Living & Learning: 03/2008

2008/03/30

Update on Johnny

Johnny did have his surgery on Thursday. The tumor was bleeding too much and they were only able to remove 20% of it. He still has bleeding in his head and they are draining the blood with a tube coming out of his head. He is not moving his right side at all so far. This could be because of the swelling in his head, noone is sure yet. Right now we just have to wait, noone knows the next step yet. That is the physical part of it.
Spiritually~ Parents really need prayer. May they see God for who he is.

2008/03/25

Our nephew has a brain tumor!

A few weeks ago as 12 year old Johnny was getting ready to go with his parents to buy a birthday cake for him, he suddenly fell backwards and had a seizure. He was rushed to the hospital, but sent home shortly after being told he was fine.
His parents were not convinced that he was ok and he was different after that. One dr.decided to do a cat scan and found a tumor about the size of a golf ball near the memory part of his brain! He was again rushed to the hospital, put on medication and more test were done.
This was last Wednesday. Thursday morning it was decided that he could go home and come back after Easter. Surgery was set for Thursday.
By Sat. a day before Easter he got very sick, vomitting, headaches....and they took him back. he is still there on meds. and surgery will still be this coming Thursday as far as we all know now. It will be a long and risky surgery. They will only be able to remove part of the tumor by the sounds of things, and he will have kemo therapy yet.
Once they have removed it we will also find out if it is cancerous.
Please pray for Johnny. I will keep you all updated on his condition.
Thank you all!

Nancy

2008/03/11

Winter Wonderland

We got so much snow this weekend! It was messy in a way but beautiful! I do however look forward to summer again! Things have been busy for me but a good busy I think. I don't even try blogging much because of our slow computer issues, which will change as soon as we get our tax refund, I hope!:) Jamie has been trying to do some research for a school project on the internet and it is pretty much impossible. So we need to do something about our dial up situation and get this thing cleaned out. Well I off to bed. Goodnight!

Praise the Lord for all He has done!

Life saving Verses

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,—Romans 3:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 6:23

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,—John 1:12

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.—John 3:16-17

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.—Ephesians 2:8-9

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”—Romans 10:9-13

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.—1 Peter 1:8-9

Saved By Grace

All of us are born sinful. People might do good things but we are not born good....because to be good would mean to be perfect, never breaking God's commands, always doing God's will. So first we have to acknowledge that we have all sinned. Then we can cry out to God for mercy and forgiveness and repentance. God has paid the price of sin through Jesus who died on the cross for our sins. If we believe in Jesus, confess our sins and turn from it, He will forgive us.The bible says to seek God and search for Him with your whole heart. If we do this and ask Him to fill us with the holy Spirit, He will and that gives us a new life. This is what it means to be born again. There is no other gift as great as the gift of the holy Spirit! We then will want the things of God. We will love God and He will become the most important thing.This does not mean now you will be perfect. This just means that God will teach you and show you day by day what he wants or does not want you to do. It will not make life easy, and there will still be temptations and mistakes. So we just have to continually pray and ask for His guidance.When a baby is born they need time to grow and learn . It does not happen all at once. The same thing when we are born again, we will grow each day, and become more like Jesus. God will show us bit by bit. Only God is able to do all this in our lives. .It is not the things we do that make us Christian, it is faith. We can not make ourselves Christians no matter how hard we try. By faith though he will bring us to Himself and we will want to live the way God wants us to and the things we are doing will often show that we are Christians. God will make us a light in the dark because of what he has done in our lives.