I just had to get on here to personally thank you for all your prayers for me and my family. It is soooooo great to be home and away from the hospital. I am doing great! THANK YOU LORD!! I'm so thankful I'm off pain pills since morning and Tylenol is keeping the pain away...so blessed!!
It's hard to find better and more meaning full words than "Thank You"...the meals, call, cards, and e.mails are so beautifully written with such warmth and encouragement.
The other reason I wanted to share with you was what happened when I opened my devotional this morning and saw the title: Heal Me!! It's written by Joni Eareckson Tada:
Heal Me
Read Jeremiah 17:12-18
"Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." Jeremiah 17:14
In the early days of my injury my father would come to the hospital every day and whisper to me with wet eyes, "In every day and in every way, you're getting better and better and better."
He'd say it every time he came. (Donna's note....if you don't know... Joni as a teenager jumped in a lake and broke her neck.)
But my body never did shake off the paralysis. The pragmatist would say, "See , your father's words were wishful thinking. You didn't get better, Joni; instead you got stuck with a wheelchair."
That's not the way I choose to look at it. Daddy was right. Every day I did get better. Maybe not on the outside but on the inside. My soul became settled. My hope became clear. This is the sort of healing described here: "Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." God is interested in healing the inside of a person. For me, a healed and happy heart is the best "better". By a long shot!
Path to Prayer: Pray that the Great Physician will bring healing to you, whether in mind, body or spirit or all of these. Praise him for his goodness and kindness to you and for keeping you in his presence. Thank him very specifically for the blesings he has brought into your life!!
Oh my....specifically.....let me count the ways.....God's love, peace and mercy for each of us, family and friends like you, and ONLY GOD COULD PLAN THIS DEVOTIONAL FOR ME TODAY!!
I'm thankful I"m keeping the pneumonia away...just a very low grade temp at evening. I'm drinking tons of water and taking lots of vitamins and blowing in my breathing machine to inflate my lungs. Dr. Baker would be proud of me!! He came in the second day and say, "Vacation's over it's out of the bed, walking and blowing in my machine!!
My main prayer request now is that when the final pathology report is back (maybe tomorrow) there will not be any other cancer in the breast tissue that wasn't expected!
Gotta close for know and rest for the night!
God loves you and so do WE!!
4 comments:
Hello Donna, I can't believe you were able to type already! It is good to hear from you and am so glad that you are doing so well. God is certainly looking after you isn't HE? Take care and get strong. Peggy H
Hello from Austin, TX!
Wow! I am so elated to hear that you are back home. How fabulous and comforting that must be. Plus to hear that you only need Tylenol. You must be giddy with joy. Pass out hugs to everyone from the Saucedo family. Take peace in knowing that you are covered in prayer.
Blessings!
Holly Saucedo and family
Hello from Austin, TX!
Wow! I am so elated to hear that you are back home. How fabulous and comforting that must be. Plus to hear that you only need Tylenol. You must be giddy with joy. Pass out hugs to everyone from the Saucedo family. Take peace in knowing that you are covered in prayer.
Blessings!
Holly Saucedo and family
Oh Donna, I am so glad to hear you are back at the resort! I hope that my description of your recovery period was accurate and that your pain has not been unbearable (once they got that pain pump to work properly!) I love the "Joni" story you wrote about. I am going to copy it and send it to my neice, Peggy who started back on chemo yesterday. Go spend some time relaxing in one of the chairs next to the river and read a good book while breathing in all that wonderful mountain air...I can almost smell it now! I will never forget you or our visit to Idelwilde! - cathy mallow
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