Day 55 and my dermatologist confirms my intentional following of Jesus

Day 55 and it began with a visit to my dermatologist! Ouch ...dry ice stings.
He burned 6 things off my head and prescribed for me 6 weeks of my head breaking out in bright red blotches as we try to find more things to burn off. Yep - truly a tomato head for a few weeks.

Now I'm young to have all this done .......but ....if I keep being diligent then in later life I won't have to half my ear or nose cut off!! In fact, he told me that some people can ignore the little lumps of precancer growths because its either too much of a nuisance or too little a lump and 10 years later they need to have huge lumps cut off!!

We both agree there was a biblical analogy there about something called 'sin'.

But as look forward to 6 weeks of blotchiness it got me thinking about my intentional follow of today - I am staying/living where God wants me.

Forget the fact that I don't like small towns; forget the fact that it gets way too hot here; forget the fact that I'm 6000 miles from home; forget the fact that I carry a green card and it tells me I am an 'alien' ........my color of skin, my blue eyes, my freckles should force me to leave!! I am a firm candidate for further skin issues and surgery. People my shade should not live here.

But - God has us here.

I've tried to leave.
I've had opportunity to leave.

But intentional follow - I want to be where God wants me to be. Even although I have a more fluid theology of how God might lead and the role of choice in it ....I believe in feeling His presence and knowing this is where God wants you.

So today's visit to my dermatologist reminded me that I live here only because I'm following Jesus.