By Shekinah:
We trust God for it.
We can make a conscious decision to trust God,
or another person, but at the same time trust is
also something that grows with experience.
We have been experiencing God’s marvelous
care for us in so many ways being on the road as pilgrims without residence, having travelled thousands of miles without savings, or working for money. So for many things, where other people would have difficulty to trust God, trusting has become natural for us. But we are still learning as well, and there are always new challenges ahead.
David and I both desire to learn complete trust in God in every aspect of our lives, which includes trust concerning our state of health.
Comparatively speaking we have been enjoying tremendous strength and fitness during these years of our pilgrimage, yet we have both also been sick at times. It has always been a time of learning and gaining some understanding.
When one of us was sick we usually had a place to rest and recuperate. Most of these times we were with very kind and caring people who had taken us in. We like to cooperate in the healing process by eating and resting right, but if that is not possible, God is not limited by physical circumstances. On a few occasions, when it was necessary for some reason, God gave us the strength to continue being on the road in spite of being sick, and we got better even without getting much rest.
August 2013, on our way from Poland into the Ukraine in the middle of the night I, Shekinah, tripped in the dark and fell. After sleeping in the forest we arrived in Lvov the next day. I had been hobbling along with some pain in my foot and thought I had a sprained ankle. We were sitting in the street singing some songs and talking with people. We do not sing for money, but quite a few people started giving us money anyway, surprisingly much, a lot more than we might have needed for just some food or the city bus.
It has been very rare that we have had anything to do with the medical profession, but my foot had turned blue and swollen up very much so we felt I needed to get it x-rayed. It turned out that in fact I had broken a bone in my foot. God had supplied exactly the money we needed for the x-ray, the doctor’s visit, the cast and crutches. How amazing. And he set us up in a community of some very sweet young people, with plenty of time to work on our web-site, while my body was producing new bone tissue to fix my foot. I never cease to marvel about how ingeniously our bodies function.
This was the first time in 8 years that an accident of a little more serious nature happened to us.
I have come to understand that God, who is my lover and parent, never lets anything happen to me, unless there is something good in. When the good is not so evident, then, in my quiet times, he/she helps me to understand the purpose of the situation. It always is a loving purpose.
We trust God for it.
We can make a conscious decision to trust God,
or another person, but at the same time trust is
also something that grows with experience.
We have been experiencing God’s marvelous
care for us in so many ways being on the road as pilgrims without residence, having travelled thousands of miles without savings, or working for money. So for many things, where other people would have difficulty to trust God, trusting has become natural for us. But we are still learning as well, and there are always new challenges ahead.
David and I both desire to learn complete trust in God in every aspect of our lives, which includes trust concerning our state of health.
Comparatively speaking we have been enjoying tremendous strength and fitness during these years of our pilgrimage, yet we have both also been sick at times. It has always been a time of learning and gaining some understanding.
When one of us was sick we usually had a place to rest and recuperate. Most of these times we were with very kind and caring people who had taken us in. We like to cooperate in the healing process by eating and resting right, but if that is not possible, God is not limited by physical circumstances. On a few occasions, when it was necessary for some reason, God gave us the strength to continue being on the road in spite of being sick, and we got better even without getting much rest.
August 2013, on our way from Poland into the Ukraine in the middle of the night I, Shekinah, tripped in the dark and fell. After sleeping in the forest we arrived in Lvov the next day. I had been hobbling along with some pain in my foot and thought I had a sprained ankle. We were sitting in the street singing some songs and talking with people. We do not sing for money, but quite a few people started giving us money anyway, surprisingly much, a lot more than we might have needed for just some food or the city bus.
It has been very rare that we have had anything to do with the medical profession, but my foot had turned blue and swollen up very much so we felt I needed to get it x-rayed. It turned out that in fact I had broken a bone in my foot. God had supplied exactly the money we needed for the x-ray, the doctor’s visit, the cast and crutches. How amazing. And he set us up in a community of some very sweet young people, with plenty of time to work on our web-site, while my body was producing new bone tissue to fix my foot. I never cease to marvel about how ingeniously our bodies function.
This was the first time in 8 years that an accident of a little more serious nature happened to us.
I have come to understand that God, who is my lover and parent, never lets anything happen to me, unless there is something good in. When the good is not so evident, then, in my quiet times, he/she helps me to understand the purpose of the situation. It always is a loving purpose.
Shekinah with cast on foot, Lvov, Ukraine, August, 2013
What if you get sick?