Our Hope

Tomorrow will make one week since David was discharged from the hospital. We are so very thankful to be home together.

We are still getting settled into a schedule with home health care. We should have someone in to help every weekday; nursing, physical and occupational therapy. David’s dressing for his wound VAC gets changed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He is currently bedridden but we are hopeful as he regains some strength and energy that he will be able to walk again. He no longer reads because of the difficulty in focusing and concentrating and because his eye sight has worsened. I know this has not been easy for him. He has always spent so much time reading the Bible and Christian authors. If you have ever been in our home you know the value we place on reading. The Lord has blessed us and grown us more by good authors than any other means apart from the Word itself.

I talked with David’s oncologist today. We both feel the most pressing need for David right now is to heal from his recent colon surgery and complications. Once we see some more healing of the wound and once David regains some energy and strength we will schedule a brain MRI and then a follow-up appointment to decide future treatment. He is no longer on blood thinners for stroke prevention nor on chemo for the brain tumors. Our trust is in the Lord.

Lingering suffering of someone you love is not easy to watch. I know we are not unique. There are many people all over the world in the same situation, some with hope like us, others with no hope. As hard as this is, I can’t imagine going through this without the One who gives us a sure hope.

David and I spend some time most mornings and evenings together with me reading from the Word or a devotional like Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening and then praying together. We have found great encouragement in reminding ourselves of God’s promises to us.

“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him. The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.” Lamentations 3:22-26

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.” Hebrews 6:19

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,” I Peter 1:3

“Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him.” Job 13:15

If you do not have this living hope, our prayer is that somehow God would use our journey to draw you to Himself.

David and Pam