Prayer and Praise

For those of you who like to pray for health related issues, here are a few quick things to pray for…

• My Mom is heading to the hospital today to have some "minor" work done this afternoon.  Please pray for her recovery over the next couple of days especially, and for my Dad who is also dealing with health issues.
• Nathanael has shown some improvement, but will be going in for blood work tomorrow and then another doctor’s appointment probably on Thursday.  Please pray for continued wisdom and direction in his treatment.  Nathanael and I also have nasty colds.
• I will be going to the doctor this week so he can tell me how I’m feeling.  😉
• Shari has been struggling with a bad headache, and it needs to go away.
• I will be Lord willing seeing an optometrist later this month regarding some trouble I’ve been having with my eyes.  Please pray that I’ll find the right doctor and get some help.

Thanks for your prayers!  God is teaching us and reminding us to rely on Him.  He’s great!

Excuse the ambiguous title, but it seems there are loose ends all over the place here at Finding direction, so I’m going to tie a few up.  Thanks to Ken for the reminder.

First, I already mentioned this but Hannah and Nathanael are fine after the fevers of the last week or two.  Shari was sick but is starting to feel better.  As for me… well, I’m supposed to take some drugs and talk to my doctor again in about 10 days.  So I’m making as much progress toward health as is possible at the moment (I’m even writing this lying in bed – a rare tip of the hat toward recovery for me).

I mentioned Toby in the last audio post.  Marilyn (his wife) emailed from Houston on the 14th to say that he’s fine!  They’re playing with his meds a bit, but it sounds like he’s doing ok.  So praise the Lord and thank you for your prayers!

We had a good visit with the Fry family on Sunday.  In an effort to check out what’s going on in other parts of Mexico, we’ve visited with the Frys and the Williams.  They were good visits, and we look forward to more, including a trip to Texcoco next week to visit the Smiths.

Meanwhile, we’re doing school – ours and the kids’.  And as always we appreciate your prayers for that!

I don’t want to write here about every runny nose in the house, but I know many of you were praying for Nathanael and would like an update.  Nathanael was still not really himself this morning, but his fever was gone and he seemed quite a bit better.  So we did take him to school – actually, walked him to school, since the van is still in the shop.  The walk was such a novelty he was thrilled, and enjoyed seeing the "street cows" crossing the road in front of us.  😉

But… as you may guess from the subject of this post, we have another kid home today.  Hannah was down with a fever and headache last night, and is now lying on the couch taking her turn.  She’s not feeling too bad now, but is pretty lethargic.

We had quite an interesting week planned, and it already has changed drastically.  Two of us were very sorry to miss the special party on Sunday (as I mentioned in the last post).  Today we were going to have some special friends over to do some Mexican cooking, but they have a little daughter and we’ll probably need to cancel in order keep her healthy (it will be up to her parents – she was already sick probably with the same thing, so they may yet risk it).

Tomorrow we had some other kids coming over to play, and I was getting together with some friends for a Bible study Thursday, and … well, we’ll just have to take it one day at a time.  A Mexican lady today told me "All the world is sick" – so I guess it’s going around!  😥