Plans for Today and.........For All of Us

   Why is it all of a sudden that my thoughts are filled with medical issues? Not the ones in our family, but those in books that I read, passages in my daily reading and, this morning, even a blog that I stumbled on while looking up something on Google.

   Let me present a small bit of detail on the above.

   I have been engrossed in reading When Crickets Cry, by Charles Martin, and this book focuses on the world of doctors, heart transplants and the trauma and feelings of those involved. I finished it before I went to sleep last night, and now need to go back to a couple of parts of it and see if I can determine the answer to a question that the last page left for me. Regardless of the subject matter, it was a great read, and I would recommend it.

   As I got into the Bible readings this morning, the Gospel reading was in John 5, the narrative about Jesus healing the man at the Pool of Siloam. There was that medical tie again.

   I thought I would look up some info on that Pool and the meaning of the incident in Jesus' ministry, and in doing so I stumbled on a blog site that used the name of that spot, Pool of Siloam, as its title. I started off to try to find out the reason this person chose that title and ended up reading all the entries back to its beginning.

http://siloampool.blogspot.com/

   It is a recent blog, going back into 2012 and with the last posting in July of 2013. It is the journey of a couple being blessed with a little boy, born with spina bifida.

   This incredible couple are living through all of the uncertainty of the medical issues with a faith that inspires. I'm sure that all of their days are not "up days", but they have, as evidenced in the postings, come to grips with this aspect of life and seem to be resting in the fact that God is in it all. I read every post and was inspired with their dedication and their outlook.

   I don't think they used this verse in their writings, but it could have been their's as they went through all of this, and are they still are on this journey, Jeremiah 29:11:

" For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope."

   I had already been reminded of this same verse earlier in my meditations this morning and felt it was speaking to me also, even at this stage of life. Are there still plans that are for me?

   Knowing that I am still on this side of the heaven, I feel there are reasons for my life also. My prayer today is for the willingness to listen to God for what He wants me to do, and to realize that His plans for me are good.

   Plans for today, plans for tomorrow, plans to bless others, and plans to use me.

   These are what I look for.

   Let's Go