INTERESTING WEEKEND
We had a fascinating 24 hours from Friday evening to Saturday evening. I took my own advice from part of yesterday morning's message and just crashed yesterday afternoon for a couple of hours. I was saying in our service that sometimes the first response to weariness needs to be to stop and take a breath. Anyway I'm not going there - if you missed the sermon, you missed it!!!
What had caused the fatigue was two different events -
1. We had continuing updates from our son, Jonathan, on Friday afternoon about a health issue he has been fighting. Having been treated unsuccesfully for pneumonia for several days, a catscan revealed that there is something else going on in his lungs which he needs further medical advice on. So like him and his family, we're waiting to find out the details and like 99% of the human race, at times our minds have to be brought back from dwelling on the worst case scenario.
2. The other issue was that on Saturday evening our friend from the past, Charles Graham, who was due to sing with us on Sunday morning, collapsed in a restaurant and we spent five hours in the ER with him. I was nervous as he appeared totally out of it and his blood pressure was 80 over 60, but he recovered, did a great job in our service and rested up yesterday ready for leaving today.
Interesting weekend indeed!
Now I know there are a bunch of people out there who would be freaking out at this point about the devil attacking and nonsense like that. Gladly I come from the school of thought (and this is Biblical whereas the other is not) that says the devil can't touch me because I belong to Jesus.
Whatever tough things come our way are there by divine permission and are permitted because they are part of his masterplan. So while we celebrate the fact that God protects us, we also know that everything works out for good for those who love him.
Please pray for Jonathan and his family. Pray for Charles too. And thank God that his ways are perfect and his hands are the best place to be in under heaven.
What had caused the fatigue was two different events -
1. We had continuing updates from our son, Jonathan, on Friday afternoon about a health issue he has been fighting. Having been treated unsuccesfully for pneumonia for several days, a catscan revealed that there is something else going on in his lungs which he needs further medical advice on. So like him and his family, we're waiting to find out the details and like 99% of the human race, at times our minds have to be brought back from dwelling on the worst case scenario.
2. The other issue was that on Saturday evening our friend from the past, Charles Graham, who was due to sing with us on Sunday morning, collapsed in a restaurant and we spent five hours in the ER with him. I was nervous as he appeared totally out of it and his blood pressure was 80 over 60, but he recovered, did a great job in our service and rested up yesterday ready for leaving today.
Interesting weekend indeed!
Now I know there are a bunch of people out there who would be freaking out at this point about the devil attacking and nonsense like that. Gladly I come from the school of thought (and this is Biblical whereas the other is not) that says the devil can't touch me because I belong to Jesus.
Whatever tough things come our way are there by divine permission and are permitted because they are part of his masterplan. So while we celebrate the fact that God protects us, we also know that everything works out for good for those who love him.
Please pray for Jonathan and his family. Pray for Charles too. And thank God that his ways are perfect and his hands are the best place to be in under heaven.
posted by Roger Blackmore | 2:12 PM
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