Friday, March 21, 2008

God will bring you through


They say; If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it.
I cannot agree more. The surgery was Monday. We, my husband and I, planned a 3 hour procedure, a short stay and back home to a normal life.
Not so. Surgery lasted 4 and a half hours. He has a temporary bag attached and another surgery ahead in 3 weeks.
He has been in the hospital for 5 days. Maybe, he gets to come home tomorrow. When he does, A nurse will visit and he will have to replace the temporary bag every 3 to 5 days.
But, the blessings outweigh all of that. There was no cancer. And if he hadn't pushed for the colonoscopy, cancer would have developed.
SO, I looked at all my UFO's to take to the hospital to work on, and none, called out to me. But this one, bright ,beautiful, sock yarn.
I wound it the other day, before the surgery. I bought at Bloomin Yarns, it was in the one skein basket. marked down drastically, and just as pretty and bright as could be.
It made me smile when I picked it up. So I bought it, hoping to get a pair of anklets out of it.
So, there it was, the morning of what was to be a dark part of our 22 years of marriage, a symbol of what our marriage is. Bright and cheerful, always making me smile. I had to knit it. And I did. I have the first sock done. The next I will work on when we return to the hospital to put him back together.
My advice to this lesson."Listen to your body, it will tell you when something isn't right. Push for the test you need. Most of all pray for the strength to accept what you will be given."
God is good, he will lead you to and through it.