Here it is, a nice, brisk, sunny November morning. It’s the kind of day one longs to visit an orchard and get a bushel of apples to set on the back porch for the children to snack on when they came home from school. We used to do that in Adrian, and that ‘apple a day' helped keep the doctor at bay.
What a week this has been. Early Monday it started with my regular six month visit to the doctor. He checked all the labs he had received, noted “your cholesterol is good, and blood pressure is excellent”. I think you might need some iron since you appear a little anemic! Otherwise, just keep on doing what you are doing. Things are fine. I’ll see you again in six months.
Then off to see the heart doctor. She too was pleased with everything, and said also, “just keep on doing what you are doing, and I’ll see you in six months."
Then the historic election.
Then the eye specialist. He cut down the drops per day because I was doing so well.
I felt like rejoicing with the prophet when he said, “Our God was with us”. Because, well, there is a little test I need to take Monday yet, but then the doctor is always a bit on the “better safe than sorry” frame of mind.
A friend reminded me of the passage in Daniel where a heathen king, the same king that had constructed a statue of himself and commanded that people worship it or be thrown into the blazing furnace – that king said of God, 35 “Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to him. He does whatever he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can oppose him or ask him, “What are you doing?” Daniel 4,35.
It is fitting to close with that reminder that we are truly in His hands and under His daily care and blessing.
GPD 11/7/08
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