This has been a long week. I was looking forward to it being over, until Friday got here, and the week decided it didn't want to be over. My granddad has been in the hospital this week; it has been really strange. He is 68 years old, and this is the first time in his life he has ever even been to the doctor (amazing right?).
Friday night we had a service at our church and my granddad (who is also my pastor) was complaining of a stomach ache. After church, he still had a stomach ache. At four o'clock the next morning he still had a stomach ache. He was in a tremendous amount of pain, it was really scary to me, because I had never seen him like that. So my grandmama took him to the ER, where he was admitted into the hospital with a complete blockage of his small intestine. At the hospital, they pumped his stomach and put him on some pain medicine, hoping his body would just heal itself, but it didn't, and he went into surgery on Sunday morning.
I'm not exactly sure what they found or why his intestine was blocked in the first place. I'm not fluid in the medical lingo and I'm not even going to pretend like I know what I am talking about. All I know is there were no tumors, Praise the Lord! So they fixed him up and said he would probably be released on Friday.
Today is Friday, my granddad is still in the hospital. They had started to give him food, but he then started having pain again. As it turns out, his intestine has not "woken up" since the surgery. So they had to keep him. Let's be honest, this makes me sad, I feel like a little kid. I want him to come home.
However, his being in the hospital has opened my eyes so much to so many things. Ultimately, I have learned that God takes care of his people and he can use the most undesirable situation to teach us that. My granddad is such a wonderful man of God, he is a rock, and yet he is so humble. Today I sat in the hospital room next to him as he told me what God has been speaking to him through his sickness, tears streaming down his face.
I am so privileged, so blessed, to be a part of such a wonderful family. I have such a great heritage. I feel like I have rambled a bit, but I am blown away by God. I can't begin to even do justice to the description of God's grace and mercy in my life. I am so undeserving, yet God sees me and he has shown me favor. This ultimately has come about because of the sacrifice, the willingness, the hard work of the generations before me. I could look at this situation and say "it will pass, it will all be over soon" but instead I choose to say, "lets stay here a little while, lets learn all we can." God wants to reveal himself to us, he wants to show us the true extent of his power.
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