To Know and Not to Know | Kiersti Giron

You never know what a day will hold.

On a day when you expect to leave on a road trip with friends, you can end up waiting in the emergency room because your grandmother had cardiac arrest.

After thinking she might not take another breath, you can find yourself having a conversation with her the next day—but still not knowing what each new day will bring or what the outcome will be.

While you’re hearing a hospital report from your sister on the phone, your cell phone can suddenly ring and bring news that a wonderful agent wants to represent your book—life’s mingling of happiness and tears.

I still don’t know what the coming days will hold for my family—but then, we never do. Somehow crisis and living day to day in the hospital just make us more aware of it. But I’m trying to remember what I do know:

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. ~Romans 8:28

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. ~Job 19:25

I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. ~I Timothy 1:12b

And what He knows:

“For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” ~Jeremiah 29:11

“I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep… My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.” ~John 10:14-15, 27-28

2 comments on “To Know and Not to Know”

Stephen Hurley says:

August 22, 2012 at 7:50 pm

Be encouraged Kiersti! Sometimes life is like a roller coaster, so much so that your emotions can be jostled into numbness, and good news and bad news all blur together.

But, know that you have an army of Christians praying for your family, to protect you with the peace of Christ and to defend you from the demons that try to take advantage of your weakness in this time. You also have an even greater number of angels in heaven ministering to your family’s needs in a hundred unseen ways.

What I’m trying to say is that you needn’t worry, as God is in control, giving you joys even in your sorrow.

Kiersti says:

August 23, 2012 at 11:53 am

Thank you, Stephen–your empathy and prayers mean so much. Please thank your whole family for the beautiful card you all sent.

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