Last week this 73 year old spent seven days in hospital with appendicitis that went very baaad. Perpetual pain, discomfort and sleeplessness.
During it I offered it all up to God for my sins while at the same time asked him for relief ASAP. With so much thinking time at my disposal I wondered if this were not a kind of contradiction.
It is a subject I have never seen debated. Is it enough to offer pain to God in one's mind and then get on with wishing it was all over. It is not like asking God for pain to offer up, but offering up pain you got but didn't want.
Is there something else one can do or say, or think, that is necessary for such an offering. Either way I knew I would have to suffer for some time..
I would appreciate your thoughts.
PS, I am now on the mend, One stone lighter with everyone telling me I'm looking 'great.' God works in strange ways.