Never Giving Up

There's something voyeuristic about reading other's blogs but sometimes it's plain inspirational. Blogs are so public and open and yet so inspirational. I've been reading the blog called "Hope for Wennie Hong" It seems like a 19 year old has had life go to the edge and her friends and family have all been there for her. But what a journey. (recorded here)

I was also looking over a BBC news item where a baby was dying from kidney failure. She was so small that none of the standard technology was able to do anything. Her doctor, Malcolm Coulthard, designed and built her a dialysis machine from scratch in his garage. It worked and two years later she is still alive and kicking and the DIY machine is still used! Coulthard wasn't satisfied that there was nothing available to help.

There is something about life that requires that we never give up. Hope is required for life. Hope for Wennie Hong, a young woman, who has a long way to go for recovery. Hope that drove a doctor to build a machine in his garage (I suspect without the permission of the hospital administration!) A dear friend is very sick, not immediately terminal but the slightly longer term prognosis isn't good. Sometimes all we can have is hope. Hope in a God who loves and cares so much. Hope in a God who will intervene. Hope in doctors who won't give up, who might have made a misdiagnosis.

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:18-22