update on Pop's

Travel to Houston. Get checked by the specialists. Get Chemo. Tired. Week off. Work, Family, church, peace. Get Chemo. Tired. Week off, work family, Church, peace. This has been the routine for the past year with our Family. No, we don't all have Cancer, but we do. Dad, is the one with Physical ailment, and our family, friends, community enters into his story with him, so in a sense we all have this need for healing. It has become our story. There have been times when all we need is sleep, there is times that all we need is peace, and there is times when all we need is Laughter; we have experienced this: the fullness of the Christ lived out inside of community.

We now come to yet another time when our back is to the invading army and directly in front is the Red Sea. This is a place where have been before, its a place that we looked to God and he made provisions, we see the stones that have been laid out that mark this point where God did the impossible. To speak vividly, the cancer has subsided and there has been no new growth. This was were we first were at the Red Sea, now here we stand at another place where we need God to speak, to provided, to send provision from above. This time its a surgery on the Liver/Colon. This time the outlook is better, but by no means allows us to think we can do it by ourselves. We still, call on the name of the Lord in our time of need, and we rely on the peace of the spirit, and the community in the midst of our trial. For truly, Dad is not one person with a illness, yet we are a family, a community, a people of God on the move. We all have illness, we all need the daily food, we all need each other.

The technicality, Liver resection and Colon resection over a month period. This procedure is been preformed a total of 10 times at the cancer research center. As of today we just know the time frame is 2-3 weeks, and the prognosis is good.