It has been a few weeks since I posted last and it feels like that my life has twirled right out of control. I am still trying to grasp and process what has happened. I am not in the place to even begin writing or sharing yet, though that time will come. Right now, I am taking one step at a time.
That was Yah’s direction that fateful day when I sat there shocked, practically numb in the ER at Mercy hospital in Springfield. Clearly I heard in my heart: “take one step at a time.”
It wasn’t one day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time. One step at a time had no time limits, no boundaries, no restrictions. Some steps took seconds. Others took days.
In those instructions, I knew instinctively that with that one step at a time I would also be in the present, soaking up every moment with my unconscious husband. He couldn’t speak, move, or respond, but I would be spending every moment with him.
One step at a time meant that I would keep him abreast of the day’s events, update him on how he arrived, and share with him my deepest thoughts. It may have been one-sided verbally, but Yahweh assured me, he could hear me. I saw the signs when the vital signs monitor would change.
If his heart rate went up, I told him where it was and ask him to bring it down. Seconds later, it would decrease. The same happened with his blood pressure. It didn’t matter which vital spiked or dropped, it would come back to a harmonious state (for the circumstances, of course). If the oxygen saturation dipped, it would slowly rise. Everything was one step at a time.
Those three (3) days in the hospital were spent well, and my husband and I spent much of it together. Sleeping in a chair beside him, holding his left hand, caressing his forehead, these all swirled together as memories and moments all because I took one step at a time.
Looking back, I can see how Yahweh shielded me from worry, anxiety, fear, all because I obeyed when He spoke to my heart: take one step at a time.
I don’t know what’s happening in your life, but I do know that Yahweh is aware of every detail. Trust Him and take one step at a time.
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