopes of comforting myself, however, as I got older I realized that saying those depressing phrases never took the pain away. Today is as you may have guessed is a sad/happy day.
Long story short, my brother has had a very serious heart disease for several years now, and it was today that we were given the news that while his heart has not gotten any worse, it has not gotten any better either. Resulting in the decision to have a heart cath. done next Tuesday, and to plan on staying in the hospital. Translated- Staying in the hospital until he would receive a heart transplant.
For those who are not familiar with a heart transplant, and why the news is so disappointing, heart transplants as one could guess are very difficult, but it's not just the surgery, the first year after a transplant is incredibly hard. Not to mention, the fact that heart transplant receivers do not have a very strong statistic when it comes to how many years they will have with the new heart.
After initial shock, sadness, and feeling like God had forsaken us, I remembered something a dear friend of mine in England texted:
"I've found in the most challenging situations, if I ask the Lord to bring good out of "even this", He always answers. I mean situations where I can't begin to imagine how He could bring any good at all- He has."
This situation is hard and is painful, but when I pray for a miraculous healing, I also remind myself to pray that God will bring "good out of even this" even if it does not result how I think it should result.
-Anne of Green Gables
Eventually I will start a blog post with a quote from someone other than Anne, but today is not that day. As a child I too would say morbid phrases in hopes of comforting myself, however, as I got older I realized that saying those depressing phrases never took the pain away. Today is as you may have guessed is a sad/happy day.
Long story short, my brother has had a very serious heart disease for several years now, and it was today that we were given the news that while his heart has not gotten any worse, it has not gotten any better either. Resulting in the decision to have a heart cath. done next Tuesday, and to plan on staying in the hospital. Translated- Staying in the hospital until he would receive a heart transplant.
For those who are not familiar with a heart transplant, and why the news is so disappointing, heart transplants as one could guess are very difficult, but it's not just the surgery, the first year after a transplant is incredibly hard. Not to mention, the fact that heart transplant receivers do not have a very strong statistic when it comes to how many years they will have with the new heart.
After initial shock, sadness, and feeling like God had forsaken us, I remembered something a dear friend of mine in England texted:
"I've found in the most challenging situations, if I ask the Lord to bring good out of "even this", He always answers. I mean situations where I can't begin to imagine how He could bring any good at all- He has."
This situation is hard and is painful, but when I pray for a miraculous healing, I also remind myself to pray that God will bring "good out of even this" even if it does not result how I think it should result.
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