So, for awhile now, I've been planning to go up to NYC in August to see a friend. We settled on dates- going to be there this whole week working and then hanging out in the evenings. However, as the date has gotten closer, the plans have gotten murkier and more up in the air. I wasn't able to get official approval from work until the last minute. Then, over the weekend it was hard to communicate and lay down a final plan for Monday. Finally, Sunday night, Liz and I had no peace about going on Monday and we just decided to wait and plan to come on next Friday to spend a long weekend. Then, I found out why God had given us no peace and made it hard for us to come.
Monday, my friend found out that a mutual friend in NYC had been diagnosed with HIV and Hep C from a needle stabbed into him a couple months ago while handling a crazed heroin addict patient (he's a doctor). That was terrible news and my friend had a lot of stress helping him and dealing with that Monday. Then, on Tuesday, my friend's mom had a partial stroke in northern VA and that really threw everything up in the air as far as whether he would even be staying in NYC or not. So, I think its been horribly stressful the last couple days up there and his plans are greatly in flux and it would have just been complicated and more stress to add to have us there.
I'm not thankful for the things that took place, but I'm thankful that God in His wisdom gave us a non-peace about going and now we see why that was.
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