Saturday

We are not giving up hope yet.  Our beloved doctors in New Orleans are not giving up hope yet, either.  We drove to Touro for radiation today, which will alleviate A drianna’s back pain and possibly shrink the tumors on her left lung, and compressing on her heart muscle.  We will do 7 days of radiation that will only last about 5 minutes and will not cause any damage to her organs.

Praying for another treatment that can give us the most time with our daughter as possible, without causing her to suffer….

We are taking one day at a time, but are more than ecstatic to think that we have more time with our sweet Adrianna than we had thought.
Thanks so much for all of you who gave us such a heart-warming homecoming.  From the crowd at the airport that watched our Red Rocket plane land, to the line of people on the highway near our home, to the family and friends who welcomed us at our house….we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Praying every minute of the day for a miracle!!

So happy to be given some hope, and to think that Adrianna will not suffer.  Yet we know we need to be carefully optimistic.  We don’t want to put her through anything she can’t handle.

One day at a time….God will lead us in the right direction.

Feeling truly blessed and believing in miracles with all our might,
Stephanie, Joe, & Adrianna

 
ON MARCH 10, 1974, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who had been a Japanese lieutenant in the Philippines during World War II, became the last Japanese soldier to surrender…
 
The war ended in 1945, but Onoda hid in the jungles of the island of Lubang for almost three decades, sucessfully avoiding all efforts to find him.
 
The Japanese and Philippine authorities, aware of his presence, repeatedly broadcast reports of this war in the Japanese language and left Japanese newspapers on the beach where he could find them.  But Onoda thought all these were ruses to lure him to surrender, so he continued his one-man war.
 
Onoda’s situation is similar to that of the sinner’s condition before God.  Christ’s death on the cross does not automatically bring him peace and save him anymore than the peace concluded between Japan and the Philippines brought peace to Onoda.  Onoda had to believe that peace had been made, then he had to surrender and accept it.  In a similar fashion today, Jesus makes peace available to us, but we can only enjoy it when we surrender to the Lord, and and then accept it in faith and obedience to the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Hebrews 5:8-9).  Arnold Wallenkampf
 
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle way of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.”  Ephesians 2:14-15

May your weekend be a time of peace and love….

Anna Lee