We’re still trying to figure out Paul’s ‘episodes’ that look like seizures but aren’t. On Tuesday he had an MRI.
These visits never go quite according to plan. We had about a 90 minute delay to get a question answered before they could proceed. And his primary nurse just wasn’t as skilled as she seemed to think she was.
In other words, lots of room for a grumbling heart.
In the middle of our waiting, Dianne mentioned a devotional she had heard based on Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening that had encouraged her. So I pulled out my phone and looked it up. Tuesday’s devotional was on Psalm 84:7 and included this paragraph:
Those with anxious spirits trouble themselves about the future. “Oh!” they say, “we seem to go from affliction to affliction.” Very true, O you of little faith; but don’t forget that you also go from strength to strength. You will never find a bundle of affliction that doesn’t have God’s sufficient grace at the very center.
The desire to fight my sin was re-engaged. And gratitude to God for his Word and for a faithful wife commenced.
The Works of God 
Praying, John and Dianne, that God will give you answers to these spells and will give you a treatment plan–oh that the Lord will have mercy on Paul and you during this advent season.
Thanks so much for sharing this quote. I needed this reminder of God’s sufficient grace today.
I am praying for your family, that the Lord will give the doctors wisdom and knowledge, and that the Lord will help you and Dianne to trust Him even as answers are slow in coming.