DID YOU EVER HAVE A COUPLE DAYS JUST "DISAPPEAR"?

I am not sure what happened to Wednesday and Thursday and this morning ... It all seems a blur. We have spent so much time travelling to and from the hospitals in the past week (for 7 people associated with our church) that it has just flown.

The past 24 hours (except for sleeping time) have been wrapped up in two precious ladies. The faith, peace of heart, and high expectations they have had as they have (between the two of them) faced: A husband's serious illness and hospitalization, a personal stroke and emergency open heart surgery; Within the last year finding out she was at Stage 4 of cancer, Going through Chemo and, today, having the upper portion of her cancerous lung removed (with a prognosis of soon being cancer free! ) etc., etc. ... have blessed me beyond words. It is a privilege to be their pastor and wife. And, praise the Lord, He brought them both through safely and all seems to be going well for both of them. God is good!

What is really awesome is how Jim's secular job at Kennametal "closed down" the past two days, allowing him to be able to be with these two ladies! They had a major electrical problem at the plant which has shut them down until Sunday! God always works all things together for the good!

Well, before anyone else calls to send us out running again, Jim is finally getting a chance to mow the lawn and I better do some more laundry and clean!

I continue to think on what the lady with cancer said concerning the 23rd Psalm, the week prior to her cancer surgery: "God does not say he will deliver us from the "valley of the shadow of death" but he does promise to be with us through the valley ... all the way." It has given a whole new enlightenment to me on a passage of scripture I have read and quoted most of my life. Isn't God good? WOW!