EBOLA: TRUST IN GOD!

“Are you worried about Johnny in Liberia?”  That’s the question I am asked almost daily since the Ebola outbreak.

Every mother naturally worries about her children.  However, in this case worry is not the word I would use to describe my feelings.  Trust is much more accurate. 

I trust my son’s judgment.  Five and a half years ago he chose to enter into a faith based community, Comunita Cenacolo, to heal his interior brokenness and the drug addiction that placed him at death’s door.   I trust he will continue to make healthy choices that will protect him from Ebola.  I trust God who is the author of my son’s life and the source of his decision to commit two years of his life to serving the Liberian people by caring for their orphans.

I trust my son’s heart, knowing that he is on his knees asking God for strength, courage and direction in the face of both his interior challenges and the exterior hurdles.   I trust God who is right there with him, carrying him on the wings of grace through those unpredictable storms that are blowing his way.

And I trust my oldest son’s desire-despite the potential hazards, to live an authentic life of truth through service to others.  I absolutely trust the overarching and unconditional love of God who formed Johnny for this very moment in time long before my child ever entered my womb. 

Johnny’s physical, psychological and spiritual resurrection has brought me a peace that is beyond human understanding, and I trust this is Johnny’s destiny-designed by God.

“So do I worry?  Very simply, I trust.”

             But he knows the way that I take,
               when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
                                                Job 23:10