Hi Everyone,
Sorry we haven't written a post in a while. We have been busy surviving! Well, today is our 23rd wedding anniversary. Wow! Time flies. I am thankful for Darryl and our children. I have been blessed beyond measure. When Darryl and I married this time 23 years ago, I would never have dreamed we would be a minister's family serving the Lord in Alabama. LOL! We didn't even know the Lord back then. God has been so very good and gracious to us. Our journey just keeps getting sweeter (sometimes much more difficult, but sweeter).
Thank you again for your prayers. Jalin still struggles with the pain in her left foot. It is in constant pain and burns continuously. Mostly during the day she tolerates it, but at night and early morning she cries with the pain. Jalin and I didn't get to church this morning. She is so nauseous in the morning from the pain meds. We pray that we can go tonight to see our kid's Christmas drama. It starts at 6:00 Ga time, if you can make it. I hear it is incredible!
Remember there are 12 days until Christmas. Count your blessings and focus on Jesus! We love each of you! Merry Christmas!
Love,
Lori
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Happy Anniversary!! Hope God continues to bless you with many more.
ReplyDeleteYes, the play is wonderful. I don't know who laughed more, Kent or Bro. Darryl. I think they were cracking each other up. LOL!
Jalin, I pray your pain in your foot will go away. Continue to be strong and keep up the faith.
We love you,
Caurrie,Kent
Jalin,
ReplyDeleteI am praying for you. I don't know if you know the story behind the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" so I would like to share it with you....This is from a book entitled "My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns" written in 1906 by Ira David Sankey. This section is about Horatio G. Spafford who wrote "It Is Well With My Soul."
"When Mr. Moody and I were holding meetings in Edinburgh, in 1874, we heard the sad news of the loss of the French steamer, “Ville de Havre,” on her return from America to France, with a large number of members of the Ecumenical Council, whose meetings had been held in Philadelphia. On board the steamer was a Mrs. Spafford, with her four children. In mid-ocean a collision took place with a large sailing vessel, causing the steamer to sink in half an hour. Nearly all on board were lost. Mrs. Spafford got her children out of their berths and up on deck. On being told that the vessel would soon sink, she knelt down in prayer, asking God that they might be saved if possible; or be made willing to die, if that was his will. In a few minutes the vessel sank to the bottom of the sea, and the children were lost. One of the sailors of the vessel, named Lockurn—whom I afterward met in Scotland—while rowing over the spot where the vessel disappeared, discovered Mrs. Spafford floating in the water. Ten days later she was landed at Cardiff, Wales. From there she cabled her husband, a lawyer in Chicago, the message, “Saved alone;” Mr. Spafford, who was a Christian, had the message framed and hung up in his office. He started immediately for England to bring his wife to Chicago. Mr. Moody left his meetings in Edinburgh and went to Liverpool to try to comfort the bereaved parents, and was greatly pleased to find that they were able to say: “It is well; the will of God be done.”
In 1876, when we returned to Chicago to work, I was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Spafford for a number of weeks. During that time Mr. Spafford wrote the hymn, “It is well with my soul,” in commemoration of the death of his children. P. P. Bliss composed the music and sang it for the first time at a meeting in Farwell Hall. The comforting fact in connection with this incident was that in one of our small meetings in North Chicago, a short time prior to their sailing for Europe, the children had been converted.
While still living in Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Spafford became much interested in the second Coming of Christ. So zealous did Mr. Spafford become that he decided to go to Jerusalem with his wife and the one remaining daughter, and there await the coming of the Lord. Mr. Spafford died there not along afterward. Mrs. Spafford is the head of a society whose headquarters are in a large building outside of Jerusalem, where a a large number of people live, having all things in common."
I can't imagine how you feel and how much you are suffering from the pain, but I know Someone who does know how you feel and what it is to suffer.
I am praying for you and felt led to share this with you.
Te amo mucho.
Hi Jalin,
ReplyDeleteI hope your spirits are high this holiday season! Just know that "YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, AND HE HAS SENT YOU HERE".
I am a child of God,
And he has sent me here,
Has given me an earthly home
With parents kind and dear.
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Chorus
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.
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I am a child of God,
And so my needs are great;
Help me to understand his words
Before it grows too late.
Chorus
I am a child of God.
Rich blessings are in store;
If I but learn to do his will
I'll live with him once more.
Chorus
I am a child of God.
His promises are sure;
Celestial glory shall be mine
If I can but endure.
Chorus
LOVE LISA PODUSKA (FLORIDA)
HAPPY ANNIVERSERY!! I hope you guys had a great one! and pray you have MANY MANY more. Bless you two! Jalin im still prayin for your foot and i wish i could co something to help it but Prayin is all i can do ao i'll just stick with that! I hope and prayyou guys have the greatest christmas EVER and can't wait to see you again! Love You guys,
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Jalin, we continue to pray for you and I know soon God will ease the pain and nausea and you will be left with one incredible testimony. And a heart full of empathy for those suffering pain and disabilities!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND JALIN WE ARE STILL PRAYING FOR YOU TO HAVE A COMPLETE RECOVERY. I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY LATELY THAT I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO WRITE YOU. MOTHER CAME HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY AFTER 2 WEEKS. GRACIE HAS BEEN FEELING BAD WITH A HEAD COLD AND I HAVE BEEN HELPING MINDY AND JEROME WITH HER SO THEY COULD DO THEIR LAST MINUTE DETAILS. WHAT A BUSY TIME OF THE YEAR!! I HOPE YOU KEEP IMPROVING AND THIS CHRISTMAS WILL BE EVERYTHING YOU WANT IT TO BE. YOU HAVE REALLY MADE EVERYONE'S CHRISTMAS MORE MEANINGFUL THIS YEAR.I THANK THE LORD THAT HE SPARED EVERYONE LIVES AND HE IS CONTINUALLY BLESSING YOU WITH HIS HEALING TOUCH. ALWAYS KNOW THAT WE ARE STILL PRAYING FOR YOUR COMPLETE HEALING. WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SO MUCH. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR. LOVE, SANDRA AND DANNY HARRIS
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