\u201cThis will only last for twenty-five minutes\u201d said the technician last Friday, as if that would comfort me.\u00a0\u00a0I was about to endure my first nuclear stress test, and I had not slept much the night before.\u00a0\u00a0In addition, I had not been allowed to eat for twelve hours.\u00a0\u00a0Part of me was proud that I had made it into my eighties before needing this, and part of me was as nervous as I was when I was seven years old and waiting to have my tonsils removed.\u00a0\u00a0The scan itself was not at all bad.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, lying on my back, on the table, for twenty-five minutes was worse on my lower back, than any other discomfort, physical or emotional.\u00a0\u00a0Less than forty-eight hours earlier, in reading my one-Bible-chapter-per-day, with my online Bible reading group, I had read, from Isaiah 46:4, \u201cEven to your old age, I am He and even to gray hairs I will carry you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I will not know the results of this test until after this Manna is posted on Monday morning, but it doesn\u2019t really matter – Surgery? Medication? Fitness program? Diet restrictions? Life-style changes?\u00a0\u00a0The same God who carried me though a seven-year-old tonsillectomy, has promised to carry me through gray-headed medical issues. Bill Gaither wrote it – \u201cThe longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.\u201d<\/p>\n
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