Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing,
but to turn it into glory.” --Phillip Yancey
You have now walked with us for 3 months following Kristi's surgery.
Thank you!
Kristi says, "Three months down......nine more to go!!"
I flew in on Sunday to give my siblings a break from caretaking for the week. I knew Kristi would visibly show improvement, but she shocked me when she got up off the couch by herself and just took off walking to the kitchen without her walker. I was so excited to see her walk and not shuffle and be hunched over!!
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| Danina, Joshua, and Kristi Kristi has enjoyed the sunshine. She sits in a protected area on her front porch and can watch the kids play and enjoy her ice tea. I've been cooking with lots of the ingredients provided for the Wrights, and Kristi has been eating really well this week! We take walks across their grass so her body can get used to uneven ground, and today she set a goal to walk to her 2nd neighbors mailbox and made it! |
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| Kristi had a major new workout this week with her Physical Therapist. Her kids were so excited when she told them that she had "played basketball" that day. Chris had her put a basketball on the floor while sitting down and then stand up and hold it over her head. Then they walked outside and shot a few baskets to use new muscles. She has appreciated Chris' creativity in helping her with objects around the house..... and this was one that brought the children into it and made them happy! She did fall asleep early last night and slept all night and late this morning to recover!! : ) |
Monday was an emotional day for Kristi full of ups and downs. She went from getting the news that a woman she met through her cancer posse at church had lost her battle with breast cancer, to receiving news that a long time friend of our family wanted to help them monthly with the exact amount of their house payment. She had no knowledge of the amount of their house payment either!! God is so awesome in how He goes before us. This removes some of the stress if their house does not sell immediately. Please join us in praying for the family of Martina Peacock and in praising God yet again for HIS provision through His people. We are also feeling the weight of our other friends struggling with cancer and difficult news. We would love to ask you to also pray for encouragement and strength for Toni Simmons from our home town of Meeker, CO and our new little friend Julia Cobb we met at MDA. They are both on facebook under Toni's Story and Jucan and both started with Ewing's Sarcoma.
Martina's faith amidst cancer impacted Kristi. When Martina first attended a Hope in Him Cancer Encouragement Group, she shared a beautiful prayer that she and her husband prayed every day. It was full of promises from God's word and Kristi held onto part of those words as she journeyed forward. Another woman in the group reminded Kristi that one of Martina's scriptures was from 2 Cor. 4......
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Martina and many others in this cancer group desire more than anything for God to be glorified and Jesus to be known....whether in life or in death.
May we all live with this perspective with whatever suffering God allows in our own stories.
------- Danina
“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
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