Sunday

From now on, 

 if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am commanding you today,

love God, your God, and serve him with everything you have within you,

he’ll take charge of sending the rain at the right time ….

~Deuteronomy 11:13-14 (MSG)~

 

 

 

Eric Pritchard

Please keep Eric on the prayer list. it’s not looking promissing, But with Jesus,all things are possible. Keep praying for a miracle.

Lloyd and Alcyon Hayden

 

Wagstaffs

Here’s our latest on the medical front.  We have a complication.  Bob just had his x-rays and doctor’s visit, and  unfortunately the doctor did not release us to make reservations to come home on Feb.6, as we had hoped.  He wants Bob to have a CT Scan on Tuesday because he is having so much pain.  If he doesn’t find the problem and Bob is still in pain he will have an MRI as soon as it can be scheduled.
   We are getting weary of being away, but Bob couldn’t do anything there anyway while he is having this much pain.  Please do continue to pray.  It seems that Bob’s backbone is healing nicely, but the doctor said there may be a bloodclot or hemorrhaging that is pressing on a nerve.  Doctor Ha (Yes, that is really his name.) is not sure what is causing this pain, that’s why Bob will have more tests.
  Our prayer request is for Bob to be pain free and to be released to come home.  We would love for that to happen by Tuesday.  Anyway, God has a reason for allowing our hardships.  Pray that we will understand why this is happening.  But, even if we don’t, we praise God that He is in charge.
     We love you guys,
                             Diane

 

Adrianna Cavanagh

Today was a rough day for Adrianna and for us.  Yet God blessed us with another miracle and now she is sleeping peacefully on the couch.
Early this morning I could tell Adrianna was very confused.  She kept saying she wanted to go to Mommy’s room, but we were already in there.  Finally we brought her into the living room to the couch, because she wanted to be moved.  She threw up a lot last night and all through the morning, but kept wanting to drink more water and milk.
Around 11:30 she began to start straining for breath, just as she did last Saturday night- a week ago.  We all sat around her, talking to her, telling her she did not have to fight anymore and she could go be with God…and not to be scared. 
She then had what seemed like 3 different seizures, so we kept giving her Ativan to calm her down.  Thankfully, the hospice nurse was here to help.  We also switched her pain meds because her leg, feet, and arm pain have been getting worse.
As she finally regained some strength and started breathing normally, we were all in awe again.  Simply a miracle!  We just kept shaking our heads in disbelief, thinking, “Wow!  This kid is tough!  She just doesn’t want to give up yet!”
After a while, I took a long bath and thought of Abraham in the Bible who was supposed to sacrifice his son, Isaac.  Though Abraham couldn’t bear to do this to his son, he followed God’s orders until God said for him to stop, and saved Isaac from being sacrificed.
I kind of felt like we had done something similar today–tell ing God to take her so she wouldn’t suffer anymore, and God giving us a miracle. 
Adrianna has woken up off and on, asking for water nonstop.  She has kept down all of her medicine and fluids tonight and is finally sleeping, without pain.
God bless all the people who’ve been praying for all of us, for the people who’ve been holding a candlelight vigil outside our home every night, and for all the people who’ve been bringing us delicious food to eat all week.
We are truly blessed with amazing family, friends, and acquaintances. 
We are tired, but happy that our baby girl is still here with us, fighting like the true fighter she is.
And we’re trusting in God, who is the ONLY one who can give us the real strength we need and the peace that passes ALL understanding.
Hoping to have more precious moments with our baby girl tomorrow, and that she will be pain-free tonight and tomorrow. 
Taking it day by day, hour by hour….
Keeping the faith and believing in miracles,
Stephanie, Joe, & Adrianna

 

Roy Russell has been moved to North Oaks Rehab.  He is getting some help he needs to recover f rom his stroke.  Please keep him in your prayers.

 

 

My cousin, Sharla, is doing much better at rehab.  She still has some issues the medical staff is working on, but is definately better.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

 

 

Daddy had his first cataract surgery and is doing well.  Please continue to pray for him as he progresses and for us as Momma and Daddy have four appointments with doctors this week.

 

 

KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor

 

 

 
THERE IS A certain convict that I have been corresponding with for several years down in Texas that recently got a “new” typewriter…
 
He had completely worn out the old one.
 
It was not very easy to correct his errors on the old machine and the letters he would type were full of typos most of the time.  I was taken back by the cost of the new one…$110…quite a price to pay for anything in prison, and it was very elevating to my own soul to hear how joyful he was at being able to buy it.
 
I wrote him a letter and told him that every once in a while all of us need a little new in our lives.
 
Makes me wonder…
 
Why don’t we sweep out the old grudges from our lives, rip the pages of regret out of our life book, focus on how much good God has done for us, plant a seed of hopefulness in our neighbors, write a special memory on the wall paper of someone’s heart?  Replace the fears of tomorrow with the good we can do today.  Make a difference where we stand.  Do the little things that matter.  Hope more, love more, find new ways to serve, get out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
 
What stirs you?  What is your passion?  What makes you get up early, go to bed late, work harder, stay longer, risk more, cry less, laugh more?  What if there was no way for you to lose?  No way to be disappointed, no “on the other hand,” nothing but good consequences at the end of the day?
 
What if you could “buy” a dream, make a wish come true, be the person you’ve always known you could be?  How hard would it be to put some “new” in your life by changing just one simple thing – your attitude?
 
What if we looked forward to helping others instead of considering it a chore, that’s right a chore, don’t think I’m the only one that ever had the thought, “I could be doing something I want to do instead of helping so and so.”  I’m not.  Neither are you.
 
What kind of “new” could you and I put in our lives that would give us the joy that this convict feels with a new typewriter?  Could it be as simple as looking each day for someone to serve in some way even if it is small?  Yep that would do it for me.  I could get up for some “new” in my own life, a change in my attitude, an opportunity to serve others and the good part is those “others” are all around me.
 
I think perhaps we are so conflicted about what we should be doing and dont do that it makes us all start searching for something different or new to put joy in our lives whwen all along the “new” is simply to write on our own internal typewriters a “new name” to serach each day.  I must do better.  Ken Upchurch (Ken is a shepherd with the Kensington Woods church of Christ in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.)

 
“Therefore, as we have opportunity,

let us do good to all,

especially to those who are of the household of faith.” 

Galatians 6:10

 

 

 

I’ll post some other updates this afternoon.

Have a great Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee