Faith Looks Up

<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sorrow looks back</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Worry looks around</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Faith looks up.</em></p> <p> </p> <p>In my 59 years of life I have fought people, ideals, crime, poverty, depression, oppression, racism, sexism, doubt, insecurity, fear, unbelief, mental, physical and spiritual illness and sin of all kinds<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I have the wrinkles, moles and scars to prove it. <span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I have never cried so much this year that I can remember.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> I have learned about myself and my God. And I want to share some of it with you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>This week my wife returns home from rehab after the removal of a brain tumor almost the size of a grapefruit.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> The surgery was worse than the tumor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> She is like a stroke victim trying to regain herself.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> She cannot walk talk or eat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Her throat muscles have forgotten how to work.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> She has a feeding tube in her stomach.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> She is coming home because she has outstayed the length of time our insurance has.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> And the so called therapy she was supposed to get was lacking to me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> I will add the occupation of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> caregiver, speech, occupational and physical therapist to my resume starting Monday. <span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p>I am going to do this and going to do it well.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> I know God has built me for this.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father</em></p> <p><em>There is