The Works of God

On Tuesday Dianne and I concluded our talks on God’s goodness to us through disease and disability to the MOMS Group (Making Our Mothering Significant) at Bethlehem’s three campuses.

I learned a few things in this process.

1. I really, really appreciate my wife (ok, I didn’t learn that one – I already appreciated her!).  We’ve never done anything like this together and I enjoyed doing this with her.
2. It is good to remember what God has already done for us.  And very personally encouraging.
3. Dianne tells our story differently than I tell it, and it seems to land on people with a different kind of power and evidence of God’s goodness.  I liked that.
4. I love my church (ok, I knew that one as well.  But being at the north campus with those sisters in faith was just incredibly great!).
5. Disability really is foreign (and scary) to some people.  It used to be foreign to me, so that should be obvious.  But I forget that.
6. Christian hedonists don’t need to know much about disability to ‘get it’ that God is sovereign over disability.  That’s refreshing.
7. We must keep telling our stories about God’s goodness in disability, and point out how God talks about disability and his sovereignty in his Word.  This particular aspect of God’s sovereignty – that he is both sovereign and good in disability – is worth visiting over and over again.

Thank you, MOMS, for letting us be with you!