Berried Treasure

We've been a bit busy here with doctor and dentist appointments. One of the benefits of being in the military is the free medical and free dental when you're overseas, so we're trying to get in our last check-ups before we get out.

Monday night is my Bible Study night with the ladies from our church. We are currently studying Daniel, and this week was chapter 3 where Shadrach, Meshack, and Abed-nego are thrown into the fiery furnace. The lady in the Calvary Chapel video we watched (sorry, I can't remember her name) had an awesome analogy for us to remember. Whenever we are going through the "fiery" trials of life we can simply remember what the firemen tell us:

STOP worrying, stressing, and running around
DROP to our knees and pray
ROLL all our troubles onto the Lord
and
WRAP ourselves in God's Word

Isn't this awesome? My first application of this is Michelle's eyes. She happens to be someone prone to getting styes. She's had between 40 and 50 of them in her short 5 years. Most of them stay small and go away quickly, but occasionally, she gets one that just won't go away. She already has scars on her right eyelid from one that got REALLY bad a while back. Well, she's been fighting one (or actually a series of them in the same area) for almost a month now. It got pretty bad at one point and I took her to see the doc who prescribed some medicine. Of all the times we've taken her in, they've always said "warm compresses, and wash with baby shampoo". This was the first time they'd given us an antibiotic. Unfortunately, it seems that she is allergic to it because within a few hours the whites of her eyes were really red, she had a rash below her eye, and she was itching really bad. WE stopped the medicine and are back to the simple washing and warm compress routine. With my new lesson in mind, I'm learning to

STOP worrying and stressing about it. We're doing everything we can to help her and worrying isn't going to change it.
DROP on my knees and pray, which I've been doing, but now I'm praying for God's will and not mine.
ROLL the situation on God who is the ultimate Physician. I know He is more than able to heal her and He knows what it best for her.
and as I WRAP myself in His Word, I find "For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds, " declares the Lord, Jeremiah 30:17a I know that He loves Michelle and she is in the best of Hands!

Now, I just need to apply this to retiring, building a house, teenagers, finances, moving, etc. etc.... :o)

Here's a picture I took of Michelle recently. Her sty looks pretty good in this picture.