{"id":4461,"date":"2023-03-07T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:31:14","slug":"how-to-connect-riveting-strength-40-watt-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-to-connect-riveting-strength-40-watt-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How to connect riveting strength to a 40-watt life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How about nuclear strength for the 40-watt moments in your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Strength
Extra strength for our heaviest problems\/Vicky Sim\/Unsplash<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grab this life saver for extra strength whenever needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Strength for pain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Recently, I stumbled across nine words a woman used to survive a mastectomy without anesthesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy Thurston was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1855.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since she struggled with an earlier bout of paralysis, the doctor performed surgery without chloroform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy survived and lived another twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her letter to her daughter details the night before the terrifying procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That night I spent in the house alone for the first time. The family had all retired for the night. In the still hour of darkness, I long walked back and forth in the capacious door-yard. Depraved, diseased, helpless, I yielded myself up entirely to the will, the wisdom, and the strength of the Holy One. At peace with myself, with earth, and with heaven, I calmly laid my head upon my pillow and slept refreshingly. A bright day opened upon us. My feelings were natural, cheerful, elevated. I took the Lord at his own word: ‘As the day is, so shall thy strength be.<\/em>‘ There with an unwavering heart, I leaned for strength and support.”<\/strong> Lucy Thurston in Letters of Note<\/em>\/Shaun Usher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

God stabilized her spirit the night before the two hour surgery with only nine words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the day is, so shall thy strength be.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The verse she quoted from is Deuteronomy 33:25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.”<\/strong> NIV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I like the King James Version. “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same God who directs the laws of physics gives strength equal to our days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n