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Lemonade

by Jerry Ousley  
5/19/2007 / Christian Living


When I awoke my bed was surrounded by doctors and nurses with unending questions. I had become ill while in the US Army basic training program. With only two weeks of training left, during a very critical period of field testing, I had bled heavily from my rectum. I tried to shake it off but after that I couldn't complete a two mile run because it seemed all my strength and breath just left me.

I had complained to the drill sergeant who had told me that I could go on sick call but also told me that if I missed any of this training it would have to be made up. Anyone who has experienced basic will tell you that all you want to do during that period of time is to get it done and move on to the next step. These were my feelings and so I tried to push on. But my body wouldn't allow it.

A week later I found myself giving in and signing up for sick call. Thinking it was the flu (after this particular bivouac probably a third of our platoon came down with the flu), I was checked in to the hospital and took some blood tests, as well as a host of other tests, and afterwards I was so tired that all I wanted to do was sleep. Even though I was placed in a ward with eight or ten other soldiers who wanted to talk and play board games, I had no trouble at all drifting off into the world of slumber.

The next thing I knew the doctor was shaking me and asking questions at the same time. When I looked around and saw all the other doctors and nurses gathered around my bed I knew something wasn't right. This was no typical flu bug.

What had happened when I had experienced the bleeding about a week before, according to the doctor, was that I had lost almost half of the blood in my body which explained my sudden loss of energy. After more testing the prognosis was that I had developed a peptic ulcer. The main concern however, was not the ulcer but re-building my blood supply.

It would take several weeks and to my horror meant that I would have to make up those last two weeks of training after all. Seven weeks later I was back into a unit to finish my training and, to make a long story short, arrived five weeks late to my AIT unit. Most of the people I had been in basic with were already very close to finishing. It was a trying time emotionally for me. I questioned God "Why?"

Since this incident I have taught others that God has a way of taking life's lemons and squeezing them into lemonade. You see, even though this seemed to be a very traumatic set-back, it proved to be to my advantage. Almost every soldier that I would have graduated basic with was assigned to Korea - which was not the most desirable place for a young man who wanted to take his family with him when assigned to a duty. But because of my delay with the ulcer, when it came time for my assignment a few weeks later, I was stationed in Washington, DC.

God does that for those who have committed themselves to Him. Many of you can recite similar incidents that perhaps you had passed off as mere coincidence. But God has a plan for us and in His love and mercy, will make lemonade out of those lemons when we put our trust in Him. Regardless of your situation, whether your troubles are financial, physical, marital, or emotional, put your trust in God and look to Him during this time of need, pain, and frustration. He will see us through it and He will give us that lemonade!

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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