Wasting Away

Each day is a new day. Today was better than yesterday, but maybe I shouldn't compare. I am currently in the day-to-day. It's hard to look too far ahead. I just want to see my Daddy improve, instead of wasting away. Today, though, he was more alert, able to get up and walk with his walker, talk and tease a little more, visit with a friend for a bit, and take a bite of a sandwich (which was a shock...he has not done that for a long time!)

I am constantly seeking Godly counsel, and I ran across a message from John Piper, called "The Glory of God in the Sight of Eternity". http://www.desiringgod.org/conference-messages/do-not-lose-heart

"That is what I mean by saying every moment of your affliction is meaningful. It has meaning. It is doing something. Causing something. Bringing about something glorious. You can’t see this. The world can’t see this. They think, and you are tempted to think, this suffering is meaningless. It’s not doing anything good. I can’t see any good coming out of this. That’s what you feel if you focus on the seen. To which Paul responds, look to the things that are unseen. The promise of God. Nothing in your pain is meaningless. It is all preparing. Working something. Producing something — a weight of glory, a special glory for you. Just for you because of that pain."

Of course, I am praying for complete healing and how God would be glorified through that, but If that is not His plan, then we will continue to glorify Him in the midst of the pain.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18English Standard Version (ESV)

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.