So God works in mysterious ways, I’ve never denied this and today was a good example. This morning I was trying to call my mom because my dad was going in for a Triple Bypass 3- CABG super early. I couldn’t reach my mom and was a little rattled for sure. It was 7:16 a.m. when I tried calling.
The day wore on and my mom called me, saying “in ten minutes they’ll break open your father’s chest” and almost to the minute that they were breaking my father’s chest open we had a client walk in from a church. It was a bit surreal… you can laugh if you’re not a believer but I knew as much as he thought he was here to buy restaurant equipment that he was a divine messenger.
Just at the time I went up to shake his hand and thought ‘you’re not here for restaurant equipment, God sent you’, I looked at an email open on someone’s desk- the first line was “I am a minister” and the time it was sent out was two minutes from the time I had been trying to get my mom on the phone. I’m not too proud to tell you through tears that today I’m glad it was about more than restaurant equipment. I knew there was a greater sign in all of that for me; the promise in what might prove to be an emotional day that I’m in good hands. Today I’m grateful God gave me these reminders that the world is much larger and that he works in mysterious ways- through the hands of every day people, through those of surgeons and nurses, friends, family and strangers. I’m forever humbled … I guess that sums it up.
So today’s saga ends that I received notice that my Dad had a 5 vessel bypass also known as a CABG (cabbage) rather than the Triple Bypass we were expecting. Serious either way. I was really impressed that the nurse and surgeon working with my father had their eyes on my mom for shock. They knew her as an individual and knew my folks have been married almost fifty years.
I’ll keep you posted on how the 5 CABG went. Seems like a big deal to me; the nurses tell me that once you have ’em open it doesn’t matter if you do more- it’s the same recuperation, etc. I’ll know more tomorrow that’s for sure. Tonight they’ll wake my dad up and from what I hear already have him sitting in a chair upright tomorrow. Forever he’ll have some sort of steel banding and prayers holding his chest together. Steel banding and prayers- one sets the security alarm off at the airport and the other sets your heart at peace.
So right now I’m not writing about restaurant equipment, that’s secondary. I’m just hoping that this is of some worth, maybe you need to hear about life after 5 CABG or maybe you needed to be reminded there’s something larger than you in this life. My prayer for you, that it’s the latter and that you find these reminders in your own life, too, as I did today.
Blessings and prayers from my heart to yours.