Friday, March 5, 2010

This is absolutely ridiculous!!! I haven't posted since February 23???? NOT GOOD!!!!! Again....I apologize. This isn't the first time that I've lost track of time and neglected my duty to post on this blog. Business, work, and the chaos in between the two have me pulled in so many directions!!!! To make up for the long absence....I do have an awesome story to share. I call it a "Job moment". You know in Job when the devil told God that if He removed His hedge from around Job and his family, Job would surely curse God? (Job 1:6-12) During our last month of visits to the Jimmy Fund (www.jimmyfund.org), the pediatric Cancer clinic that is treating Chandler after her bone marrow transplant, her 2 liver function numbers have been steadily increasing. The range of normal is 45 -50, but on February 23 (ironically, the last day I posted) the numbers were 922 and 1270!!! (I told you - chaos!!!) The doctors took a ton of blood from her on Thursday, February 25 to test. On Tuesday March 2, they told me in a somber tone that she had Hepatitis B. We went through how this was possible with the possibility that I and her brother may also have the disease. They took more blood on the 2nd to confirm their initial tests, but our plan was to begin medicines to treat Hepatitis B on Thursday, March 4. Now, I wasn't upset at all - or at least not as upset as you would have thought I should have been. I know that God is a Healer. He's healed my mother, me, and my daughter from various illnesses and diseases in the past. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8 NIV), so I knew that He was fully capable of taking care of this situation as well. I have learned that anytime you are doing what God has called you to do, the devil gets mad and tries to throw a monkey wrench in the mix. But much like Job, my faith in God never wavered, and during the visit on March 2, they confirmed that it was a false positive - there was no Hepatitis B!!! What could I do but give God glory??? The devil didn't know what I would do - he thought that I would surely curse God to His face (Job 1:11b). I'm not even sure that if presented with the situation hypothetically, I knew what I would do. But when faced with this disastrous news, I looked to the hills from whence cometh my help (Psalm 121:1). My help cometh from the Lord, and he has never let me down!!!!

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