An Ordinary Life, an Extraordinary God
Is Anybody Really Listening?
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Thursday, January 31, started as a crisp beautiful morning. Cherie was off that day, but I was scheduled to work the day shift in Respiratory. As I drove to Menorah in the dark, early hours from our townhouse in Independence, I was confident the long trek would be one of my last and I was amazed at God's grace. Tomorrow, I thought, it is really going to happen. We are going to sign the papers as owners of our first house.
I worked at dismissing my financial concerns. We were still unsure of just how we were going to make the house payments, especially in the spring when Cherie would have to quit work at the birth of our next child. Every way I counted our money, I just couldn't figure out where that first house payment would come from.
However, we were more confident than ever that while we didn't know, God did and since He gave us the house, He would somehow provide the means.
It was early in the afternoon when I heard my name paged. I was completing my second round, having just given a treatment to a patient on the third floor and was heading towards the elevators. I turned and wheeled my cart next to the nurses' station on 3 East to take the call. Reaching over the counter, I grabbed the phone. It was Cherie.
She was upset. I listened, confused and shocked to my beloved's frantic words before finally exclaiming in loud disbelief, "What do you mean they found two bodies in our basement?"
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About the Book
Do you ever wonder, somewhere deep in your heart, if all those things the nuns or your Sunday school teacher taught you are really true? Does doubt ever taunt you, whispering in the silence, “I just don’t believe all that stuff anymore …”? Do you hold close the unspoken worry of what will really happen to you when you die?
It is easy to feel God in the flowers of spring, the solitude of a world blanketed in snow, or the laughter of children at play. It is never hard to imagine the hand of our Creator in the sunrise over the ocean, the majesty of the Rockies, or the billions of stars visible on a clear night in the country.
What of the dark times, though? Where is God when your business fails, or you lose your job, or a loved one is injured in an accident or diagnosed with cancer and dies? Is God there when you struggle to make ends meet, when your child is hurt in a fall or, when you think yourself alone and abandoned?
When Jesus said, “With God all things are possible,” He meant it. We pray that by sharing our ordinary lives, our extraordinary God will bless and encourage you.
About the Author
Cherie and Paul Hale were married at eighteen, parents at nineteen, and born again at twenty; they have seen all nine of their children attend college. They credit the success of their forty-two year marriage and their family—which now numbers thirty—entirely to God’s grace and mercy. They currently live in Atlanta.