-----God's Faithful Hand Is Always With Us~
--"The God of all grace...will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you."
---[1 Peter 5:10] -- 
--"I feel like I'm pushing the envelope," my husband, Terry, told me, dreading a potential third spinal fusion surgery--this time a double fusion. each surgery had helped, but more kept going wrong. Now stairs were increasingly difficult and he was in constant pain.
During this decision-making time we flew to Alaska to visit grandkids. To ease his fear I suggested he see the same surgeon on the Kenai Peninsula who had looked at the scans for his first surgery. Our daughter--a registered nurse in the community--had requested those films for a second opinion.
We had never met the Alaska physician--but were incredibly grateful to him. When he had looked at Terry's original spine scans, he had urged consultation for a growth he noted on a kidney. Terry had a cancerous kidney removed before it caused other damage.
The surgeon not only fit Terry into his schedule, but also ordered an MRI and squeezed us in for a follow-up appointment. He concurred with the planned surgery--it was tricky, he said, but it could be done.
When he learned the surgery would be in Spokane, Washington, he mentioned he had a good friend living there, whom he'd taught in medical school in Chicago, who had just been up visiting. Later in the visit I happened to drop the name of Terry's Spokane surgeon. The physician exclaimed, "That's my friend!"
Terry's anxiety toward his next surgery left him. God's steadying hand was clearly visible in this unlikely bridge. ~~
-"Thank You, Lord Jesus, You truly are the skilled Physician.~~ amen"
-"Faithful God" // (lyric video // I Am They// <https://youtu.be/C9MTZ1TOlbk>~~~~~~~~~~
