Power to the Powerless

Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles
they shall run and not be weary;they shall walk and not faint.
https://www.bible.com/bible/59/isa.40.28-31.esv

I started a new routine everyday after work after my bike or swim workout – right after taking a shower and while drinking my aeropress “light americano coffee” with an Agave sweetener brewed in 1 minute. This must be before 6pm since the half life of coffee is 6 hours .  Sleep time is always 12midnight.

I started reading other blogs from my followers list and those that I followed and then I also searched for a blog that speaks to my heart and then click  “follow”.  One special person each day from the freshly pressed – it’s not a rule but just something that my heart dictates.  I’m not trying to collect ‘blog followers’, I’m just trying to know the hearts of random people.  So please, if you just tuned in, welcome to my journal and please think that you are special – because you are.  I have no hidden agenda of following you.

Yesterday, I was reading a journal of a recently diagnosed cancer patient.  I had teary eyes while reading as the blog not just described the diagnostic procedure but also exposes the feelings that the person experienced in a micro level detail. I am a cardiac patient and I always asked this question to my wife, would you like cancer or heart problems?  Her answer was always “not cancer” and she explained that “hey, you survived” so I should also survive or at least can get to a cardiac cath lab and survive, with cancer, you know it is always there somewhere in your body. I can’t argue.

Me too, I’d rather not have cancer than any other condition. I can read and feel the emotion that a cancer patient goes through but I can never know how difficult it is to even get passed Day0000000001. They can describe the anger, the frustration, the loneliness, the betrayal but there is something in life that you cannot put into words – how the experience affects you emotionally.  It’s an experience that  sometimes you wish does not happen – but it does sometimes. We can tell the story but deep inside us, it’s an individual survival and it does not matter if we have a family around us.

I wrote a short encouraging note on the blog but I don’t really think it was enough to fuel a spark of hope.  Man can always say nice words and encourages you for a  day or two but how do you encourage someone who lies in the deepest sorrow of life and hopelessness.  What word would you offer?

Today’s daily verse from youversion was the perfect answer.

I don’t want to explain too much.  Read the verse above over and over until it soaks in to your spirit. Pay attention of the word “everlasting God” and “power to the faint”.

Be encouraged.  If life ends here today, think of the “everlasting life” because it never ends.