Days of Dread

These are the days we dread.
As I write, Dawn is lying on one of those awful, jackknife hospital chairs/beds or up caring for the needs of her mother.  Barbara, my mother-in-law, is suffering from the symptoms of a powerful, innovative chemo drug that can cause irreversible symptoms.   The chemo campaign has now been called off. We, instead, pray for appetite, strength, settling of the system, and proper medical support. As I said, these are days we dread.

If the symptoms can calm down soon, we will be in a wait to give the chemo the time it needs to take effect and then a PET scan will follow to check the status in the fight.  However, we now earnestly pray for a great settling and stabilization.

Many have been through it.  Maybe all go through it. I guess so, but that does not take the weight off in the midst of it.  What do you do in the midst of the storm? I find my strength in The Lord and I give Him praise for reminding me to look to Him in all things.  He did this morning through Ps.121.

Psalm  121 

I lift up my eyes to the hills.
    From where does my help come?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.

³ He will not let your foot be moved;
    he who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴ Behold, he who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The Lord is your keeper;
    the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
⁶ The sun shall not strike you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

⁷ The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
⁸ The Lord will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.

No matter the weight of this old world, thank God we re not alone.  He knows our needs and can provide every time.   To God be the Glory and please pray for my wife, her mother, brother, and Dad.  

Thanks.