Zoe got her shots yesterday. I have to clarify, my parents did not immunize me nor my 5 siblings until we were much older and due to that I was fearful of immunizing my daugher. FEAR...not right in the heart of a child of God. It's funny how the way that you were raised affects your life. No matter how much we change or how far away we get from our childhood we still are so affected. I see it in my marriage. We call it the cool whip debate...which is healthier cool whip or real whipped cream? Well I would say the "real thang" but my husband (who lost his grandfather when he was only 2 to a massive heart attack) was raised to eat "fat free" (even though my side of the debate is that it is loaded with chemicals ie. how I was raised). My experience with cool whip? nil...well that's not true...Mamah had it and oh I was in heaven sneaking finger fulls of it straight out of the freezer. Yeah...how we are raised definately affects us. Ignorance is bliss...if I didn't know cool whip was loaded with chemicals I might enjoy it and if I hadn't grown up hearing about all the dangers of immunizing maybe I wouldn't have been so fearful for the past 2 months of my daughter's life, absolutely fearing the worst to come out of her 2 month check-up. There is truth to the dangers (we totally researched it-only led to more fear), there are dangers either way. In the end, it is really just a choice, not whether or not to immunize but whether or not to trust; a matter of obedience.
Listen to these verses I was on the trail of this morning: John 14:1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me [Jesus]," John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. DO NOT LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NOR LET IT BE FEARFUL." And again in John 16:33 "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."
There you have it in black and white. So now, as the little precious one He has given us sleeps, I say to myself "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Thankfully we can change and make new a new course for ourselves...a course of peace and not of fear. Not because this world affords it, or that we can create it, but because He, Jesus, said it. DON'T BE AFRAID.
PEACE.
About Me
- Maggie
- Lover of authentic conversations about life and God and things like that (especially with my soul-mate Jeremy). Probably a little too intense at times. So appreciate the friends that love me for who I am and make me better just by who they are. Lives for the kind of laugh that make tears roll down my cheeks and not to mention a good cry now and then. Seeker of Truth and the Person behind it. Loves biographies. True stories are my favorite! Big fan of being outside (with my little ones of course). Love planting things and tending them, like words in children or flowers in gardens.
2 comments:
Perfect LOVE casts out all fear!!! Fear is normal, it is a part of the human condition, but we as Christians are commanded not to live in fear because of what HE has already done, finished, comquered and completed!!! THat is the trick, the key if you will, to not live in fear, but to give our fears up to HIM, to lay them at HIS feet, to place them on HIS altar and know that none of them are greater than HE. That takes practice, discipline, each other, FAITH and most importantly HIS GRACE! AMEN and thank you for writing Maggie, your words are powerful, loving, real, and humble. Keep it up!!!
Hubbie
Perfect words, Maggie.
As we have just discovered, Conor is autistic. One of the biggest arguments out there against immunizations is mercury poisoning: that the MMR immunization is suspect as a culprit for autism.
Well, guess what? Even if I had known that before I immunized Conor, I still would have discounted it and said, "Oh, give me a break. What are the chances?" and I would have immunized him, anyway.
God has the ultimate plan. If his autism was caused by the MMR, what difference does that make? This was a gift from God. Of course, I still struggle right now with accepting His plan in all this, but I know that His plan is not mine to know.
Have peace and know that God is in control. God is good ALL of the time... ALL of the time God is good!
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:7
This precious treasure - this light and power that now shine within us - is held in perishable containers, in our weak bodies. So everyone can see that our glorious power is from God and not our own.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
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