Of Mortal Ills Prevailing

Prayer Warriors,

We left this hospital stay with three extra medicines, a nebulizer machine and a regimen of continuous tubed feeds by machine. All of which are new to us and without a discontinue date except for one drug. I’m sure many can identify with what it’s like leaving a hospital and knowing things will be different going forward. It’s unsettling. We will have to depend on another medical contraption and drugs that we didn’t need before we entered.

It seems Anna and her daily life is becoming more “involved” as they say in hospital lingo. All this is potentially heartbreaking and despairing. But the best is yet to come. The Day of the Lord is coming and for someone like Anna it means a deliverance from inability into eternal ability. We remain grateful for all the medical fixes until that Day, but in my heart of hearts I yearn for when “my faith shall be sight.”

It takes a force much greater within me to enable me to continuously serve, to wait on God for betterment. The demands of taking care of Anna have been intense on Lindsey and I. I will sum up the caregiving for this common cold by saying “our striving would be losing were not the right Man on our side.” And He is, God is for us His promises will come to pass. Tomorrow will mark two weeks since the start of this latest illness. 5 days at the hospital, it feels like much more.

Please Pray:

-For sleep and communication to oil our marriage. We are up many times at night.

-For a persistent attitude of servanthood instead of complaint.

-For faith in the Day that God foretold us about. For the full healing it will bring. May this be a rich buffer of hope amid these demanding days.

-For a hymn on our hearts that speaks richly into our circumstance and offsets any fiery emotional dart that Satan would try.

-For God to end Anna’s virus, mucus and reflux. They are not welcome and have combined to hospitalize Anna.

-For Anna to have clear throat and lungs.

In a note of pure joy, this last week God has enabled/taught/encouraged Simon to walk. How incredible it is to see Simon taking this milestone. Praise God for how naturally the brain has brought coordination and ability to his limbs. Granted he looks like an orchestra conductor with both arms out while jiggling along on two feet. How fun and awe inspiring.

Love,

Nic, Lindsey, Simon, and Anna

"He will swallow up death forever;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
    and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
    for the Lord has spoken.
⁹ It will be said on that day,
    “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.
    This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
    let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” Isaiah 25