What Really Matters
Jul 22nd, 2005 by Hugh
What a lesson I got today - I feel like I’ve been sucker-punched with a fist full o’Real Life™.
It started with good news. Lindsay got a great report from her orthopedist today - her cast can come off in three weeks. He left me slack-jawed as he explained how the broken ends of the bones “just know” how to find each other to heal the fracture and lay down new bone. Truly we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Then I went back to work and got some e-mails, excerpted here:
E-mail #1: For those of you that are not aware, (name deleted)
I have experienced that same feeling. There was a time a few years ago when one of my best friends was going through a horrible condition with his back that left him immobilized facedown on a bed for months, a friend of friend’s baby did not have the necessary mylin coating on her nerves, and another friend of mine with CF was on his death bed. It all seemed very hopeless and I felt the same way. I couldn’t see God’s hand in the circumstances at all.
Here today’s update on all that. The baby died as expected and the family mourned but was thankful for the time they had with their little girl. My best friend recovered to health eventually and is back at college now. My other friend with CF received a lung transplant on Christmas Day no less and received local media coverage in which he blessed God with his full recognition of God’s hand and mercy in all the circumstances of his ordeal with CF.
All this to say. God has full knowledge. We do not. May that encourage to be faithful and obedient in the things we do know from Him!
This is what I was trying to communicate in one of Dan’s blogs about talking about work. There is so much more to discuss besides TPA reports etc.
It is also a good check to see if you are becoming brainwashed by the career path. What is getting put on the back burner because one’s career is more important? Are you so concerned about the task at hand that you forget about the people involved? Are you so personally involved with a project that you if it fails you feel like you are a failure? That’s not doing things unto the Lord but for our own pride.
Yes it’s important but we have to keep perspective when it comes to work.
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