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Answered Prayers: Jax the Kitten REPRINT

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From November 24, 2017

See that great big black cat sleeping with his best friend, the pit bull, on the sofa?

That big cat, some months ago, was Jax the little kitten, picked up by my stepdaughter Georgia in the middle of a storm, adopted, and found to be at death’s door, due to a serious blood condition requiring immediate treatment–including a transfusion of very rare donor blood, etc.

Many of us prayed for Jax, and now you can see the result.

It’s become fashionable these days, in a fallen world populated by sinners who have free will and atrociously abuse it, to say that prayer is futile, waste of breath, just won’t work–even some who call themselves Christians are saying that prayer is just a waste of time. And who has never had that thought cross his mind?

But this fine healthy cat is here because a woman had compassion on him, and acted on it, and because God heard our prayers and did the rest.

Rejoice, give thanks, and sing.

I’m Tired!

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I hope you don’t mind if I knock off for the afternoon. I’m really tired.

My friend and editor Susan is doing much better now, so that’s good news: the hospital stay is doing a lot of good. And the medicine my doctor prescribed for me this weekend, that’s working, hooray–I’m already walking a lot better than I was. Plus we had a bit of snow, and I enjoyed it.

I’ll be back after supper with the usual critter video. Until then, tsai-chien (Chinese for see yiz later).

Robbie Report

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Hooray! Huzzah! I’ve never been so happy in all my life to see a bunch of cat poop in the litter box. Robbie managed it this morning. Now if we could just get her to eat more, we should be home free. Thank you, Jesus! And thanks, everyone, for your prayers.

Yes, I’m running late. We had to go grocery shopping and then pick up Patty’s car, which now has a new transmission. It still needs some body work, but now at least it won’t fall apart if she drives it.

I also took advantage of the sunny weather to write another little bit of Ozias, Prince Enthroned. I doubt it’s possible to finish it this year, so I’ll just go as far as I can until the winter shuts me down. After all, I have two earlier books awaiting publication–Oceans of Time, and Ozias, Prince in Peril.

So far, today is just the kind of good day we’ve been needing.

I hope yours is, too.

Rejoice! (Robbie Report)

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Hallelujah, thank you, Jesus! We have lift-off!

Robbie has just pooped for the first time all week. It’s a great relief! Now if we can just get her back to eating, we’re home free.

Thank you all for your prayers!

Answered Prayers (For Erlene)

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For those of you who missed it in the Comments, our dear sister Erlene is still with us. She had a stroke and has been mostly confined to bed all week–but she’s still here, and that counts for very much. Thank you, Father in Heaven. We pray now for Erlene’s recovery.

Meanwhile, please pray for my wife, Patty. She seems to have a hernia, and may face surgery. We won’t know much until a doctor can examine her.

New Book, an Answered Prayer

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I asked the Lord to give me a title for my new book about the life of King Ozias–and He gave me three titles for three books! 1. Ozias, Prince in Peril 2. Ozias, Prince Enthroned 3. Ozias,King Betrayed. Wow!

In the first book, Ozias is a boy in Lintum Forest, hunted by usurpers who want to kill him and his mother, Queen Parella. In the second, an older Ozias recovers the throne that is rightfully his and writes the Sacred Songs. In the third, his enemies drive him from his throne: but God does not abandon him.

So it’s going to be a trilogy, and I can’t wait to start typing it up. The Lord has given me a whole raft of ideas for it. Hallelujah!

I would do a cartwheel, but I’m afraid my pants might split.

Good News for Robbie (Answered Prayers)

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No trace of cancer! “It’s like a miracle,” the surgeon said.

Thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus, and thanks to all of you, our friends, who prayed for us. Once again, prayer comes through.

As for the sneezing and wheezing, Robbie got an antibiotic injection for that, and special nose drops (how did they manage that?), and she’ll start eating normally again once the medicine kicks in. The reason she wasn’t eating, the doctor said, was because of this: she couldn’t smell her food. Did you know that?

Now we can rest a bit. I’ll find some comfort in polishing Witch Box chapters and just hanging out with our cats.

Tomorrow it’s Peep’s turn. She has a cold; they’ll take care of it.

Now we can concentrate on prayers for Patty and Phoebe.

The Peep Report (She’ll Be Okay!)

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We thank you, O Lord, for the mercy you show to us who call upon your name: and we thank all of you in our blog fellowship who joined your prayers to ours.

We just got a call from Dr. Lyons. Peep’s bloodwork turned out fine, couldn’t be better, no kidney problems: just an overactive thyroid. Her sister Robbie has that, too; but it fooled us because their symptoms, for the same thing, were so different.

We can handle this. We know the medication works. Robbie was a little bag of bones before the thyroid medicine kicked in. Now you’d never guess there was anything wrong, to look at her.

So yes, God hears and answers prayers–and they don’t have to be Big Important Prayers For World Peace, either.

It’s a very fine Christmas present, Father–and the one we wanted most.

Providential!

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Work has lately stalled on The Witch Box, mostly because I have a major artistic challenge looming up in front of me and I haven’t been shown the way to the top.

So we watched a movie yesterday, Deja Vu (2006), starring Denzel Washington and Jim Caviezel–and holy cow! Half an hour into it, I realized  Denzel was up against the same kind of dangerous problem confronting the characters in my book. Not exactly the same, of course–but Obst and Helki would be a lot better equipped to deal with it if they could see this movie.

Suddenly I was pumped to get back to writing the book. What would medieval people do if they were given powerful, cutting-edge 21st century technology–with no instructions as to how it worked, how to use it, what it could do, what to be careful not to do, and so on?

I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, and I certainly don’t want to spoil the book. This was one of those good movies that the critics didn’t like, possibly because there was a strong Christian slant to it. It’s a thriller that fires up your imagination. And I’d like to achieve the same effect with my book.

Well, I kept asking and asking the Lord to guide me in the writing of this book–and along comes this movie yesterday. Coincidence or Providence?

As far as I’m concerned, that’s an easy one to answer.

Rejoice! An Answered Prayer. Rejoice!

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I don’t know how to tell you how my heart leaped when I went to check the comments and there I found that little snowman avatar that announces a comment by our friend and brother, Dave, aka “thewhiterabbit.”

Dave and his wife, Linda, were down with COVID, very weak and sick. They’re still feeling somewhat the worse for wear, so keep praying for their full recovery. However, they have survived. They’re still here. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise God who hears our prayers.

Now, requested by “thewhiterabbit,” we have Horatio Spafford’s classic hymn, It Is Well With My Soul, sung by the Mennonite Hour Men’s Choir. Prior to writing this hymn, Mr. Spafford, who had much, lost everything but his life. Take the lyrics to heart.

Thank you, O Lord, for answering our prayers and once again showing the power of Jesus’ name–amen!