Ssshhhhh

I guess I'm being encouraged to slow down.

I was hospitalized for yet another time this past Monday. It's Thursday, and I was just released from the hospital.

Shunt malfunctioned again. Infectious disease something or other clogged the 'piping.' The humour of the past number of days was found at the beginning. My first memory, basically, is waking up in the hospital room post-op thinking, 'What? What is thi . . . Why am I here? Aww, boo. Jeez." And then asking others to fill in the details, only a few of which I really remember.

The two weeks of antibiotics treatment that follows my release from the hospital puts me to March 14. The follow up doctor's appointment? Puts me past March 16. So, no returning to Senegal on March 16.

For those who might still be reading this blog, that puts me at a new crossroads. Where next? What the heck am I supposed to be doing with my useless self. I neither have the patience to wait any more to get better nor do I want to sit around and do nothing with my time. And yet, here I will be, sitting, waiting, waiting . . . waiting.

Over the next few weeks, I want to be in prayer and Scripture about other next steps I might be being encouraged to take. I've mentioned this to a number of friends and family already: I'm not naive enough to ignore what's been going on, but I'm also not rash enough to jump to unnecessary conclusions just because of difficult times. So, I hope to spend some time in quiet.

It's what the title refers to. God wants me to be quiet, I think, to simply listen and reflect.

So, because I have loads of time on my hands, it seems, I will be working to do just that.

If it interests you in any way, both for my sake, but also for your own, I invite you to do the same. You never know what we both might discover.

I don't know what I'll find, but frankly, I have few demands to make since I've never really done something like this before. So, it will be a new discipline for me. And I hope it provides some insight and direction. I'm trusting that it will.

"Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him." – PSALMS 37:7A