Bright eyes gladden the heart;

Good news puts fat on the bones.
Prov. 15:30

Dw and I memorized that scripture about 32 years ago….yes, indeed good news makes us want to celebrate and eat, doesn’t it??

I thought you all would want to hear some good news and rejoice with us {and go ahead eat something fun to celebrate with us!!}.

Frankly, this waiting and wondering has not been fun. And it can also be paralyzing. Which is how I have been feeling. Paralyzed. What should I do and where should I go? What about time frame? Who should I find to do the surgery?

Thank you to all who have prayed and asked the Lord to give us direction!! The other morning I felt like the Lord said, “Today you will find your answer.” I had an appointment with a rheumatologist and thought, “She will know who I should go to for surgery.”

Only thing is, when I got to the appointment I was told, “I’m so sorry, the girl was supposed to call you and tell you that there was a glitch in the system and you don’t really have an appointment – not for 3 weeks!” Hmmmm. Okay. She apologized profusely and I said, “Listen, if this is the worst thing that ever happened, I would throw a party!” She laughed.

That being said, apparently the rheumatologist was not going to be the one to point me to a surgeon. ugh. Which makes God’s plan such a stinkin’ adventure, right? I thought, “Oh, so you’re going to surprise me with who has the answer, huh?”

As I left the rheumatologist’s office, I knew Dw was meeting with a doctor who attends our church. He is a friend of ours. Dw had told me to stop by cause it was on my way home and he couldn’t wait to hear what the rheumatologist said. So I drove to meet up with Dw and our friend, the doc. I told this doc {and our friend} our dilemna. He said, “Have you thought about so-n-so? He is a personal friend and he bought your house up on the canyon, you know who I mean?” OH! Wow.

So this morning I called the office of the doctor who bought our house up on the canyon. You know what house I mean? I showed you guys pictures of that house here. That’s the one we sold so we could get out of mortgage debt and free us to go adopt our most recent four treasures!!

Anyway, his office told me that he indeed has done tons of thyroid surgeries….he is right here in our city….and just think, he kind of “knows” us {cause he bought our home, how cool is that?}. So I have an appointment two weeks from today {9/16/10} to talk to him about my situation.

Yippee Jesus!!!

I am overjoyed and feel like a burden has been lifted.

Hurdle number one is done. We have found a surgeon! He is right in our city. I can have surgery right here at our hospital, minutes from our home. Seriously, I am beside myself with relief. We had not known he would do thyroid surgery….we had not thought of him….and if that appointment had not been canceled I might not have met up with our friend {the doctor from church} and Dw….and so yes, God is always at work behind the scenes.

Which brings me to something else….

A sweet friend sent me an email this morning. She wanted me to know that the Lord is telling me not to Fear. Which is exactly what the Lord has been saying. Isn’t it funny….I know I’m not supposed to fear…but fear is so sneaky. It creeps in and can paralyze us. I phoned my friend and told her that her letter was definitely the Lord speaking. I needed to hear her say it to jolt me into reality. To remind me that He has my back. That I am to just trust.

How faithful God is. I repented of having let fear sneak in. I will go back to the scripture I memorized in the early 80’s. The scripture that set me free way back then….{and I wrote about being set free from here}

It was for freedom that Christ set you free, therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to this yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1

Boy oh boy, fear can be such slavery, can’t it? I don’t want to be entangled at all to it. Not now. Not ever again. It sucks the life out of me. It immobilizes. It accomplishes nothing.

Almighty God has put me here to fulfill a very specific purpose and I cannot do that while entangled to fear. So I am standing firm on His promises of faithfulness, remembering that He has my back…and confident that this really will be yet another Memorial Box Monday story to be sure!!