Days of Healing 2

I trust everyone is doing great.  We’re doing well and are continuing to enjoy lots of rest and relaxation.  It’s been very good.  Today (Saturday), we had a day off from infusion so we spent the day playing and reading and resting.  Joey and I tried swimming in the waves but the tide was pretty strong, so we decided to head back to the pool.  The water in the pool was hot enough to boil noodles; so we had elevator races instead.  I think Joey won, but we called it a tie to spare my ego.  At least I can hold on to my Clue title…

A friend of ours arrived here from Ontario.  Lisa and Sarah have spent a lot of time with her at the clinic in St. Catharine’s this past year, and told her about this treatment.  She’s come here in need of Jesus and healing.  We’re praying for her to receive both.  Lisa spent the afternoon with her to help her get oriented down here and also to be with her during her bone marrow extraction.  (You gotta love Lisa – loving and pastoring people, even when in the midst of caring for her own family).

As far as treatment goes, Sarah had a double dose yesterday and will again tomorrow.  She is doing really well, and the nausea didn’t last as long yesterday.  When we were in clinic yesterday, the Doctor gave us Sarah’s percentage (in terms of cell strength).  Again – she has set a new record!  The highest they have ever seen.  They used to measure the cell strength between 1 and 10%.  Last year, her cells were 17%.  This year – 28.1%!  Wow!  They are amazed, and so are we!  How great is our God.

Tomorrow, Sarah will receive her final infusion, and then she’ll rest for the remainder of the day.  We will spend some time together in the Word and worshipping as a family.  We will be missing our Lakemount family, and thinking and praying for the gatherings tomorrow.  We understand that there will be a fundraiser for Sarah’s treatment tomorrow there.  What an awesome family.  We love you all so much and we’re so blessed by your partnership in this journey.  You will reap what you have sown!

One final thought for the day: Every relationship requires hard work and effort in order to really grow and increase in health.  So it is with our relationship with Jesus.  An untended garden becomes a wild field through neglect.  Consistency of effort produces greater fruitfulness in any season because of diligence.

With this in mind, I’m going to pursue Jesus with reckless abandon.  I’m recommitting to my determined goal of greater friendship with God.  Moses was God’s friend, and he refused to move with out the Manifest Presence of God.  I’m going to do the same.  Join me?

Be blessed!

 

Matt & Lisa and Abby, Joey and Sarah

 

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