Here's an excerpt from an email to my aunt this morning... I got on a bit of a faith bender, and thought it worth sharing here.
Exhaustification set in at the end of the work day and I came home and was a lump on the couch for the remainder of the evening.
Our weather is full-on winter the second half of this weekend: lows in the teens, windchills near zero and a high in the low 30’s...
Jessica LeeAnn officially was accepted into a state nursing program starting this fall. It comes over ten years later than I had expected after the many twists and turns of her health journey. I’ve known others who have suffered from the same maladies who gave into fear and uncertainty as their lives dissolved into hopelessness. Jessica has valiantly fought her diseases, failed technology, mistakes and many disappointing outcomes at hospitals, inept actions by insurance companies, poor government decisions, and all the while she resisted the temptation to abandon hope when her own body and mind abandoned her.
She continues to push against memory issues caused by the many years of seizure activity and the side-effects of maximum doses of medication, making her successes that much more poignant. May God bless her as she continues to apply herself day and night to study without making any excuses for herself while pitching in to support her grandparents, siblings and parents AND while working at a professional level sufficient to afford a new car, pay her share of rent and expenses, all the while faithfully participating in Bible studies, church and small group meetings.
I watch this college town of Boone full of all the angst, self-pity and pathetically soul-sick who are physically and mentally diseased, corrupt with all the immorality that modern America produces and I wonder how I’ve been so blessed with a quiver full of children applying themselves to studies, marriage, parenting and professions while pursuing lives of faith and hope and overcoming love. I consider God’s faithfulness, providence and many miracles through the life and times of our family as a third book of Chronicles: far from perfect, but a story of being perfected by it’s Author who ain’t finished yet. This isn’t about putting positive spin on a story, this is what happens as our Redeemer redeems, our Savior saves and Our Provider makes a way when there seems to be no way. Yes and Amen.
"You are
Way maker,
miracle worker,
promise keeper
Light in the darkness
My God, that is who You are"
~Osinachi Kalu Okoro Egbu
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