February 21
I’m getting mixed messages. Oncologist and infectious disease doctors see improvement–ICU and Respiratory doctors see the need for oxygen increasing. I see him struggling to breath and constantly talking about him dying in the hospital.
He can’t leave ICU until his need for oxygen reduces. If he were to go on hospice, he can’t go home until there is a significant drop in the amount of oxygen he needs.
He seems more like his old self most of the day, but he still gets very angry and frustrated at all that is going on around him. He no longer asks to go home, he’s resigned to hospital life for now…doesn’t like it but is enduring it.
Everyone is flummoxed. He’s not responding in any expected way.
What is God going to do? Heal him and have him continue on earth with quite a testimony? Or take him to walk with Him in the heavenly garden.
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-18
I don’t know, yet I will trust in the Lord.
Where’s the joy?
I am thankful that Norm is getting great care.
I pray for his heart to be encouraged.
I rejoice that though I watch everything falling apart, I can take joy in the God of my salvation.
TRICIA LATHROP 