His Heart Scribe Inspirations Devotional Magazine July - August 2014 Volume lll Number 5 July-August 2014 | Page 27

July - August 2014 ~

upright. Now he was going to
walk her down the aisle.

(Continued from page 23-Miqweh Yisrael)

He knew he might never get out
of a wheelchair.

This is how Sarah characterizes her interaction with
Andy in the hospital: "Can you
imagine what it would feel like
to wonder if you'd come out of
the operating room with or
without a limb? . . . The human
condition is delicate….I made
Andy a promise a long time ago,
a promise I have every intention of keeping."

When
Sarah
Scholl
wheeled him out to the ambulance for his ride home, she
told him she had a favor to ask.
By then the two had developed
a close doctor-patient relationship. Sarah told him she had
lost her father some time ago.
Would Andy, she wondered,
consider walking her down the
aisle?

Sarah is right. Our human
condition is delicate. God
knows just how delicate, and so
He, too, had made promises designed to help us through our
worst difficulties. Hope is simply the eager anticipation that
those promises will one day
come true. As Christians we believe in these promises because
we believe in the One who made
them. Because Miqweh Yisrael,
our promise-keeping God, we
have been given a future full of
hope.

"Sarah, you don't even
have a boyfriend," came his surprised reply. "Someday I will,"
she told him.
Andy kept in touch with
Sarah after that. One day, seven years after his accident, sixty-two-year-old Andy checked
his email to find a note from
Sarah. Here's what it said: "I
have a boyfriend---will you
come?"
Until the day Sarah picked
him up at the airport prior to
her wedding in Oregon, Sarah
had never seen Andy standing

Promises
Associated with the Name
(Continued on page 30)

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