Recovery Room Thoughts

I am in the recovery room as I write this and I'm coming to the end of Calling Away Days. Have you had those?

They're  days when God calls you away from what you know as normal and the new normal becomes just to sit quietly with Him on your couch or downtown as often as you can. Listening. Just listening. And learning, growing,watching and changing, too.

And all the while, God is performing surgery while you're wide awake, but awake to what others around you do not see. It's more like you wonder what's happening inside of you and realize God is the one doing the bit of corrective surgery. He's tweaking thoughts and attitudes which you've believed were right since high school--but high school was a long time ago. Now it's time to move on--in truth this time.

And that's part of it, too. God shows you there is truth, even absolute truth, no matter how many people say no, it doesn't exist and never did. But those are the people who didn't come away when God called, did not submit to the surgery, the tweaking and the recovery time. Or the Bible.

Many people cannot even pause to sit still for the half-hour surgeries, but jump up after the first incision and go out bleeding back out into the world.

But right now I'm in recovery time after having more God Surgery. And God is a better surgeon than all the others. Why? Because after surgery He sits beside you as long as you need Him, holding your hand. He remains there--you spy Him through your tired eyes. And with a comforting whisper, He speaks with so much love that it cuts your healing days in half and makes them a time to be remembered, fondly.



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