When All We Can Do Is the Best We Can Do

Today I walked into Cade Calvert's room at Dell Children's Hospital. He is just a little boy—Stanton and Ann's grandson. He was in a bad wreck on October 8. The surgeons had to get bone fragments out of his brain. His little head has stitches wandering down the right side. He is just a little boy, precious and good.

As I talked to his mom, all I could say was that it was horrible for such a thing to happen to her son and that our church would be praying for Cade. Her response to our offer to pray for her son was to thank us for ministering to their son and family through prayer.

We have nothing else we can do. We can feel so powerless standing in a pediatric ICU room. We often express our powerlessness with a frustrated, "Well, we will pray for you."

Really…all we can do is walk into the throne room of our Father, the Master of Heaven and Earth with our Friend and Brother Jesus at His side and pour out our honest desires, wants and longings with the Holy Spirit speaking even more clearly the things we don't even have words for. That's all. And we do that believing that God will always act for the good of those who love him, even through dreadful stuff. That's all.

We should never apologize for doing the very thing we should do first and always, even when it is what we can do "only." Jesus cleansed a temple so that it could become a house of prayer for the nations. We believe he has cleaned us up, so we can be houses of prayer, too. May the heart of Austin be a praying heart.

God, bless Cade. Help him heal perfectly. Bless his family. Bless the others who were in the wreck. And bless us all as we pray our way through this life. In the name of Jesus. Amen.