Hi, Dave and Irene! God has blessed us with a wonderful, scenic vacation so far. Glacier National Park overflowed with waterfalls, creeks, rivers, and beauty. We tried a “short” hike…not “short” enough as Marsha soon starting asking where the oxygen tanks were. =) We arrived at Yellowstone this evening and are thankful to be able to check your website again. Thank you for sharing and for inspiring! God be with you, dear friends.
Love, Kent and Marsha
8 p.m…
Do you ever feel like you’ve “hit the wall”? Perhaps one of these areas may sound or feel familiar to you…
• Emotional… where you’re absolutely overwhelmed with the challenge you’re facing and the emotional swings are so wide that it’s hard to grasp reality and understand HOW to move forward…Feelings GRIP the moment and paralyze any movement at all…
• Physical energy or pain…where you find yourself asking the question, “The challenge in front of me is so great…HOW can I find the strength to keep on going?”
• Financial…where you’re wondering HOW and where the resources are going to come from in order to meet and overcome the significant obstacles that you’re facing..?
Maybe I am completely alone on these sorts of issues, but I think not. I confess that there have been periodic times in the last three months where I have personally felt that I had “hit the wall” in one area or another. I may have known WHAT I have to do from an intellectual standpoint. That’s the easy part. But for me, many times the challenge is not WHAT to do but HOW to go about doing it!!!! As the primary caregiver and bread-winner, HOW do I navigate successfully through this ordeal facing Irene and our family called Primary Amyloidosis?
Here’s a word picture: I am watching Irene face a physical, emotional and spiritual Mount Everest climb with very little equipment and appropriate cold weather clothing. But there is no escaping the journey that she must take. The defining question is “HOW is she doing it”? HOW does she draw upon yet to be realized, resources for a journey that is long, hard and potentially impossible to reach?
Following her challenge are my challenges as I setup “base camps” along the way…
• ”HOW do I support Irene during this process?”
o What does she need?
o How does it get delivered?
• How do we get life back to some sense of normalcy? … and can we?
We don’t have the answer, but we are learning the answer.
And here it is: “GOD INCREASES OUR CAPACITY TO POSSESS HIM”.
As we appropriate biblical faith into
I am so elated that Irene is now home. The smile on her face watering her garden says a lot. I have to concur with your sister in law that I feel that my faith has also grown in part due to reading all of the well wishes sent and all of your updates. I thank you for that. Please know that you are in my heart and prayers and I look forward to seeing you soon.
“Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” -Lamentations 3:22-23
