It is 9PM and Rob and Taylor are on their way to the hospital once more. Problems began around 6:30PM. Their normal doc is out of town and the one they have been told to call said to come on in.

If you have the Streams in the Desert devotional, the July 15 entry is most appropriate for tonight – ( I “accidentally” read the wrong day.) If you don’t have it, the verse is, “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

This is the third time my children have driven the over an hour drive to Hopkins in almost as many weeks. Each time they go, I relive the Friday night Rob was out of town and the docs wanted to take Little One.

The devotional goes on…..“To trust in spite of the look of being forsaken; to keep crying out into the vast, whence comes no returning voice, and where seems no hearing; to see the machinery of the world pauselessly grinding on as if self-moved, caring for no life, nor shifting a hairbreadth for all entreaty, and yet believe that God is awake and utterly loving; to desire nothing but what comes meant for us from His hand; to wait patiently, ready to die of hunger, fearing only lest faith should fail – such is the victory that overcometh the world, such is faith indeed.”

My prayer is that our Lord might give us all that kind of faith…that kind of trust….


They cried to You and were saved; in You they trusted and were not disappointed.