Faith.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11:1
That’s what I felt as I had the injection pushed into my arm on Friday. Faith.
For the first time medically, I was doing something that didn’t have years and years of evidence behind it. I was taking a leap.
But look at what God brought me through. The pandemic started and I was terrified because I wasn’t sure how this was going to pan out. Being a primary care physician, I am the gateway for so many illness. But God.
My institution immediately protected us—we didn’t have enough PPE, so we immediately went virtual. When we did begin to see patients in person, it was again a transition—were we going to be safe. Daily, doing my due diligence. Changing how I dressed. Changing my shoes. A different protocol for coming home each day. And with God’s help, my family and I have remained uninfected despite some exposure.
My prayer at the beginning of this—“God, get us to a treatment so we are less likely to die or have a bad outcome.” Friday, I sat down to receive the vaccine, because, faith, and science.
When God answers prayers, you don’t sit around and question what’s going to happen in 10 years if you do the thing He delivered. You do it. You leap. What if the Israelites had hesitated before walking across the dry ground of the Red Sea. Similarly, what did happen when they refused to believe God could deliver them the Promised Land? None of them entered it, except the two that gave the good report.
Faith. And overwhelming gratitude.
Thank you for tour leap of faith!! Leading by example and moving forward, trusting God in spite of the fear.
Amen! Your faith to take the vaccine is going to help many of us (particularly people of color) to think and act differently around this vaccine. Thank you so much for writing about it here on your blog.
Thank you for reading!