May 20th, 2012

Today was a good day!  We had church this morning and it was a really good time.  It was our Mercy Project Sunday (Faith Promise) and we had a special speaker.  She was great!  Karla Sunberg was there and did a great job of introducing our next partnership in the horn of Africa. 

After church, we chilled at the house for a bit.

Then, I had a parent meeting this afternoon.  It was a good meeting.  We introduced several things that are changing this fall in our ministry.  All seemed to be on board and it turned out well.

After the meeting, the Johnson's were at our house hanging out.  It has been awhile since we have done this, so it was good to just be together.  

Tomorrow is a busy day!  I wake up early to go and pick up Seth at the airpot.  I think he gets here at 7:30 am.  Then, I will bring him home and he will stay with Cully while we take Caleb to get all of his scans done.  We have to be at the clinic between 9 and 9:30 am to draw blood and then over to the hospital to get his scans done.  They are supposed to start at 11 pm and should only take an hour.  Then, when Caleb wakes up and is ok, we should be able to come home.  

This week will be a long week.  We have to wait until  Friday to find out the results, so this weeks is going to be stressful as we have to be patient and wait.  Waiting is so hard...especially when what we are waiting to hear is what the next few weeks/months of our lives will look like and more importantly how the chemo is doing with the cancer in Caleb's body.  This is going to be worse than waiting for Christmas morning!

So, we could use your prayer tomorrow morning as Caleb goes in for the tests!  We are praying for improvement in his body and believe that we will see it.  We are also praying for an easy, non-eventful morning with the testing and blood work.  

We also need daily prayer, if not hour by hour, for patience and low anxiety as we wait for four days on the results.  We are already nervous and they have not even run the tests yet.  

Tera and I had a long talk last night about everything and fear is still something we experience often.  We still ask a lot of "what if" questions.  We still wonder why.  I am not sure that these are things we will ever get over...even when we hear the word "remission".  We are very hopeful and optimistic about getting rid of the cancer, but life will never be the same.  We are better people and although we have more faith than we have ever had, it often feels like it isn't much at the same time.  We still have so much to learn on this journey and we are doing our best to walk this out as faithful as we know how.

So, this week is a huge week.  We thank you in advance for the prayer that will be offered for us during this week.

I will post more tomorrow as we sit in the waiting.