Sunday, March 26, 2006
A SPECIAL SUNDAY.....MARCH 26, 2006
Today is Sunday. Not just any Sunday but one that comes before our big day on Monday. We are scheduled to see Dr. Eck at 8:30 in the morning when we find out just what the biopsy says about Rocky’s liver. It will be two weeks to the day when Rocky underwent surgery for his colon cancer.
We had great faith in Dr. Eck, who is a young and positive man. He should wear a sign on him that reads, “capable and able”……..if I were judging him by Military standards, I would say he is a tough Marine. He doesn’t mince words but gives an educated plan on how to combat the cancer. Talking with him was a strategic look at what we could expect.
There was no plan for retreating.
……and so we find ourselves through stage one of the “plan” and now we will soon be into plan two. If Rocky is released from Dr. Eck we should soon be seeing Dr. Morgan who is the top-notch oncologist in this area. If I had qualms about going to a small hospital in a small town……I am no longer a skeptic.
At one point in our post-op visit I told Dr. Eck that he wouldn’t be around our area very long…..he was too good. I expected he would be going to Springfield to the larger hospitals in the near future. To my surprise, he told us he had been affiliated with one of the major hospitals in Springfield but they had such administrative woes it was always a huge battle and the patient was the loser. Aside from that, he was more or less “owned” by the hospital and didn’t have a voice in his own profession.
He went on to say that many of the surgeons and physicians are leaving the large hospitals because of overcrowding, incompetent administrators and working against their own convictions. Dr. Eck liked the smaller town to raise children and live a simpler life.
I read an account one time of the angels asking Christ why he would leave it to fishermen, tax collectors, doctors……all simple uneducated men to carry the story of salvation to the world……and if he was afraid it wouldn’t work…and if he should have a back-up plan. Christ simply said…… “There is no other plan.”
I don’t reckon ourselves on that grand scale……I only know that what we find out tomorrow is a perfect plan…and there is no other. Having done all we know to do, (as Paul wrote in Ephesians Chapter 6:`13.…..“having done all, to stand”)…..in a Christian’s life, there is no retreat…….his shield is only made to protect the forward side, there is nothing mentioned about being shielded on the back side.
Faith cannot lose the battle……it perseveres whatever the outcome.
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
We had great faith in Dr. Eck, who is a young and positive man. He should wear a sign on him that reads, “capable and able”……..if I were judging him by Military standards, I would say he is a tough Marine. He doesn’t mince words but gives an educated plan on how to combat the cancer. Talking with him was a strategic look at what we could expect.
There was no plan for retreating.
……and so we find ourselves through stage one of the “plan” and now we will soon be into plan two. If Rocky is released from Dr. Eck we should soon be seeing Dr. Morgan who is the top-notch oncologist in this area. If I had qualms about going to a small hospital in a small town……I am no longer a skeptic.
At one point in our post-op visit I told Dr. Eck that he wouldn’t be around our area very long…..he was too good. I expected he would be going to Springfield to the larger hospitals in the near future. To my surprise, he told us he had been affiliated with one of the major hospitals in Springfield but they had such administrative woes it was always a huge battle and the patient was the loser. Aside from that, he was more or less “owned” by the hospital and didn’t have a voice in his own profession.
He went on to say that many of the surgeons and physicians are leaving the large hospitals because of overcrowding, incompetent administrators and working against their own convictions. Dr. Eck liked the smaller town to raise children and live a simpler life.
I read an account one time of the angels asking Christ why he would leave it to fishermen, tax collectors, doctors……all simple uneducated men to carry the story of salvation to the world……and if he was afraid it wouldn’t work…and if he should have a back-up plan. Christ simply said…… “There is no other plan.”
I don’t reckon ourselves on that grand scale……I only know that what we find out tomorrow is a perfect plan…and there is no other. Having done all we know to do, (as Paul wrote in Ephesians Chapter 6:`13.…..“having done all, to stand”)…..in a Christian’s life, there is no retreat…….his shield is only made to protect the forward side, there is nothing mentioned about being shielded on the back side.
Faith cannot lose the battle……it perseveres whatever the outcome.
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
