What a week! And, I might add what a May and June. Nobody saw all these surprises coming. God did! Wow, here He is leading us across the bridge - warring angels fighting the enemy all the way across and we didn't even know it.
In the book I never have time to write, I illustrated the story of girlfriends crossing the bridge - some in fear, some slowly making their way over, and others skipping way ahead. It has been a really long crossover since May 1st, when our friends Jack and Joyce lost Jack's beloved brother Jim. It was at the Walmart store of all places, where he said goodbye and began a very arduous crossover to the other side of living without him. Then another friend became paralyzed and ended up in the hospital the end of May and is still there learning to walk again. Our neighbor down the road, a cancer survivor just contracted pneumonia. John had the surprise of his life (we did together) when they announced a 4 CM melanoma had to be removed. Surgery was last Tuesday and John came home same day. They took two lymph nodes and have pronounced them clear. Two days later, Joyce's brother (the other half of Hefty State Farm with her) became paralyzed and had to be entered into Parkview as of last night. His mass on the spine turned into Lymphoma. They could not get it all.
It reaches way beyond stepping up to the plate, and or put your big boy/girl pants on sometimes. This is where we have to cling so tightly to the Master Jesus, we can't breath. He has to do the breathing for us. He has to load us up on His back and carry us forward.
Pray with us as we hold our friends up as best we can. It took me three days to recuperate from being at Goshen and the stress of wondering - what will our day end up looking like. We all need to hold each other up. Something's cookin', wouldn't you say? We need to cross over the bridge in full assurance that God has sent all the angels necessary to guard and guide our steps.
Romans 8: 28
PS 18:33
Deut. 31: 8
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