Yesterday morning, Anand woke up with fever. Both he and Namrata have been sniffing and sneezing for a couple of days, and had some cough. We gave him some Paracetamol and nose drops, and he was active and playful all day.
At night, he refused to eat anything...very unusual behaviour for him. I listened to his chest and looked at his throat, and everything seemed okay.
By about midnight, we found him coughing quite badly, and fretting and sleeping fitfully. He seemed quite breathless, with laboured breathing. We listened again to his chest and found he had developed a wheeze, and a right sided pneumonia. We took him down to the Casualty, where Xrays were done, and a swab taken for swine flu. He was given nebulised salbutamol, and started on antibiotics. Today, he has been much better.
It looks like a number of things have been happening to us as a family over the last few weeks. As I was wondering why, I realised that God has been trying to get our attention in many ways. Unfortunately, we have responded to each of these situations with our own wise planning, and dependence on other human beings, rather than turning to Him as we ought to have done.
Arpita is quite sick? No problem...call for help and Ashita and Bijayanthi arrive as reinforcements to help us.
Car breaks down twice in the middle of nowhere? No problem, call for help and parents arrive from Bangalore to pick us up and take us home. We know a good mechanic...call him over the phone, and they tow us back to Vellore. I'm sure this can be sorted out etc, etc
Left shoulder needs surgery? No problem.....India's finest shoulder surgeon is right here where I am. He will sort it out. Mom will come from Bangalore, etc etc
Anand has a pneumonia? No problem.....go to Casualty, good doctors are available.....they will sort it out, etc, etc
Notice that because my confidence is in human beings, and situations, there is very little need for prayer, or reliance and dependence on God.
Instead, my response ought to be:
"When You said, "Seek My face," my heart said to You, "Your face, O LORD, I shall seek." Psalm 27:8
"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." Psalm 20:7
"Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." Jer 17:5-8
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