Please continue to pray for Laura and the Rock family. Laura has managed to hold on but is still in a coma, in need of her liver to be miraculous healed or to receive a new liver, and she is retaining fluid so they have put a “screw” into her brain to help with this. Please also pray for wisdom for the doctors and good communication between the doctors because the information that the Rock’s receive seems to change with each new shift and doctor. Please pray for strength, peace, and comfort for the Rock’s as well. And above all else, continue to pray that God would be glorified in all of this.
It seems selfish to ask for your prayers in light of things like the Rock’s are going through. I do ask for your prayers as well. I am just in a period of brokenness, confusion, uncertainty, and stress. My good friend Dave spoke truth into me last night as I was moaning and he reminded me that although what I am experiencing is difficult, there are far worse things going on in the world and the lives of others.
This morning I was reading in Job chapters 1 and 2 and a few verses struck a chord within me that I’d like to share with you:
Job 1:21 “He said . . . The Lord gave me everything I had and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!” (NLT)
Job 2:10 “But Job replied . . .. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” (NLT)
This morning I am reminded of my need of God. I am reminded of my weakness. I am reminded of messiness. I am reminded that in all of this, both good and bad, his grace is enough.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (NIV).
Amen.
It is never selfish to ask for prayer, God hears every single one. I’ll be praying.
Be Weak my friend! It’s the only way to go anyway. My prayers are yours today.
I second Harriets motion for “being weak” – we are anyway right?
My experience isthat when I have ceased my thrashing about and posturing, and fall exhausted into His open arms, then I can rest in the truths of “being still and knowing that He is God” and “casting my cares on Him, knowing He cares for me”.
Go and be weak – breathe in and breath out and know that God hears your heartbeat and prayers.
Love,
Dad
Remember all the people who love you and are praying for you all over the world. Thanks for letting us be part of your joys and your struggles. All our love, Mom
Can only add Amen and Amen to all the above comments – thanks for sharing your struggles as well as the good times.
Realize too how blessed you are to have a Mom and Dad (esp ones like yours :-)) and MANY friends to be with you in this.
You have LOTS going on in your life right now Chad and having had visit from family – its not surprising you feel a whole mix of things (doesn’t make it any easier when you are in the midst of it though!) – so be kind to yourself and take a day at a time, or, as your dad says, a breath at a time!
Really looking forward to spending time with you Chad – sure that God will bless the both of us in it.
Know Karen joins me in sending love & prayers
Robin
Chad…thanks for your honesty. your words encouraged me today. praying for you.
Whatever it is that brings us ’round again to the “pain point”, how major or minor, is that, with GOD, we learn (more each time) how to make passage with the grace of being HIS child and not the grief of being a child.
Hangeth in, dear one, hangeth in.
You are loved and you and your concerns, known and unknown,are prayed for from here with great enthusiasum!