Update April 9, 2017

I want to thank you all for praying for my family and I as we have been battling through sickness the past few weeks. I think we are all in the clear with the flu which is a blessing and I was so thankful to have my Mom come in last Saturday to help. On Friday Scott and I decided to take advantage of my Mom being in town and had a little staycation. Unfortunately what was suppose to be a restful time turned into a trip to the ER. I have been having abdominal pain off and on since before I left Germany. It only happens randomly and feels like spasms and cramping in my right side and back. Friday night and early into Saturday morning I had an attack that wouldn't go away. So we headed to the ER. After a thorough ultrasound it seemed I had a slight blockage in my intestines, but more importantly they found spots on my liver. I was given a CT scan and it was confirmed that I have lesions that very well could be cancerous on my liver. This was a complete shock to us as I thought I was doing well and the tumor under my armpit had been slowly shrinking.

I will be setting up an appointment with my Oncologist as soon as possible for him to look over the scans and give me his opinion. As you can imagine Scott and I have been trying to process this new information and feeling the gamut of emotions that such news brings. I am still weak from being sick for so long and have been struggling to eat enough. This new news makes it even hard for me to want to eat, or do much of anything for that matter.

I know it goes without being said but we desperately need your prayers right now! I know many of you will probably want to call or reach out but if you don't get a call back please know that we are tired and need to just be focusing on our family right now. I love all of you but visits and rehashing is draining and hard. Please understand.

I don't understand or know what God is doing right now and to be honest I'm scared and overwhelmed at times. I know though that I have not been abandoned, that my Redeemer is working out HIS perfect will through this dark time, and his love will never ever leave me.

Would you please join in prayer for all of us! Here are some specific ways you can pray...

~Pray boldly for complete and total healing of my body.

~Pray that I would want to eat, and have the energy to do what I need to keep myself as well as possible during this time.

~Pray for us to have energy, peace, joy, love for ourselves, and our children.

~Please pray for our children as we try to explain what is going on, that the Lord would give us wisdom and give them peace.

~ Pray that we can order our days well and find a rhythm that works for us.

~Pray for doctors appointments and figuring out the next step we need to take with my care.

~Pray that God would be glorified through all of this and through my life.

"Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls--

 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 

 The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills. To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments. "

                                                                                 ~Habakkuk 3:17-19