Where Does Your Help Come From?

This time last week, I watched as paramedics loaded my mom into an ambulance and rushed her to the emergency room. It was one of those moments that feels almost unreal; the kind of scene you might see on television, except you’re suddenly living it, and your world feels like it’s being turned upside down.

By God’s grace and through the gift of modern medicine, Mom was able to come home a few days later without surgery or further complications. She had suffered an intestinal obstruction that left her very sick and caused significant swelling. It could have been much worse.

It wasn’t how we had planned to spend our time together. But life has a way of interrupting our plans and reminding us what truly matters. Thankfully, this chapter passed, quite literally.

A few days later, sitting on her patio and basking in the warmth of a sultry East Texas summer evening, I looked at my mom and saw someone who has spent a lifetime overcoming. God has blessed her with an incredible strength and resilience, formed in her earliest years as a child growing up amid the horrors of war, with bombs falling around her, and now, in her golden years, finding joy in the simple beauty of an East Texas sunset.

Friend, who do you turn to in moments like these? I could only turn to the Lord.

¹ I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2 NIV

Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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