In the midst of a storm-comes a ray of sunshine!

Phillipians 4: 6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

God we are thanking you this morning for a good report. In the midst of our storm that began to fall Friday morning at Rehab, you gave us a ray of sunshine yesterday to let us know that your work with our dad is not done - in fact, it has just begun. Dad did not sleep the first 24hours of his re-entry to the hospital Friday, only a little bit. So yesterday he slept several hours during the day - when he awoke - he was a little disoriented and nervous. I have to admit - after having been here since friday at 11am, I was a bit nervous and tense too. So with the help of a friend, I began speaking the scripture above over and over and over. And then something amazing happened. . . read the next verse.

Phillipians 4:7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

And that is what happened - we began to feel some peace come over all of us, including dad. His vitals became stable and he began to speak more confidently saying, "I think they might be able to fix me." Then his physical therapist came in to do some bedside therapy and the most encouraging ray of sunshine came into our day. Dad was able to lift his LEFT LEG up from the bed 4 times! Thank you Lord - because you hear our prayers and answer them in the darkest of hours and give us the encouragement we need to sustain us thru the storm.

We are not sure how many days they will keep dad here - but I am sure they want to keep him until they feel he is out of the woods with the pulmonary embolism condition (clots). Then hopefully we'll get back over to rehab and be able to continue our journey back to health there.

Now we can see that this trip back here was not a "setback" - but a step up. Yes, we did have a life-threatening experience, but our faith was increased as we believed in God to help dad thru this storm - and out of it we received even more evidence that God is right there beside of Dad. We are celebrating today that dad has had signficant movement on his left side. He was just showing off for us. He's been asking for his Jeannie since I arrived at 6am. When mom arrived at 7am, his face lit up like a Christmas tree. She held his left hand and massaged it a little and then said ok shug, let's see you move it. And right away, he wriggle his fingers. THANK YOU GOD. . . I'm so glad you are in control!

(Sorry for the chapter book here today - just so happy - and want to share our good news.)