All that is precious is NOT gold

This week has been overwhelming. It started off with a sick husband, a few sleepless nights being up with my daughter, extremely happy and good news of a friends pregnancy and devastating news of my best friends mom, who has been fighting cancer, getting test results back saying the cancer has progressed. What a whirlwind.

It’s at times like these when I remind myself of the graciousness of my God to me. Two and a half years ago, my doctor said to my family, ” I was dropping down dead waiting to happen” and yet my savior chose in His goodness and kindness to reach down and spare my life. Yes it was through surgery and yes I now live with the consequences of a prosthetic heart valve which requires daily medication and regular blood tests, but I am alive, well and in love with Jesus like never before.

1 Peter 2:9
” But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” I know this is talking of salvation and as I wrote in my post ‘Profound parallels’ the significance of my physical surgery and the process of salvation are so profound and I was indeed called out of the darkness of the sickness I was experiencing and called into his marvellous light….the light of life, freedom and grace.

This was a life-changing experience for me, and it’s the little things-like my perspective on things-which has changed. One of my top love languages is gifts. I love receiving gifts and I love giving gifts and 4 months after my surgery, celebrating my 28th birthday, my husband was asking me what I wanted for my birthday. I replied….’I have all I need, you and our Cianna, I don’t need anything else.’ My husband was shocked. This coming from the Lorryn who would have a list of items she was needing or wanting….hinting for months before her birthday, and always ensuring that her husband had enough time to get to the shops to buy a gift….and now I say I have everything I need. A huge mind-shift for me that all that is precious is not gold!!

And that is so true….material items are wonderful, some are incredible necessary but at the end of the day it’s the people who you love, whose lives you have built into, and who have built into yours that are the real precious things. We cannot take ANYTHING to heaven, except people….So lets make it our mission to ensure they will be there too.