Mike's Faith Journey

Happy New Year to everyone.  We hope  you had a Merry Christmas.

  Aaron has been so great about keeping up this blog, but he is leaving tomorrow for YWAM (Youth with a Mission) in Tampa, FL.  He will be gone for 5 months so he showed me how to update the blog.  (Please be patient if some postings are weird. ) We will miss him terribly, but know God has led him there and that he will grow in the knowledge of the Lord and in his music ministry.  He has to raise his own support, and has managed to raise enough for the first 3 months internship in Tampa.  Then  they will go on the mission field for two months to Malaysia and Thailand.  He has composed a CD that he will be sending to anyone who has or will donate to his Mission Trip.

First, here are a few pictures taken on Christmas Day.  Mike decided to be Santa, much to the worry of our dog Sam.

And I saw some Christmas ornaments depicting music, which reminded me of Aaron.  But, of course, he decided to hang them from his ears rather than on the Christmas tree.

As you may have guessed, no one in our family poses for a normal picture.

I think having a sense of humor has helped carry Mike (and Aaron and I also) through some very tough weeks.  After Mike's prostate infection cleared up, he had a kidney stone start its LONG journey through the birthing canal (as one doctor put it).  Passing a kidney stone has been likened to giving birth as far as pain is concerned.  This one took two weeks.  Because the pain was so bad, Mike had to take pain pills.  No one told him every time he took a pain pill, to take stool softeners.  So...he then developed painful hemorrhoids.  He has been bed ridden for two weeks, but has kept his sense of humor and strong faith in God.  He started his intravenous alpha lipoic acid treatment on Monday, has had 10 treatments and will have 6 more next week.  We are believing these treatments will strengthen him enough to start the interferon treatments sometime in January.

So our Prayer Request to you is to heal the kidney stone pain, and hemorrhoids, and to strengthen him enough to start the long journey on interferon.  Apart from God just healing Mike, the interferon is the only hope to rid his body of Hep C.

We will keep you informed of his progress and would like to leave you with this uplifting scripture.
"God will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him, because you trust in Him."
Isaiah 26:3

Thank you for your support and prayers.  May God bless you richly.