This morning was great...I got to sleep in a bit...go for a walk..and then it was time to finish the housework I SHOULD have finished yesterday...but I was home alone and decided to be lazy just a little bit longer....so I did...and I got to see the most wonderful sight I could have imagined...my sweet father-in-law on his tractor...this is a picture of him...Why is that such a big deal...we are rapidly approaching Oct...which will be the make of one year...that expect for a few dr appointments Willie was not able to leave the farm...or ride the 4 wheeler or the tractor...his was in so much pain...with no answers for such a long long time...we prayed for answers that simply seemed to not come as we watched him...get weaker and weaker and more discouraged by the day...Christmas came with such a odd "feeling" with the Griffith family last year...a feeling we didn't or don't really discuss...but one that we were very much afraid of....then the week following Christmas came the diagnosis of cancer...such a scary word...and many months of watching poppa fight and yet seem so defeat...but the strength that Linda...prayed over him...and willed into him...was amazing to watch...she said during this time..."I'm the mouth of this family but his is the glue...I think she sells herself short just a tad!...I think maybe out of the that mouth comes a little glue too!!!!
As, over all, a family who knows the Lord, we would agree that we understand that when we pray...asking God to heal people...that HE always hears...and He always heals...just sometimes not the way we, in our flesh desire...but He hears just the same...for the healing HE has brought our poppa's way we are so thankful...as Christmas approaches as again this year for the Griffith family...I believe there will be another "feeling"...a feeling of gratitude...of thankfulness...and I pray a feeling of "awe" and praise for the Lord..and his mercies that are new every morning...and for THIS morning and the the sight I got to see...THANK YOU LORD!
