When you see your primary care provider or some other kind of doctor, and they order lab work, it usually means you’re gonna give some blood. Isn’t that a warm and fuzzy description of what’s gonna happen? Yeah, no. There’s not much warm and fuzzy going on in those places anymore.

Just so you know, here’s some of what they look at in your lab work:

• BUN
• Creatinine
• eGFR
• BUN/Creatinine Ratio
• Sodium
• Potassium
• Chloride
• Carbon Dioxide
• Calcium
• Protein
• Albumin
• Globulin
• Bilirubin
• Alkaline Phosphatase
• AST
• ALT

And they don’t just look to be sure you have those things in your blood. They want to see how much or how little you have of each of those things. Because if your numbers don’t fall within certain guidelines, you could have problems that require a little more attention.

I’ve experienced quite a bit of lab work time over the past 4 1/2 months. And I’ve seen those kinds of numbers being scrutinized by “experts.”

And I put quotation marks around the word experts for a reason. Because I firmly believe the complexity found in a single drop of blood can only be fully understood by the one and only Expert. And of course, that would be the expert who invented blood. I used the word invented loosely. Because He created blood. Yours, mine, and the blood of every other living creature.

But there’s something in the blood of humans thus far more important than anything else on that bulleted list I shared above. A little something called life. The life that’s contained in the information in your DNA. And it’s the life that comes directly from your Creator.

A wise man (or woman) knows that’s true. Only a fool would say otherwise.

A few years ago I saw a picture of a man-made heart that was very interesting. I seem to remember that the person who shared it marveled at the idea that we humans could come up with such a design. And that inspired me to write a rhyme, aimed at kids, to show them how the design of a real heart is infinitely more marvelous. Here’s that rhyme…

Middle of a Heartbeat

In the middle of a heartbeat
Something small stirs…
Like the sound that a kitten makes
With pulsing purrs.
Your blood goes whooshing through your veins
From head to toe,
And you might just kinda wonder
What makes it go.
It’s the code down deep inside you,
It’s yours alone,
A gift from the eternal King
On His white throne.
So, hold your breath, be very still,
And then you’ll hear,
In the middle of a heartbeat,
A love so dear.  © 2023 TF

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