He Knows My Name

Fair Lady

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, 

and all her paths are peace.  

Proverbs 3:17

Dawn of the Day

Cause me to hear 

Your loving-kindness in the morning, 

for on You do I lean 

and in You do I trust. 

Cause me to know 

the way wherein I should walk, 

for I lift up my inner self to You.  

Psalm 143:8

I am a morning person.  I love to get up with the sunrise and spend quite time alone 

with the Lord and preparing for my day.  It wasn’t until recently that it dawned 

on me how perfectly my middle name, Dawn, fits me.  🙂

Shortly after we moved to Florida, just a few days before

my birthday, I had an accident where I 

very stupidly opened a pressure cooker to see if 

the corn on the cob I was cooking was done.

The steaming hot water exploded up and caused second

degree burns on my right arm and shoulder.  

An angel’s wing protected my face.

I ran to the bath tub and tried to put my arm

under some cool running water where my 

melted skin looked like it was going to wash right off.  

I cried uncontrollably from the pain all the way to the ER.

On the way home, I looked up and noticed that just 

a couple of blocks from our house was a street named “Jennifer.”

The Lord spoke to me that each time I saw that sign I was

to remember that He knew my name.  🙂
I purposely chose to drive that direction many times.

The spring before, I had looked up the meaning 

of my name and chose the verses above to go with it.  

Both verses speak about being led by Wisdom.  

I so need, love, and deeply desire Wisdom (Jesus).

The moment I became a mom I realized how destitute I was 

without God’s Wisdom and have since continually prayed for Wisdom.  

God has been so faithful to give us words of Wisdom 

and to lead us though open and closed doors during this recent trial.  

Yesterday, I started from scratch looking for a 

surgeon here in Huntsville.  I’ve liked all the doctors we’ve met so far,

but didn’t feel like we had the right one.  I had on my heart one 

person I felt like I was supposed to call for a recommendation.

I left her a message on Saturday and was waiting for a return call.

One thing about being a morning person is that by the time most people are 

up and moving around, I’ve already been up and waiting to talk to them for hours. 🙂

Eight O’clock, Nine O’clock, Ten O’clock went by.  I finally called the only breast

surgeon here in town to see if I could get an appointment with him.  

He’s taking time off for the next several weeks and doesn’t 

have any appointments until April (closed door).

His nurse gave me a name of someone else I might try.  I called to make and

appointment with him but didn’t feel peace about it and was starting to 

wonder if I should just go with one of the surgeons I had already met (no peace).

A good friend came over to visit that afternoon.  I so needed the distraction 

and we both enjoyed the time of fellowship and refreshment.

Just a few minutes after she left, the one lady who I felt like I was

supposed to get a recommendation from called.  I can’t tell you the whole 

story because I could get her in trouble, but she told me who she would go to.

And after talking to her, I knew that God had given me favor and I had found my surgeon.

By this time, it was pretty late in the day, so I didn’t waste anytime in 

 trying to get an appointment.  I told his receptionist my situation

and asked if he had any appointments.  She said he might have one opening up 

this Wednesday, but she had to make a phone call to see 

if she could work it out for me and call me back.

If I had called that morning for an appointment, she would have told me that 

they didn’t have any openings until March 22nd.  The whole day I was 

impatiently waiting for a recommendation and struggling over who I should see, 

God was working on my behalf to open up an appointment for me. 🙂

He is so GOOD!

I will be seeing Dr. Harriman and the nutritionalist, who didn’t have any 

appointments until April, tomorrow.  🙂

Pray that I will have favor with Dr. Harriman and he will agree to do the 

lumpectomy only as a first and prayerfully last step and that my appointment

with the nutritionalist will also be filled with wisdom and peace.    

Isaiah 43:

1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob,
         And He who formed you, O Israel,
         “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
         I have called you by name; you are Mine!
    2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
         And through the rivers, they will not overflow you
         When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,
         Nor will the flame burn you.

Love,

Jenny