My mom, dad and I on my Mom's Birthday...84 years old

We celebrated my mom's birthday last night and you learn to treasure these days more and more...hugs, cheryl Hard to believe they are 84 abd 85 ...where did the years go?

Walk by faith..had to put my dad in the nursing home..please pray!

Friday, June 13, 2008
Walk by faith
"Faith is walking out onto a ledge of nothing, expecting to find something there."

The idea of faith in today's society is that of which we don't see too often anymore. We live in a world of science and factual evidence. Believing in something you can't see or prove is considered to be very naive. As Christians however, Christ calls us to have ultimate faith.

"Walk by faith, not by sight," is a phrase most of us are very familiar with, but do we ever think about what that truly means? His word tells us this concerning faith,


"These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world."~1 Peter 1:7

How many of us can really say that we apply this to our everyday lives? When our husband loses his job, can we honestly say that we praise the Lord for giving us a trial to strengthen our faith in HIM? Yet, that's exactly what we should be doing. HE doesn't give us trials in our lives for punishment. Quite the opposite, in fact. HE loves us so much that it is HIS intention to strengthen our faith and our walk. If we begin to see our faith as "more precious then mere gold," it is my belief that we can be on the road to living a truly abundant life in HIM.

Dear Lord,
Help us to see our trials as great, glorious opportunities to build our faith in you. You see us exactly as we are and for that we are so grateful. Let us challenge ourselves to live more for you everyday and to be obedient to your living word.
In your son's name we pray,
Amen

We had to put my dad in the nursing home last night for at least a week..we were up for three straight nights with him...my mom had a good angiogram now just seeing if she has any blood clots..they still are not sure what is causing the shortness of breath but she does have a few things wrong with the parts of the heart but no major blockage which is a huge God Watch as she had triple by pass five years ago...hugs, cheryl

My dad ..ups and downs of the hospital...

It has been a long weekend of ups and downs and this told and that said and finally today they are coming up with more details of what they feel is happening...my dad they feel had a stroke a few weeks ago when we noticed something was wrong with him...then the stares and sitting not talking were mini seizures happening and when they did the MRI a few weeks ago that was the spot of the stroke on the brain...then they did another MRI yesterday and there have been changes and now some bleeding is occurring at that spot...then they did another PSA test and before his test came back at 22 and now it is over 200 so they did a bone scan to see if the cancer has spread and we will not know till later on about this. But they are putting him on seizure medicine and his temps have spiked up to 104.0 as of last night and he has had to be on a cooling mat with ice bags around him..he has been a trooper through out all of this..My mom is hanging in there and Lindsay and my mom and I are switching going up to feed him ...he will have to start physical therapy and to get his strength back up and that is why he was so lethargic from the stroke...Now our prayers are that the bone scan does not show anything bad...then my mother's kitchen has been torn up and the carpenter had been doing all the repairs and I so want my dad to come home as he is so excited about his new kitchen as he has wanted this for so many years..My mom and dad have had so many calls and people visiting him from church and friends it is so awesome to see the outpouring of love shown to them at this time from their Christian Friends...they are truly loved by many and I have had so many people share so many stories about my mom and dad..it is awesome to hear them...

I got a call from Lorraine at CEF and they are going to get some help for us and come and put my mother's kitchen back together again for her as my mom will never ask for help so that will be such a relief as it is all over the place and the carpenter should be done tomorrow...please pray for my family especially my siblings it has been a very stressful time and for my mom...hugs, cheryl God is working!
PS Lindsay is doing amazing! She looks so good and to think how much pain she was in just a few weeks ago is so hard to believe...