From this morning’s Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening devotional:
Isaiah 51:5 “On mine arm shall they trust”
When he is burdened with troubles so pressing and so peculiar, that he cannot tell them to any but his God, he may be thankful for them; for he will learn more of his Lord then than at any other time.
It is overwhelming to think of the beautiful patchwork quilt God is weaving together. Shades of grey intermixed with green flowers, red and white stripes, blue paisleys, houndstooth, and old antique cars. Threads of hurt holding together patches of loneliness, grief, celebration, worry, and hope.
It’ll be a beautiful thing to see God wrapped in what He has Sovereignly woven together.
This has been a very productive hospital stay for Maggie. We’re coming home with some more medicine changes and a lot more information that helps us help Maggie with the numerous stimulation struggles she has, which leads to other snowballing problems. It all ties back to her temporal lobe, previous surgeries, and the location of nasty old tumor.
Thank you for praying for us and Maggie.
Quick update from the hospital – Looks like this visit is going very well, one of the more productive in a long while. Doctors are learning a lot. It appears she’ll be coming home on Wednesday. Thank you for your prayers.
Maggie was admitted to Children’s Hospital today to undergo more testing, per the doctors request. She is completely off her meds, as well as her vagal nerve stimulator. When I left this afternoon, Maggie had had one episode already. However, they need to be clearly defined on the testing equipment to be of help, and that has always been a problem.
Please pray that her seizures are clear and definite on the monitoring equipment, and that she doesn’t have to have too many of them to give the doctors what they need.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jim Elliot’s quote: “Wherever you are, be all there” and its’ impact on my day to day. When thinking of Christ, I think He lived that. When worshiping, worship. When lying down, rest. When with others, listen. When playing, play. When working, work. Giving my mind, heart, ears, and soul to whatever and wherever I am at that moment.
It means changing the ringer from vibrate to silent.
During our vacation, we got a call from Denver Children’s Hospital that they want to admit Maggie for monitoring and testing on August 24. She’ll likely be in the hospital for about three days. We began weaning Maggie from her medications last night.
All the kids start back to school on Monday and begin taking classes at Collegium Study Center, too.
Here are some pictures from our vacation in Breckenridge:
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