The past week has been an entire exercise of having to dig deep in faith. I may tell more detailed versions of the story later, though it is really not my story. The short version is this: our friends were involved in a Medical crisis that involved a week in the local hospital (after ambulance transport from their town 2 hours away) and ended (for us) with their medical evacuation by Air Med Lear Jet to Bangkok. As I got in the car to go to the hospital on the last day to take over nursing duties until the evac team arrived, the song Full Attention by Jeremy Riddle blared through the speakers and I tearfully prayed the words:
May Your voice be louder
May Your voice be clearer
Than all the others
May Your face be dearer
May Your words be sweeter
Than all the others in my life
Please keep my eyes fixed on You
Please wound my heart so deep in You
Keep me abiding, keep me abiding
Keep me abiding that I may be a fruit
May Your your presence be truer
May Your presence be nearer
Than all the others
And may Your light shine brighter
And may Your love move deeper
Than all the other my God
Than all the others in my life
Please keep my eyes fixed on You
Please wound my heart so deep in You
Keep me abiding, keep me abiding
Keep me abiding that I may be a fruit
Please keep my eyes fixed on You
Please wound my heart so deep in You
Keep me asking, keep me near
Keep me abding that I may be a fruit
Keep me close to You
Oh, right next to Your heart
Close to You
I know it is an old song, but it ministered to me.
We almost saw two lives lost this week, and our Father decided to sustain them both and we rejoice at his workings of every. little. detail. Pray for R and her newborn baby A, born two months early. Their journey in this 'crisis' continues. But already God's glory has SHINED awesome and bright in this town.
