Friday, May 02, 2008
Too Much Information
Yesterday, I went through a heart-stopping moments when I read a text message from my wife:
"I am positive for rubella"
My God!
Being a guy in information age, of course I immediately googled "rubella in pregnancy". The result was disheartening:
Rubella, or German measles, is most dangerous to your baby if you catch it during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Rubella can cause miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects in unborn babies, such as deafness, brain damage, heart defects and cataracts. This is called congenital rubella syndrome and it is transmitted to the baby through the placenta. Rubella is now rare as people were either vaccinated at school or as part of the childhood vaccine MMR.
Taken from: http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=1104#
After I read the info, my legs felt like spaghettis... However, I know my wife would also have googled the same thing. So, bravely (though not faithfully) I texted her back:
"Let's not make any assumptions for now, we are not sure what the lab result really means. Meanwhile, just pray to God that his will be done."
Thank God that my fingers did not also turn into spaghettis :)
I have to admit though, at that time, I texted her out of reason, not out of faith. I was just trying to calm her down, and let me do the panic part :) As it turned out, what the lab test meant was that my wife had contacted rubella before and therefore, is IMMUNE to rubella now.
Praise God!
And of course I felt so stupid worrying for no reasons at all... you know, sometimes too much information can kill ya! Seriously, I think there is a threshold where we have just enough information for our well-being, however after you passed that threshold, our well-being started to go down due to too much information.
Am I making any sense at all?
Well, to put it into perspective, I think in this age where we can get so much information about everything, many, many things that we wouldn't have known before can worry us. That is why faith in God who are all loving, all powerful and all purposeful, is more important than ever! Imagine if we have no faith in God, then, we can be worn down due to all these worrying infos, most of them might be unnecessary...
I am learning this especially during our pregnancy. Yes my wife and I can control some of the things, such as our behaviors and habits. However, we have no other intelligent choice but to give everything else up to God and have faith that everything will work for good for everyone who loves him and who are called according to his purpose.
AMEN!
"I am positive for rubella"
My God!
Being a guy in information age, of course I immediately googled "rubella in pregnancy". The result was disheartening:
Rubella, or German measles, is most dangerous to your baby if you catch it during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Rubella can cause miscarriage, stillbirth or birth defects in unborn babies, such as deafness, brain damage, heart defects and cataracts. This is called congenital rubella syndrome and it is transmitted to the baby through the placenta. Rubella is now rare as people were either vaccinated at school or as part of the childhood vaccine MMR.
Taken from: http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=1104#
After I read the info, my legs felt like spaghettis... However, I know my wife would also have googled the same thing. So, bravely (though not faithfully) I texted her back:
"Let's not make any assumptions for now, we are not sure what the lab result really means. Meanwhile, just pray to God that his will be done."
Thank God that my fingers did not also turn into spaghettis :)
I have to admit though, at that time, I texted her out of reason, not out of faith. I was just trying to calm her down, and let me do the panic part :) As it turned out, what the lab test meant was that my wife had contacted rubella before and therefore, is IMMUNE to rubella now.
Praise God!
And of course I felt so stupid worrying for no reasons at all... you know, sometimes too much information can kill ya! Seriously, I think there is a threshold where we have just enough information for our well-being, however after you passed that threshold, our well-being started to go down due to too much information.
Am I making any sense at all?
Well, to put it into perspective, I think in this age where we can get so much information about everything, many, many things that we wouldn't have known before can worry us. That is why faith in God who are all loving, all powerful and all purposeful, is more important than ever! Imagine if we have no faith in God, then, we can be worn down due to all these worrying infos, most of them might be unnecessary...
I am learning this especially during our pregnancy. Yes my wife and I can control some of the things, such as our behaviors and habits. However, we have no other intelligent choice but to give everything else up to God and have faith that everything will work for good for everyone who loves him and who are called according to his purpose.
AMEN!
# posted by indra : 4:18 PM
