God's Calling

The food sculpture challenge continues. My recuperating Mom's breakfast yesterday was a bagel and pear fox. Or kitty. Or Carolina Dog. Great art lets you see whatever fills your heart.

Lunch was a wishful thinking butterfly. Spring must be just around the corner. Surely this streak of negative and single digit temperatures cannot go on forever...can it?

It feels like it could. Sometimes just when things seem to be getting better, they get worse. Mom is doing great. If she continues at this pace, I should be able to return to the sane and warm south in 4 or 5 days. Then....

Last night I heard my mom call me. I thought I heard her say, "I need help."
I sprang to my feet, interrupting a great dream about my favorite rescue farm, Hollow Creek Farm. I raced into Mom's room. She was peacefully asleep. I went back to bed but felt unsettled. I thought she spoke again. I got up again. Nope. She was asleep. I noticed Dad wasn't in bed. He often watches TV late at night when he can't sleep. So I went downstairs. He wasn't in the TV room. I went into his office. He was at his desk looking sweaty and worried.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"No," he told me, "I'm sweating and weak...I've never felt this way. My blood sugar is quite low." He is diabetic.

My daughter has a diabetic friend and I had to learn a lot about her care since I took her with us often on overnight trips. I knew that getting sugar in her fast was critical when her blood sugar caused symptoms like Dad's. So I ran upstairs, got him  chocolate and juice. Quick sugar! He ate and drank, and felt better almost instantly. Then as his fogginess cleared, he asked me to get his glucose tablet. He had called his diabetes hotline and was awaiting a call back, but upon retesting his sugar, all was well.

So who called me at 2 a.m., awakening me from a dream, and compelling me to hurry down to help my dad? I will let you make the obvious conclusion.

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Exodus 3:1-22 

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...

Proverbs 1:24-26 

Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

Isaiah 53:1-12 

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. ...