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God Works Thru Music

My wife got an unfortunate diagnosis this week. Ulcerative colitis. This is diagnosed by a colonoscopy. She's had several. After the conscious sedation wears off, you shouldn't feel any different than before the procedure. So, five hours after the procedure when she had a temp of 101.8 and had body aches and increased abdominal pain... I immediately started thinking of worst case scenarios. I had already imagined going to the ER, notifying the surgeon of my choice to do the emergent peritoneal lavage and hemi-colectomy. All this after a very long health care stressful day. Trusting God in this setting is very difficult for me. "She's been through so much. God, you delivered her from all this bad health, why let it start all over again?" This time, I had some experience of God's faithfulness and goodness to fall back on. I believed in my head that he was good all the time, faithful all the time, will provide all the time, etc. But I still was an anxious mes