Update on Karen September 15, 2016

Important Test Tomorrow

Karen and I want to once again thank you for your prayers and friendship. Do you have any idea how often I have thanked you for these two precious things over the last nineteen months of being on the cancer journey. Your prayers and your friendship are blessings that have encouraged us and helped us in ways that you will never imagine. Thank you dear friends.

We have something that we need to pass along and ask for prayer once again. Over the last several months Karen has experienced times of progressively not feeling well. The doctors have been monitoring her hoping that she would start soon to feel better since it has been a while since she has been off her chemotherapy and a particular medication to strengthen her bones. But she hasn’t gotten better. In fact, sometimes she feels pretty sick.

So tomorrow morning she will have an ultrasound to check her gallbladder for stones. If this doesn’t prove to be the cause of the pain and nausea, then an endoscope will be scheduled. I know this is really going to sound funny. However, would you pray that it is gall stones! We would much rather deal with gall stones than to have it be cancer that has spread.

Thank you so much for your willingness to join us in prayer. If you measure the wealth of people by their friends, then Karen and I are fabulously rich. Our Father owns everything and if that were not enough, He has blessed us with the dearest friends in the entire world.

I have been preaching Wednesday evenings at the First Baptist Church of Elyria. I have been personally reminded over and over that in one of the most dreadful and confusing times of David’s life, he declared “You are my God” (Psalm 143: 10) and “I am your servant” (Psalm 143:12). Karen and I want to follow David’s example and have such settled trust. The ownership is settled. We are His servants. Thanks for praying about this test with us. I will let you know just as soon as we find out.