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John 14:2
Good News Translation
2 There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to
prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.
My oncologist instructed me to go and get vaccinated for COVID-19
before coming back to see him. I went to our Riverside County website to sign
up for a vaccination. There I found four forms I had to fill out in order to
request an appointment. Without an appointment it was impossible to get the
vaccination. The county had just opened more appointments. I picked a site and started
to quickly fille out the four forms. Before I got to the second form, I got the
message: “Error due to the rate of applications.” I groaned and started again.
This time the same thing happened.
I picked another site and started again. This time I got
through three of the four forms. I was elated, except then I received a similar
error message. So, I went through site after site and date after date. There
were four vaccinations sites available and five dates available. When I had
finished all the sites, I started again at the beginning. Finally, I got
through all four forms and was given a review of all the data I had submitted.;
I was exhausted but somewhat elated. Then I received another error message—just
as fatal. I groaned and started again.
This time I got to the actual appointment site. The instructions
were “Choose a time slot and register for it.” There were time slots starting at
8:00 a.m., then 8:07, 8:14, etc. all the way to 5:00 p.m. Next to each time
slot was the message, “appointment not available.” My heart plummeted.
Undaunted, I picked another site and started again. Same result. Finally, I
worked my way through every site and every date and got the same message. All 1,280
slots had been taken by other people.
Not only was I totally exhausted, but I was just plain out
of luck! What could I do? Absolutely nothing! I was like the invalid at the Pool
of Bethesda. Every time the angel stirred the pool, (John 5:4) someone else
made it into the pool before he could get there. Then Christ came along and
bypassed the system. It was obvious I needed Christ to come along and help me
bypass the system.
That’s exactly what happened in the person of Dr. Vo. That same
afternoon Sylvia got an attack of hypertension, and I took her into the
Riverside Medical Clinic Urgent Care. Dr. Vo urged both of us to register for
the COVID vaccination at the RMC website. She checked it out, and because we
were both patients of the RMC, we each already had a slot. We just had to
accept them.
Thank You, Lord,
that we already have rooms You have prepared for us in Your Father’s house. We
eagerly accept them.
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-distribute-a-covid-19-vaccine-ethically/
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