Flashback Friday # 8 : Intensive Care

Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi

This is from January 23, 2005, written during a late night prayer time:

Sharon Zink [a guest speaker] talked today about God putting her in 'intensive care' [spiritually] - and I thought about who goes into 'intensive care' and why....

Firstly, generally speaking, someone who is not going to get better, period, is not put into intensive care. No one who has no hope of survival goes into intensive care. Intensive care is for those who either are expected to recover or who stand a chance of recovery. So to be in intensive care is to know that there is hope.

People go into intensive care because:
1) they are very ill. But this is not the usual case... most illnesses are caught before they reach this stage.

2) they have had surgery. Surgery either removes something [that is diseased], corrects or repairs something or replaces something....

3) they have an injury - a serious injury - and are put into intensive care to be watched and evaluated until the immediate danger is over

4) Neonatal intensive care - a baby who's too immature to survive w/o special attention or was born with a life-threatening condition.

There is lots of room for spiritual parallels. In every case, someone goes into intensive care because their survival is threatened.

And, as is typical for my late-night journal entries, this stops abruptly right there. I didn't try to focus on the spiritual significance of that...maybe it is time to go back and consider some of those things, and remember that God cares deeply about our spiritual condition and will put us in intensive care. There's a lot more that could be written here -- how do you recognize being in intensive care, what can you expect in intensive care, things like that.

Hm. Lots of room to develop that theme.