There's a song Annie used to sing in her Sunday School class:
"My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do!
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do!
The mountains are His, the rivers are His, the skies are His handiwork too-
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do--FOR YOU!"

So I was singing this to Annie yesterday, and she smiled when I said "For YOU!" She is such a sweetie pie. Anyway, in thinking about Annie's illness, and all the stuff that's happened in the last 8 months, I think God has been trying to train my mind to be more eternally-focused, and less preoccupied with the here and now. I have had to try to trust Him whether or not I understand or agree with what's happening--as if I could change any of it! The comfort here is that one way (here on earth) or another (in heaven), Annie will be healed. This situation is particularly difficult because of her youth, but, in fact, ALL of our bodies get old and die. And when we know Jesus, we know when we get to heaven we'll get a new body.

Sometime last year Annie asked me how Jesus could be in heaven AND in her heart at the same time. Hmm. I explained that Jesus is at the right hand of God according to the Bible, and it's God's Holy Spirit who lives in us and helps us when we trust God to save us from our sin. That's why the Spirit is also called the "Comforter."

Jean

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:1-7