Illness...

I just got have lunch with one of my Dads today while my mum is over in France (she returns late Tues night). It was delightful. We spent time chatting about many and varied things. He is breeding cockatiel's and budgies at the moment and also hand-rearing some of them. He is just waiting for a couple of babies to get old enough to start hand rearing new ones. Benson (their black Labrador) was also topic of much discussion. He is such a beautiful boy who gets up to lots of amusing and cheeky things. But he is always so cute that he often gets away with murder (of blue-tongues and the like...)

But lunch today also had its sad moments. In case you don't know Dad was diagnosed with leukemia in Jan (although it had probably started 12 months before). I think today was a sad day for him. And therefore a sad day for me too. I guess this follows along the lines of this sinful and broken world that I was thinking about earlier. The toughest thing about the type of leukemia he has is that at this point it is not curable and its progress is hard to predict. It is possible for it to flare up in a month or two and for things to head down hill very quickly or it is also possible that his white cell count will stay fairly stable for the next 20 years. It is just unpredictable.

I guess today I have just been so feeling the pains of this broken world and caused to run to the comfort of my Creator's arms. We don't know why all these things happen. But one thing we can know is the Creator who knows why all these things happen!!!! What a comfort in such a painful world!!