The Night Before
Tonight is strange. It’s kind of like the night before Christmas, full of anticipation and the feeling that I won’t be able to sleep. The knowing that tomorrow is a day when I will wake before the sun. But instead of waiting in anticipation for something I know will be good, I wait for answers that might be good and might be bad. It’s a strange anticipation. And I know so many people are praying. It gives me comfort and it makes me feel like I am not alone in this health issue with Big. I know people are praying for her both here and abroad. A friend called today and left me a message letting me know the church he visited this morning had Big on their prayer list, and they prayed for her. A friend of the family from my childhood days let me know on social media that the East Coast is praying for Big. I am not alone. God’s family has us blanketed in prayer. But that makes me examine my theology of prayer. ...