Happy First Day of Spring!
From where I sit this morning, laptop on my lap, looking through the glass doors at a beautiful, even though a little overcast, day, I am thinking about my Scripture on Sunday. This Sunday is Palm / Passion Sunday; the Sunday before Easter. On Palm Sunday the people are crying out to God in praise. The Romans tell Jesus to make the people be quiet. Jesus replied that if people don't do it, then the rocks will cry out instead. What I am hearing and seeing is that God is the creator of all things, and that He created everything good. (Go back and read Genesis again). Due to the condition of our fallen world, everything doesn't always seem so good. But still, look at it, God's creation is still awesome!
Monday and Tuesday of this week we began cutting back on pain and nausea medications. Monday I felt tired and 'draggy'. Yesterday I went and got some fluids. Later yesterday evening I had some very intense pain. I am much, much better this morning. We are not sure if the pain is the result of my body adjusting to med change, or if I picked up a bug. But whatever it is/was, it is gone for now.
As I lay in my bed last night during the worst part of my episode, I was thinking that if God could hear rocks crying out, then He certainly can hear me. Surely I am more precious to Jesus than a rock. So it makes perfect sense to me that He heard my crying out last night.
God hears, God cares! As Cat Stevens once sang in a song:
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word.
Happy Spring, my friends.
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