My plans after school started were to be available for His leading, day by day, each moment as a new adventure in retirement from teaching Kindergarten. My plans? Let’s say to conform to His plans as well as His leading! Two weeks after school was in session, I became quite ill with flu symptoms. After a week, the fever/abdominal pain getting worse, we headed to the ER in Cortez. There they discovered a lodged 13 mm kidney stone and inflamed kidney. The next 44 days required several trips to Durango where I could be treated.
But why so long? Everything I read from His Word. Every devotional. A visit. The Holy Spirit used these to teach me, the teacher, and build up my faith in our loving Lord. His plans. His appointment. His grace to gently accept and delight in His plan and His timing!
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.” Romans 1:16. To every nurse, doctor, and technician who asked, “What do you do among the Navajo?” I’m so glad you asked! —Susan Price
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