For years I've read a small daily devotional called Our Daily Bread. The contributors are just everyday folks, no recognizable names among them, but I often come away encouraged by the simple parallels drawn to life that I find there.
Today's contributor, Julie Ackerman Link, comes from Michigan and jokes that there are two seasons in her home state: Winter and road construction. She writes that the roads are continually damaged by the harsh winters and the repair and reconstruction begins as soon as the ice melts and the roads thaw. "Although we call this work 'construction', much of what they (the workers) do looks more like 'destruction'. In some cases just patching the hole is not an option. Workers have to replace the whole road with a new one."
I'm applying Mrs. Link's example of reconstruction this morning to how I have been reconstructed through our journey through cancer. Cancer caused the damage to my "road" and paving the way to a new one surely did seem at times like destruction. Just "patching the hole" was not an option. But along with the reconstruction process not only was my body repaired and strengthened, so was my heart and mind.
Soon we will discover whether or not my road has been successfully reconstructed for another season but regardless of the result, I have the Master Contractor by my side and whatever needs reconstructing will be reconstructed perfectly. I have nothing to fear.
"But God isn't destroying anything; He is building a better way. And we can be confident that the end result will be smoother relationships with others and a closer relationship with Him."-Julie Ackerman Link.
Good thoughts to start the day.
"Create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew (reconstruct) a right spirit within me."-Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
On the health front:
Blood draw today with prayers for good results.
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