From the moment we sign in, we begin the biggest lesson of all, waiting. We wait to hear our names called and we wait to be weighed, and have our vital signs taken. We wait for the instructions, we wait for the doctor to come in, we wait for the exam, we wait for the results of the tests. We wait to hear if we are better or we are going to have to have more tests or we wait to be sent to the lab or for the x-rays. While we wait we pray. We pray for the time to go a little faster so we can get leave. Would we pray for that if we knew we had only a few more months, years to live? We pray for the test to be negative or the chlolesterol or blood pressure numbers to be right. We pray for a quick diagnosis and a quick fix. Surely they got a cure for this by now! Look how far medical science has come! But we know we better pray about it just in case. And we wait for word. We wait for medicine. We wait for recovery. We wait for answers. How can we not? That is the lesson. We have to wait. We will wait. We are going to wait.
So we learn what waiting is. We learn it is occupying. We learn it is standing. It is being still. It is pacing. It is looking for that letter from home. It is hoping that ringing phone is a call from that prodigal son or daughter. It is watching kids grow and learn. It is sitting at the bedside of an old mother who calls the child by the wrong name. It is waiting. It is a real lesson. Next time you in the doctor's office, signing in, know that another class of life is about to begin the minute you pray "Please, God..."
Helen's daughter knows you are going to learn something..
Yes, I do believe a doctor's visit is a praying lesson. My Spiritual Walk was still short steps in 2006--3 years old. I wound up in my doctor's office on a Monday--with symptoms I never had before. Those symptoms led to open-heart surgery. My new trust and faith in God were tested. Because of Him, I am healed. I thank Him everyday and posted it on my blog.
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