Yesterday Was too Short!

It's sweet to have Lisa here, and also the 3 cousins. But the time flies, and the day seems too short. They need to leave immediately after lunch today. We treasure every moment...

Tomorrow I get another chemo. We hope for the best, and pray for the cancer to continue to be destroyed. By Wednesday or Thursday we hope to have an update on the tumor marker readings. Up? Or down? A variety of emotions are wrapped up in these few sentences.

Today's devotion in Streams in the Desert is based on Ephesians 5:19-20, "Sing . . . to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything." We choose to do that. An author known only as C.H.P. tells of watching a man draw some black dots on a piece of paper. They appeared totally meaningless. Then the man added a few lines and drew a treble clef at the beginning. "Suddenly," he says, "we realized that the dots were musical notes, and as we began to sound them out, we were singing, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him all creatures here below."

We all have "black spots" in our lives. C.H.P. says, "As we allow God to adjust the dots in the proper way, to draw the lines He desires, and to put rests at the proper places to separate us from certain things, then from the black dots and spots He will compose a glorious harmony." May it be so for all of us! I have known many people who built glorious harmonies out of very difficult black dots. I thank God that they prove it can be done.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

Love,
Carol