Answer on the way

Not all at once, but little by little, God is answering prayers and breaking through the blockage. I can't say I feel better yet; the abdominal pain has been pretty severe. But I can deal with that, and I'm so thankful to be looking forward to physical improvement in the next day or two.

Meanwhile, I've been listening to messages from the Moody Founder's Week conference held in February. They've made the day pretty special, after all. And I just picked up Erwin Lutzer's book, The Vanishing Power of Death, through which I've been grazing, and found this:

"The people were not wrong in thinking that the Messiah would set things right on earth, but they were wrong regarding the timetable. Today, we have health-and-wealth preachers who tell us that our bodies can be healed, that we can live with luxury, and that we should always be able to enjoy life--and they are right, but wrong about the time frame. In this life, we have suffering . . . .

"Suffering does not reflect unfavorably on the promises of Scripture. We take heart tht there is another world coming, in which all of the promised blessings will be realized. Just as God does not create a single fish without creating water in which it can swim, so God does not create longings for eternity without creating an eternity in which those longings will be fulfilled."

That's our hope!

Thankfully,
Carol