DAILY DEVOT IONAL 24
Ms. Virgil Anne Williams
Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. - Psalm 23:6 (NLT)
ANGELS IN THE OPERATING ROOM WRITTEN
My doctor had felt a lump in my breast and had ordered a biopsy as my mom and younger sister had had breast cancer. The results came in and my doctor said, I too had breast cancer. He wanted me to have further testing to ensure my lymph nodes were unaffected. The 23rd Psalm states, that when we are uncertain or anxious the Good Shepherd provides all, we need.
The evening before my second procedure, I prayed for angels, something I had never done before. I prayed that the team responsible for cleaning and sanitizing the operating room would be covered by angels. I prayed that the anesthesiologist, the nurses, and my surgeon, would be covered by angels. I prayed that everybody in the operating room would be covered by angels. When we think we are walking alone, the Good Shepherd is always walking beside us.
My daughter, Stephanie took me to the hospital. We had been told that the procedure would take about 45 minutes. Three hours later she still had no news of what was happening. I was unconscious so I had no idea what was happening to me in the OR. My surgery was scheduled for 6:00 am and that was a blessing because all the doctors that I would need were in the hospital doing their morning rounds before they went to their private practices. I was injected with a blue dye, which was iodine-based, and I am allergic to iodine. My doctor told me my reaction was immediate. I went into a severe anaphylactic shock; all my organs were shutting down. In the presence of my enemy the Good Shepherd was preparing a feast for me, and He honored me with a blessing of oil. A heart specialist was there, a pulmonologist was there, a kidney specialist and a liver specialist were there. Every doctor that I needed was there. When I awakened three days later, I was on life support, my sisters were standing around my hospital bed reassuring me that I was fine, and they had come to be supportive of Stephanie. The same-day procedure stretched into nine days and doctor after doctor came to my bedside to see the miracle woman. My surgeon came and said, “I do not know why you are still alive; it is nothing that I did that saved you, there was a presence in the operating room,” and I smiled and told him I had prayed for angels. He said, “They were there.”
Dear Lord, I praise you and thank you that in May 2025 it will be 20 years since that happened; surely your goodness and mercy had me covered, even until this day. Amen.