When Riding in an Ambulance

This week was insane. Work is really ramping up, and so are my requirements outside of work. I somehow managed to completely book events for myself Monday-Sunday, with no. breaks. Who does that?! Crazy people, that's who. I can't even think my thoughts or feel my feelings, because everyone else's are all up on me.

Monday, my plans drastically changed form attending Perspectives to taking my mom to the ER. I know. Totally nuts. She really hurt her back and was immobile. My dad and I could not comfortably get her in the car to drive her ourselves, so we had to call 911 for an ambulance. It was stressful, because it wasn't a really immediate emergency... but we really needed that gurney! Within a few minutes, the ambulance, fire truck, EMT's and Firemen were all in my parent's living room. I ring checked every last one of those men, but I was too stressed to attempt to get one of them to notice me. Whoops.

My dad and I rode separately from mom, in my car. Little did I know, she was chatting those EMT's up for me, telling them all that I was single. Oh Lordy.

But here's where the humor turns into God's glorious grace and majesty- the EMT student, whose name is Lawson, was speaking with a slight accent. My mom asked him where he was from, and he nonchalantly replies, "I'm from Kenya." My mom gasped and told him, "My daughter is about to move there! What part of Kenya are you from?!"

It turns out that Lawson is from Nairobi, and has heard about Naomi's Village. He tells my mom to relay this message to me: "Tell her that she is doing a great thing for Kenya."

What. Is. Happening? In the same moments that I'm cracking jokes and remaining calm on the outside- only to be a complete mess inwardly, thinking about my parents and their health and how I won't be here to help if they need me- God shows His confirmation of my going to Kenya to my mom as she is on an ambulance driving to the Emergency Room. How amazing is our God?

O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[b]

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under his feet,

all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8