“Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the music” . Perhaps some of you might be able to hum along to the chorus of this old song by Three Dog Night. Today I am celebrating since I had my last amalgam filling removed and replaced by a fancy high tech ceramic filling!
Yesterday, I talked about my reluctance to ask for help even from my doctor. But today as I sat in the dentist’s chair, I knew that without a doubt I had been receiving help these past months so that I can actually say I no longer have my neurotic fear of having dental work done! All of the past experiences as a child sitting in the dental chair are over! Part of that change belongs to my dentist who calls himself an old hippy! I learned to relax as he chatted, laughed and as we listened to old 60’s and 70’s music interspersed with the occasional Norah Jones. But I have had pleasant dentists before, and so I know that my change mainly belongs to God who heard my prayers and heard others praying for me that since I needed to see this dentist every month for a year, could He please “help me overcome my anxieties”. Yesterday my special friend who keeps lifting me up to God sent me some very appropriate Bible verses in response to yesterday’s blog. I think she wanted me to remember as my husband did who read it this morning – that even when we are reluctant to receive help from others and even when we receive imperfect help from others, we can receive perfect help from God. She wrote,
“Your ‘cry for help’ was heard. I immediately recalled that help is always available but not necessarily immediately visible. Psalm 18:6: “In my distress, I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help” and in Psalm 121:1 : “I lift up my eyes to the hills–where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth”. Verse 8 says ‘the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” It does not say He will remove your affliction but will ‘BE THERE’ for you. I agree that sometimes it does not feel like it is enough but like the mother who holds her child with the scraped knee, she cannot make it better but she can ‘be there’ to help him get through the pain. Hopefully, this is what can keep you going as well. Hang in there…you are not alone.”
Well, today I am not only celebrating the fact that my dental work is complete but that I believe “My help comes from the Lord”! Now I just have to remember that “the Lord will watch over (my) coming and going” when His Help doesn’t seem quite as clear!!
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