My answer to the question: What are 3 things I think of when I hear the word Life.
This was written in reply to a survey question I was asked on the SOS radio station music board.
Wow, it is funny you ask that now. Since December my mother has had so many heart attacks. She is still alive. I remember sitting in the hospital with her Christmas Eve and she was saying maybe she should just die because she was such a burden on everyone.
It is difficult to convince someone in poor health to keep fighting when you and she both believe that you shut your eyes here and open them in Heaven. There would be no more pain and no more tears, yet we continue to fight for life here. That just makes me wonder why do we do that?
I had so many talks with God over the past 8 months about her life, and asking God to help me deal with His decisions no matter what.
She has told me in the worst of times that God is not ready for her yet. It makes you wonder, what more does she have to do? How is God going to use her life here in a mighty way? I do not doubt that He is going to do something great.
She almost died again over a week ago due to prescribed drugs not being given to us with the correct directions for administering.
God allowed us to have a cardiologist appointment at just the right time when if we did not have that appointment her heart probably would have stopped.
There are no coincidences when you believe in God.
For 8 months I have been asking if they can give my mother a stint, or open the clogged arteries. The answer is always no. There are so many people praying all around the world.
Long story a bit shorter. My mother was transferred to a hospital in Los Angeles where she was examined by even more cardiologists. They saw things the other doctors did not see, and God’s timing again, my brother and I were there when they said they thought the stint procedure could be done.
God gets the glory. We are going to pick my mother up tomorrow and take her back to her house. It is a long drive, and I have to believe that God would not have taken her this far and then not give her the strength
for a 3-4 hour ride home.
There is so much to be grateful and thankful for. Our life is a gift from God. I am not sure what is waiting when we leave life on planet Earth and go to life in Heaven. Eternal life with no sorrow and tears. I am not sure of all the details, but it will be nice to lose the sin nature. The music in heaven is going to be incredible.
Life is a journey. My GPS is prayer, God gives the directions. When I don’t listen I get lost, but all I have to do is seek the rerouting and forgiveness and I get back on the right path.
Your blogs are amazing and so uplifting. <3
Thanks for taking the time to read my writings, Margaret. It is my therapy.