I was just thinking about health insurance (that's not a normal topic in my head, I've just had a long day, am tired of homework, and it came up as a topic on one of the podcasts I listen to), and I realized that it's just one more of those ways that the real world is going to be a lot different than the government owned, run, and provided military world that I live in now. That is, there will be a point in my life that I won't just be able to walk across to the other side of Bancroft (or even to the clinic on the base down the street) to schedule an appointment for an eye checkup or dental exam whenever I feel like I need it.
Someday, if I get in an accident (likely, given my propensity for falling down and running into things), there may not be free, relatively immediate care for whatever befalls me or my family. That's a bit of an unsettling thought, and very real to me because finding a good source of health insurance is something that my family has been dealing with for the past few months. I'm taken care of by the government, but my parents and brother and sister are on their own in the whole, wide, dangerous world. Eventually, that will be me also. Despair not, though, for the Lord, I'm sure, will lead us to a fine way.
Quote time:
"On a metaphysician: A blind man in a dark room--looking for a black hat--which isn't there."
-Charles Synge C. Bowen
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...Do not be worried about the food and drink you need to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn't life worth more than food? And isn't the body worth more than clothes? Look at the birds flying around: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest, and put it in barns; your Father in heaven takes care of them!
Which one of you can live a few more years by worrying about it? And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do not work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even Solomon, as rich as he was, had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers. It is God who clothes the wild grass--grass that is here today, gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? How little faith you have!
So do not start worrying: 'Where will my food come from? or my drink? or my clothes?' (These are the things the heathen are always concerned about.) Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. Instead, be concerned above everything else with his Kingdom and with what he requires, and he will provide you with all these other things. So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
-- Matthew 6:25-34
Of course, you are right, I know that. It's just that money is a very real concern in our world, and Greg and Jennifer were talking about it as I was working on a little Boats action. I have a strong faith (based on my experiences in life so far) that everything will turn out allright in the end, we just may not see everything there is at the beginning.
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