Job

Job's story has to be one of the strangest in the Old Testament. I just finished reading it, not for the first time. As I was reading it I felt knowledge, wisdom and intimacy growing along with questions... loads of questions. We are separated by time, culture, gender and so forth but Job and I understand each other. We don't need words. Eye contact will do. We are experiencing the same emotions. Job understands bewilderment. He knows that many times life just doesn't make sense. It gets even more perplexing when you think you are on the path that God directed and then things start going wrong. This seems to happen a lot. If I figure it out, I will let you know.

Anyway.... Greg and I have encountered more obstacles than success so far on this part of the journey. I have not been able to maintain the plan or try some of the therapy that was recommended. Last week, we drove to San Diego to have another catheter inserted into my stomach. It became infected almost immediately and I suffered a week with it then the doctor decided it needed to come out and sent me back to Saddleback Memorial Hospital where I have been since Wednesday. They are pumping me with IV antibiotics. I will be here until Monday and they are thinking of sending me home with the IV. We are confused. Do we need to extend the trip so I can have more consistent treatment? Do we find something else or stick to the plan? Do we give up? We definitely need wisdom to make some decisions but much of this has been out of our control. We are more grateful than ever for your prayers. If any of you are thinking like Job's friends, I have not sensed it. The bottom line...
  
"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold and not another. How my heart yearns within me." Job 19:25-27