Facing uncertainty can make us feel, well, uncertain!

I remember in 2006 when I was being wheeled into the operating room for emergency open heart surgery.

The two most important arteries in my heart were blocked 95% right at their junction point.

The doctor wa nervous about the operation, knowing there was chance for failure.

However, I was meditating on Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want….

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”

Then this thought came to my mind: “This is a win-win situation!

If I die I go  to be with the Lord; if I live, I get to stay with my family!”

I had no anxiety, no fear, just a deep, quiet, happy peace, a gift of God delivered through faith.

Tomorrow i face another, less serious heart procedure: the insertion of a filter in my heart

to prevent clots from my A-fib condition going to my brain, causing a stroke.

There is always the dhance of something going wrong,

But “The Lord is my Shepherd!” Again I can relax in His care.

Knowing all is in His hands, whether it be death or life,

and His gifts come:  peace, joy, rest.