There are days that you meet people that just challenge and inspire you to grow. I met one of these people last week. The surgery team was here last week, I got called in to help with a consult. They wanted a patient to get a ct scan. Since there is not a ct machine in our area, they asked if I could coordinate and get this for him. I had a contact call around and find a working ct machine in Port au Prince and we sent the patient on the bus to go to Port at Prince for his scan.
When he got to Port au Prince, the place that we sent him to for a scan, their machine was down. So they ended up going all over Port au Prince until they found a working ct scan. They got the scan and the patient then took a 10 hour bus ride back to our town.
The patient got back late that night, so we made him a bed and the doctor said he would look at the scan and talk to him in the morning. That morning, I went with the doctor to talk to this patient. One of my friends was his niece and she was with him. The doctor kindly and gently explained to the man that he had cancer and it was very advanced, too advanced for surgery. His niece, who was beside me started to cry and I looked at the man and he was not sad. The doctor asked if he understood what he had told him and the man said yes. But why would I be sad, God is with me. He thanked the doctor for finally giving him an answer, he had been having pain so long and he did not know what it was, so he was happy for an answer. He went on to say, that God is with me, God can do what He wants, that he had no reason to be sad, when he knew that God has a plan for him and wont leave him.
He took his niece and would not let her cry anymore, because God has a plan and will take care of them. It was just one of those moments, that I felt blessed to witness. But more than that, it has challenged my heart, and inspired me about what I think about God. The faith of his man has challenged me to dig deeper into the Word and get to know my God better, so that when bad news comes, the first thing that comes to my mind is that God is good and has a plan for me.
