Medicine

Mary’s Monday Musing to Quilt Encouragement

Medicine

The nurse rolled a sturdy pole on wheels to my hospital bedside. From it, she carefully hung several bags filled with clear, heavy looking fluids. One was labeled Cipro. The other labels were too small to read from where my head lay on my pillow. With gentle efficiency, she hooked the bags up to the intravenous needle already inserted into a vein in my arm. Not a first-choice process, but a welcome one when one needs large doses of powerful medicines that would challenge the stomach if taken orally. I was thankful for the people who had developed the medicines and the process as well as those who administered them. I wanted to get well.

Life sometimes demands other processes that are uncomfortable or even painful. However, they are necessary to attain physical health as well as emotional or spiritual well-being. We can welcome processes that bring about our beneficial thinking, our necessary education, or needful duties even if they carry unpleasant moments. God, help us recognize when we should cooperate with an activity or process that we don’t welcome, but need. Help us tell the difference between important, needful things in our life and those we should resist and refuse. Please give us discernment to recognize what to yield to and when to resist. Help us grow and mature into people who can discern the important from the unimportant and give us the courage to endure the unpleasant when necessary while maintaining hope for Your blessings.