Friday, December 26, 2008

Dennis has pretty much slept through Christmas.  I am so thankful that he has been able to rest and sleep most of the time.  He continues to improve a bit with each day.  He got up for a few minutes Christmas "afternoon" and enjoyed watching Megan open her present.  After he had come out of his coma, he had asked that Megan get her dream camera for Christmas.  A sweet friend helped me get to the store to purchase it and then took it home to wrap it for me.   Thanks to Sandra, Megan had the biggest smile we have seen in quite a while!  After opening her present, Dennis was exhausted and went back to bed pleased his baby was so happy!  Dennis is such a great daddy!  :) 

Even Megan and I have been really tired lately, so our whole family has been pretty worthless the last couple of days.  Today, Dennis and I prayed together and listened to a few worship songs before going off to sleep.  What a joy that was!  Continue to pray for patience for him as he needs to allow his body lots of sleep and time to heal.  He continues to be on pain meds and four other prescriptions through the day and night.  PTL!  We have been able to cut down on his pain medicine quite  a bit.  

This evening he has a terrible headache and his left eye is bothering him, but seems to have settled down.

Merry Christmas to all and thank you so much for your continued love and support.  

We are reminded today in Ps 34 to "taste and see that the Lord He is good."  It is in these

difficult times that we can truly see how good God is.  We so rejoice today in His goodness to us.

God is close to the brokenhearted and saves us from our troubles.  Wow!  I have never experienced this so strongly as I have these passed three weeks!  I was asked today if I would be willing to go through all of this again to grow and feel such strength in the Lord.  The answer is...humanly, an emphatic absolutely not!  But I think God that this evil act has been used for good and that we have grown through our experiences and difficult times.  As we face trying times, our choice is to fall apart or trust God has a plan and will take care of us.  I choose to continue to look to God and look forward to what tomorrow brings.  May God receive all the glory!  Love you all!

Mendy