When Lent comes, since we post the writings of the Lenten Devotional on the Web site, I usually do not write any blogs.  The reason is that I do not want to interupt the flow of the Lenten Devotionals.
 But getting back into writing a Notion Devotion has been, well, it seems like no one reads them and I have been dealing with health things.  For those who have been praying, I want to thank you for your prayers.  It was so freeing to know I was being prayed over.
 Friday, July 22, Dr. Hurley's office called and told me there were no cancerous polyps, no masses, and no diverticulitis.  As a result, I do not have to have another colonoscopy until 2016 before my 61st birthday due to family history.
 But I wonder why not me?  Especially when we have a prayer request for a 2 year old full of untreatable tumors whose only hope is God.  I don't even want to imagine what the family is going through.  I remember the mourning and anguish of King David over his first child with Bathsheba...
 I remember God is LOVE and God is SOVEREIGN.  I admit these two attributes are hard for my mind to reconcile.  The US culture doesn't help.  They treat these virtues and qualities as irreconcilable in any being, putting them on a two dimensional line at opposing ends.  And let's not get into the myriad of other characteristics not even recognized in God.
 So I look to Jesus, not just in what he says and does, but in what he doesn't say or do.  And I am in awe.
 I leave you with this question:
Can you trust and obey someone you cannot describe or even understand? 

Rest Easy in Jesus, barbara