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By BEV Murphy |
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October HeartBeat
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This story is about patience, letting go, and letting God. God has a plan for all of us. He provides for all our needs. Letting go involves releasing control of your worries, anxieties, and the outcome of situations, acknowledging that you can’ t always fix everything yourself.
Letting God means trusting in God to guide you and work through your challenges. It’ s not about being lazy or not taking
PATIENCE IS NOT ALWAYS EASY start at the beginning,
I’ LL so you have some background about me and my situation. Working in the medical field for 22 years, you’ d think I would have experienced it all. Boy, was I wrong! In November 2020, I got COVID. This was before any vaccines were available. It was actually a very mild case. I didn’ t think anything about it. In February 2021, I went in for a routine check-up with my doctor, who immediately referred me to a nephrologist, where I was told I was in end-stage renal failure. I was stunned. I couldn’ t even comprehend what was happening. He told me that eventually I would need to start dialysis. Well, I’ m not a very patient person. I realized that I couldn’ t do this alone. |
responsibility. It’ s about recognizing your limitations and inviting divine assistance.
Trusting God implies that there’ s a bigger plan in place, and even if things don’ t go as planned, His plan will ultimately always work out for the best.
Jane Wilber
Jay and Jane Wilber oversee the North Central Region as
National Evangelist.
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Granted, I have my husband and son. But I needed more. During my bedtime prayers, I talked to God and told Him I couldn’ t do this by myself. At that point, I turned everything over to God. But I asked Him to teach me patience.
I didn’ t have a problem with turning it all over. Just how long was it going to take? So I concentrated on what I did have control over. After discussing it with my nephrologist, we began the journey of starting dialysis. Which I now know was actually God’ s decision, not mine. So many decisions had to be made. Again, I asked God for more patience and help to understand that all the decisions I needed to make were really His plan for me, not mine.
I really had to pray over that one. To understand that when I gave it all over to Him, He was
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now the one calling the shots, not me. As it should be. Once I came to that conclusion, I never worried again, nor did I question the decisions I made again. Because they really weren’ t my decisions. They were all part of God’ s plan for me. During my journey with getting a kidney, I needed to work on the patience thing really hard. Working with two different facilities was nerve-racking. I asked the first facility what the wait time is for a kidney. I was told,“ Since you are a type A blood, and that is the most common type, your wait will be 4-6 years.” So, when I had my appointment with the second facility again, I asked the same question. My answer was,“ Since you are a type A blood, your wait will be two years.” Each facility draws from a different bank.
Now I’ m going to jump ahead to May 2023. I just had this feeling that I needed to get ready. This feeling really nagged at me for a few days. I always knew I would get a kidney; I just didn’ t know when. I think God really wanted to drop a brick on my head and wake me up. But I finally got it. I packed my hospital bag and put it in the truck. My husband did too. See, it was close to that 2-year mark.
I talked about the wait time. What that means is my 2-year countdown to receiving my transplant started on my first day of
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