Praise The Lord!

So it started yesterday afternoon when I picked up the phone about 4:45... "Okay Steph, don't panic but I'm on the way to see Dr. B (an optometrist friend from church) because I'm having some floaters in the left eye" said my husband. Me in response, "I'm on my way!" and like that I was stressed and nervous to the point of having a rash across my pounding chest. For those of you who don't know, my husband has had detached retinas in both his eyes. So he's also had close to a dozen eye surgeries in the past four and a half years. And he's honestly one of the last people you would wish that kind of stuff on but nonetheless, he married me so he's probably destined for more than his fair share of an uphill battle. And because we've bounced from one medical emergency to another in this family, I tend to be a little apocalyptic in my expectations. So I fully expected our last-minute trip to the specialist to be doom and gloom, another detachment or some rare eye cancer (again, if you only knew the half of it--someday I'll share all those stories but they are looooonnnnngggg) or something equally devastating. Plus, it's Mississippi State week and I'm telling you, my husband just has issues with that game. The doctor discovered the detachment last year on Thanksgiving Eve (the scrub nurses were lovin' us as they were called back in to work all night on his eyes) but they feel like it actually detached a couple of weeks before--dun, dun, dun--around the time of the MSU game. It appeared we had gotten Croomed once again.

But as of about noon central standard time, it looks like all is well with his eyes and our life can return to normal programming. Thus, I'm praising the Lord (the one and only Jesus) for another day of mercy. I had honestly resided myself to God's apparent will that we become oversea missionaries but it looks as though we'll have to shelve those plans for now. I cannot tell you what a blessing the main eye doc has been. He is an awesome, awesome guy with amazing abilities as well as a heart for God and his patients. We didn't even know he was a Christian until years after our first meeting but it was always obvious he was a special man. We thank God for leading him into our lives and for all the people who bless us but we mostly thank Him for His infinite mercy and grace that gives us assurance no matter the situation....because I can most assuredly plan on another "situation" at some point in the future. :)

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11