Lesson Learned: Check

by Guest Author Mike Dellosso

Mother Theresa once said, “You’ll never realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you got.”

How true! Life gets busy, the appointment book fills up, plans are made, schedules set, gotta go here, go there, do this, meet them. We got it; we can handle it. There’s lots in life to fill up the time, take our minds off Jesus, and put the focus on ourselves, our lives, our ambitions.

Believe me; I know. Been there, done that, still struggling with it.

But what happens when all that is stripped away? When plans are changed for you, schedules canceled, and you’re lying in a hospital bed with nothing to do, no one to see, no pressing appointment to keep. Your ambitions are shot, plans are up in the air. You feel weak, vulnerable, scared, uncertain, and uncomfortable. What happens then?

You realize Jesus is all you got, that’s what. You no longer have your plans to fall back on, your schedule to prop you up, your routine to comfort you. You have nothing but Jesus.

As this whole cancer thing goes on I’m realizing more and more some of the purpose behind it. Little by little, as if God is opening one of those Roman blinds turn by turn and letting the light in bit by bit, I’m seeing some of His reasons for allowing me to go through this valley.

I’ll say this, the valley is a fertile classroom . . . if one is willing to pay attention and learn.

I’m trying my best.