Hi everyone, its time for an update. We head off tomorrow morning for the Cary office of Dr. Mruthyunjaya. This is the first appointment in two months. Things seem steady on this end, but the appointment will tell the status of the tumor, retina and prospects of another surgery in 2012. I am reminded that one of the doctors told us back in February that we were getting ready to start out on a long road. It has been that, but with less travel in recent months.
I continue my reading of Thomas Watson’s book All Things for Good. Here is a highlight that helped me.
“If all things work for good, therefore we must learn that there is a providence (the word means “to see before”). Things do not work of themselves, but God sets them working for good. God is the great Disposer of all events and issues. He sets everything working. ‘His kingdom rules over all’ (Psalm 103:19). It is meant His providential kingdom. Things in the world are not governed by second causes (i.e. governments, in-laws, outlaws, bosses, teachers or even Supreme Court justices), by the counsels of men, by the stars or planets, but by divine providence…There are three things in providence: God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events. Whatever things do work in the world, God sets them a working. We read in the first chapter of Ezekiel of wheels, and eyes in the wheels, and the moving of the wheels. The wheels are the whole universe, the eyes in the wheels are God’s providence, the moving of the wheels is the hand of Providence, turning all things here below. That which is by some called chance (or luck) is nothing else but the result of providence.”
It’s comforting for me to know that my current state or what may come after it are all a part of God’s providence. A Big God governs our big universe and watches over small hearts like mine.
