Moving to Skilled Nursing Facility

David will be moving this afternoon to Blue Ridge Health Care Center in Raleigh. The doctor's felt he needed this transition period for healing and to regain some strength before coming home.


Yesterday was a very hard day for me emotionally. David in this facility means leaving him at night and letting someone else care for him. This is a deeper surrender God is asking of me. Can I trust God to take care of David when I'm not there? Easy to say, harder to do. Over 25 years ago the Lord asked a similar thing of me with my children. We were missionaries in Senegal and I was wrestling with leaving our children in boarding school, two days away from us. It was not easy, but by the grace and strength of God I surrendered to God's will. God has shown me many times through the years how He used that experience to shape all of us; David, me and the children, into what we are today. God does not waste any experience. His goal is to mold us into the image of His Son. He is still doing that today in all of us - David, me and our children. Sometimes the molding is painful, but always for our good.

Prayer Requests:

• It is never too late, in this life, to pray for complete healing - from brain cancer, blindness from stroke, colostomy reversal. - but always submitted to the will of God.
  
• Continued wound healing for David. This also includes the colostomy, which is healing slower than normal.
  
• Regaining strength so that he is able to sit up by himself, stand, and walk.
  
• For our witness and testimony with the other patients and medical staff.
  
• I said a few days ago that God was not finished with David. We believe God is putting David in this place so that the Gospel and the hope of eternal life can be shared with those he will meet.
  
• That he will be able to come home again, much stronger than he is now.

Thank you all for your many cards, emails, FB comments, phones calls. They have been such a blessing and encouragement to us.

May God be glorified in our lives.

Pam