Dave, thanks for your faithful, inspiring, and adoring updates…I read them as often as I can to inform my prayers for Irene. Your words of affection for Irene and your inspiring insights continue to be a hearty hug from God each day I am able to log on. Bless you for your enduring gift of faith, your networking, and your ability to behold future possibilities even before they are on anyone else’s radar.

Irene, YOU ARE IN MY PRAYERS AND ALWAYS IN MY HEART. I will especially be praying about this new issue with the fistulla…I pray for you when I drive to work, when I wake up in the middle of the night, whenever I see something in the garden I know you would love, anytime I see purple (our front and back yard are flowered in purple in honor of you), and whenever I see young women that remind me of your precious daughters…I am contending for healing, for courage, for freedom from pain, and for blessings galore in your life. I love you sister.