At church yesterday there were two amazing baptisms! Our pastor's 13 year old son was one of them. He is a great kid and has had a really, really tough year. He spent most of this school year in and out of Children's Hospital with a mystery auto immune disease attacking his spinal cord. (He was featured on our local news station recently--Watch here) He is brave and has a great sense of humor, and I was totally convicted by his testimony yesterday.
He talked about how if the world ended today or tomorrow, would we be ready to spend eternity with Jesus? He publicly stood in front of our church family and said that he accepts Jesus as his Savior and repents of his sins and then was baptized. He is now ready.
Am I ready? Are we all? Matthew 24:44 says "Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
This world it tough. It can be a dark, dark place. Some days I desperately want Jesus to come back, so I can just spend eternity with Him and with Norah. In the grand scheme of things, my life is okay. But really everything that I go through from here on out will be directly related to our loss of Norah.
My body is still not healed. Six months later I am still dealing with the residual effects of delivering a baby too soon. Every pain in my abdomen, every drop of blood reminds me that she is not here with us. Dr. C is on top of it, and I will be having another procedure this Friday to hopefully ease some of this discomfort. Please pray for peace for myself and for Greg. I am incredibly anxious to be put under anesthesia again, but I know I have to do this in order to heal.
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