Update #2 on My Dad

Hello Friends! 

Here's the second update on my Dad. He is still in the hospital and in a significant amount of pain. However, Mom says that medically, he is doing well. They were able to remove the catheter and he will be moving to solid foods today. His Dr.s hope that Dad will be able to go home Thursday or Friday. God has been very good, and there appear to be no complications thus far. 

You can continue to pray for his spiritual state and that he will transition well to solid foods. Also, for my mom as she endures some of stresses of trying help my Dad and take care of my brother and the house. I think she is beginning to feel the stress of the situation.

Thank you for your prayer and support! 

Dr. Pauley Quote of the Day!

"Two cells emerge from the cleavage furrow. Giggle now, [not in cell bio]."

Update on Dad

Hello Friends, 

First off, thank you for all your prayers! 

As many of you know, my Dad was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. He had surgery to remove part of his colon this morning at 9. Here is an update on his condition. 

Dad's surgery is over and the news looks pretty good. The tumor had not perforated the wall of the Colon, which hopefully means this surgery will be curative (aka. it he won't need chemo). I haven't seen him yet, so I'm not sure how he's actually doing/feeling, but I'll post another update later. 

Thank you again for your prayers! Please pray continually for God to work powerfully in my Dad's heart and for him to get saved as result of this experience. 

Thank you so much for your guys' love and support! 

Dr. Becknell Quote of the Day!

"Do you know what's wrong with the gene pool? There's no lifeguard!"

Glitter on my Keyboard

As I sit here writing this blog post, I am literally covered in glitter. Glitter from 7 tiny hands making seven tiny craft hearts. There were more than a few deviously smiling 4-year-olds who thought their teacher might like some of their spare sparkles showered on her today. I love my children at Mountview Christian Preschool, but I am also a human. More than once, I found myself complaining over the fact that we decided to use glitter during crafts. Cleaning up their little "gifts" took more than the usual amount of paper towels, cleaner, and hard work.

But, much like my preschoolers, God has showered me with blessings this week. These circumstances taught me an important lesson and caused me to rejoice gladly to the Creator of everything blessed.

The Cost of Comfortable

"But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,"

Philippians 3:7-8

I have read these verses a thousand times, always with a certain apathetic regard for the passage. For a moment my heart exults in the knowledge that this is the way I was made to live, but this fleeting thought succumbs the fact that I am too comfortable to truly endure the "loss of all things." 


But this summer, the time came when God would allow my lazy heart to sleep no longer. My mother checked out a book-on-tape called Kisses from Katie. The passion and joy this book excited in my heart brought those verses to life. Katie, the author, is a 22 year old missionary to Uganda and she wrote this book about how her ministry came to be (she's been there since she was 19). I don't personally feel called to the mission field, but this book cut sharply through my contented passivity. You see, my ideal lifestyle has always been this: a calm, easy existence. To be successful was to have enough. But Katie truly discovered the heart of God. As I read her words heavy with compassion, love, and burdened care for the least of these, God exposed my ideal existence for what it really was: fearful selfishness. 

Lynley's (potential) Big Break

                  

I say that Progressive should hire me as their back up!