This has been a good week. We continue to receive phone calls, cards, and emails~some from folk we haven’t heard from for over forty years. How grateful we are to have such caring friends. So what is the lesson for me? Don’t wait until my friends get terminal before I encourage them!
My pain is under control and Hospice has provided me with an energy pill to help get me “moving,” and it seems to be helping.
Sunday was fabulous, as always, as we worshipped our awesome God at church, and afterwards we enjoyed an Old Chicago deep dish pizza with a church friend. Monday was our library day when we exchanged our weekly DVDs~watching an old movie is an excellent relaxer since we discontinued our cable TV service over a year ago. Tuesday I had my routine six week stent replaced in my ureter ~if any surgical procedure can be considered routine! Wednesday and Thursday were days of email and other business catch-up tasks (we’re not yet caught up!) Friday night was a highlight of our week as we again gathered with friends for fellowship and discussion of Bible truths.
I titled this, “Do what is right!” It is a challenge today to find people in the news doing what is right, but I found one just this morning while reading 2 Chronicles: “Joash (King of Judah) did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.” Wouldn’t you like that on your tombstone? “(Name) did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.” The wonderful part of this challenge is that it is never too late to do what is right no matter how bad we’ve messed up before. God forgives! Didn’t Jesus die for our sins? Remember that today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Thanks for following us on this journey. Your prayers continue to keep us focused on others and not ourselves. Keep praying!
Thanks for such an encouraging post, Ed! I'm glad to read that you had a good week. We continue to pray for you!
ReplyDeleteI read a quote this week and loved it. Here it is:
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
~ Phillips Brooks. "Going up to Jerusalem", Sermons (1886), p. 330.
Dear Mary and Ed,
ReplyDeleteMy Uncle Gene forwarded me your blog information. Ironically, this weekend while cleaning my house I came across your sympathy card regarding the loss of my Dad (which it has been 8 years this past Saturday 8/20). I was thinking to myself, "I need to send them a card". I had no idea Ed has been battling nearly the exact thing my Dad went through. My prayers and thoughts are with you and your entire family. May the hand of God bring you the Peace which passes all understanding.
Sincerely,
Mark Hamrick (Ken & Littie Hamrick's No. 4 Son)
Mark, that you so much for your post. Must have been a God thing to find that sympathy card regarding the loss of your Dad! Even though we've met but for a short while, your family has been part of our lives for a very long time. Thank you very much for your thoughts and prayers on our behalf. Jesus is the Peace-giver, and He has given us His good and perfect peace!
ReplyDeleteIn Him, Ed & Mary