Today is Tuesday, November 17th, 2009; Karen's Korner #1697

Today is my husband Jim's 70th birthday! Quite a milestone in all of our lives, but especially big in his.....
 
In October before his 34th birthday, Jim was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Three years later on his 37th birthday, the symptoms of the disease were such that he was in Rochester taking tests to consider bypass surgery.
In 1976 the procedure and testing weren't as common or perfected as they are today.
 
Results of the tests showed that the disease was too progressed and bypass would not be an option for Jim. Of couse, the news was devastating. Jim believed he would live less than a year without it. I had just turned 30; our two girls were five and three years old.
 
Several days passed as we digested our news.
 
The next morning when I awoke, I continued reading chapters in Psalms. Chapter 49. Chapter 50; as I turned the page of my Bible, reading farther down to verse 15. There it was in italic print:  "I want you to trust me in your times of trouble, so I can rescue you , and you can give me glory."
 
Wow! We were going to be rescued!
 
With wings on my feet , I rushed to Jim's hospital room to tell him the news! We had no idea what the 'rescue' was going to look like. But we had God's promise.
 
It was a few days later that the cardiac chief of staff reviewed Jim's test results and asked for the opportunity to do an exploratory bypass for him. He wanted to conduct the surgery to see if he could get Jim the blood flow around his heart which he so desparately needed.
 
Would we allow it?
 
Would we!
 
Six weeks later the bypass was more successful than even the doctor's had anticipated.
 
And here we are 32 years later!
 
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I can recall over the years when we would have another 'time of trouble', I would wonder 'if God's magic' would once again appear and if I should read that part of the Bible? Would this be another time when those words would 'work'?
 
At the time, our daughter Merry was killed, I read,  "I want you to trust me in your times of trouble, so I can rescue you , and you can give me glory."
 
It was then that I knew that those words are true all of the time!
 
God reached down; reached out and touched me/us, let me know that I/we were loved and cared for in ways that I could only imagine. And I knew, too, that Merry too had been rescued.
 
God's words aren't true part of the time; they are true all of the time.
 
Our job is to believe it..........before we see it!
 
And to trust in His rescue options as He continues to care for each of us now and far, far into the future.....

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