Score One For Modern Medicine
I'm usually a crunchy girl, but this time, I'm happy for "advancements."
I’m the first one to reach for alternative approaches, but right now, I’m super grateful for a surgical robot and my gynecologist, as well as a hospital to recover in and some IV meds to make it all a little easier.
If you follow me on IG, you know that this year has been one foiled attempt after another as I’ve sought relief from two years of stage 4 adenomyosis . Once I was resigned to surgery being the best course of action, I was ready to GO… but the Lord had other plans.
Well, surgery finally happened on December 8, and I’m a week and a couple of days into healing. My progress has been incredible, to which I credit a ton of prayer, God’s mercy, and some very wise homeopathic practitioners who have come alongside me. Even though I’m still early in recovery I’m already feeling so much more energy and optimism as I look ahead. It’s truly wonderous how one hard thing can become such a part of you, eating away at your joy, that its removal feels shocking. That’s the only way I can describe where I am right now.
But here’s the thing: if I hadn’t finally dropped my assumptions about how God would work (healing me through prayer or other natural means), I wouldn’t be standing here enjoying this newfound state of physical peace.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!—Romans 11:33
It’s so easy to shove God into a box, or to grab onto a set of “rules” which we decide He must want to follow. How often does this delay our hearing His voice, or push us to think that He can’t (or won’t) answer? Our own stubbornness is to blame when we refuse to consider that God’s toolbox is much bigger than the one we’ve assigned to Him. After all… He made the entire world!
This experience has given me pause to reconsider so many other things that I may have held on to just as tightly as my passion for homeopathy and herbs. Can you think of any ways you may have been blinded to God’s bigger picture for you thanks to your own assumptions? If so, can you have enough faith in Him to let Him work as only He can?
In Christ,
Heather