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To one who had just had an operation
The loving Lord rest you now and refresh and strengthen you. I shut the doors of my mind when thoughts came about what the days just after the operation must have been. I can’t bear to think of them. I have never had a major operation in my life but have often nursed those who have had one, so I know what these days can be. I shall not be easy till I hear the next news.
These may be very tired days. It isn’t easy to pick up after such things. But take the resting verses such as Zephaniah 3:17 and John 15:9 (“Continue ye in My love,” abide there, like a child at home) and those psalms and verses in the Gospels which show that side of life. “Return unto thy rest, O my soul” (Ps. 116:7). “Come unto Me and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). “My God shall supply all your need” (Phil. 4:19). There are hundreds such; take them as yours in a special way just now, and don’t tire your spirit and inhibit your recovery by pressing against the limitations which for the present are your fence of feathers. “With His feathers has He made a fence for thee” is a lovely rendering of Psalm 91:4. Nestle under those feathers (He shall cover thee with His feathers), and when you are tempted to press against the fence, remember it is a fence of feathers—soft and downy, and yet strong as the feathers of great birds are.
May those feathers be very comforting to you through these days.
About this Plan
After an accident left her confined to her room in constant pain for the last twenty years of her life, Amy Carmichael penned countless precious letters to her friends. Compiled in the book Candles in the Dark, her letters share her intimate walk with Christ, offering encouragement and hope to those experiencing illness. Let these words of strength and comfort light your path today like candles in the dark.
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