Prayers offered.
9:00 am EDT 7 January 2007
Good Morning my FRiends,
Dad isn't doing so well this morning, all he wants to do is sleep, and isn't as responsive as he was. His doctor seems to think that his time is nearing an end. It is impossible to say if Dad will be with us another day, or another week, month or more - which is as it is with any of us for our lives are predetermined by Almighty God.
I continue to believe that our Great Physician might yet work a miracle with my Dad, and I will hold on to that belief. I remember when my GrandDad passed on, I was young and naive but my mind believed that if I could but put my hand on my GrandDad's shoulder even when he was in his casket, that I could raise him up through the Power of Christ, why? Because I read it in the Bible, and I wanted that more than anything on this Earth at that time.
Needless to say, my efforts were 'less than hoped for'.
What my immature mind did not understand is that our human wants and needs cannot trump the Greater Plan which is God's, and God's alone. He alone gives life, and He alone determines how much of it each of us shall have.
So, I will hold on to what I concede might be considered a childlike and naive belief and faith that Dad might still pull out of this, but I must also accept and temper my desire with the reality that God's Will indeed, shall be Done.
I thank you all for your continued prayers and thoughts, Mom is doing pretty good I have to say, she told me this morning not to worry about her because in her own words she said "Your Mother is a tough cookie", and indeed she is.
May the Lord Bless you and keep you all.
Mark