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It’s Killing My Spirit

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Lately when I go to bed at night, I dream of being hauled back to the hospital. These dreams are not restful!

And it’s daunting to see how many of our little circle need prayers. Erlene, Phoebe, the Ingrams–all standin’ in the need o’ prayer, as the old song says. (And why am I so into spirituals this morning? Is the Lord trying to tell me something?)

Well, friends and fellow soldiers, you certainly have my prayers, and I know I have yours. I’ve been a patient for three months now and I’m really tired of it. And I still can’t find Ozias, Prince Enthroned. I have the book in longhand on legal pads, so I know I wrote it. But where’s the finished product? Did I somehow manage to lose it, somewhere in the bowels of some omnivorous computer?

We aspire to watching Jason and the Argonauts this afternoon. Some Ray Harryhausen monsters and Bernard Hermann music, with root beer, might have a restorative effect.

Thank You, Eldermike

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I have never felt so sick and weak in my entire adult life. If anybody ever tells you chemotherapy is a piece of cake, uh-uh–don’t believe it.

Nevertheless, even as we speak, there’s always joy and merriment somewhere in the world: all way have to do is find it. Thank you for the tip, Eldermike! I needed this video! And for the rest of our little band of bloggers–well, just because I’m sick doesn’t mean we’re closed for comments.I’d much appreciate anyone’s efforts to take up the slack.

(Three more sessions, and I can stop doing this. Somewhere down the road lies normalcy.)

Keep On Praying

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Today I can sit down to a normal breakfast–no doctors’ appointments today. Hallelujah!

I know more than a few of you are, and have been, praying for me. I hardly know how to tell you how much I appreciate it.

But I want to take this opportunity to exhort more prayers, for more of our fellowship: prayers for Erlene, for Dave (Thewhiterabbit), and for Susan, my editor… just for starters. We need each other’s prayers.

We also need more young people joining up with us. Yo, 25-year-olds and younger! This old man is reaching out to you. Someone’s gonna be needed to take over here.

But in the meantime–pray! We can’t do without it.

A Word of Prayer (Christian Bloggers)

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Our friend SlimJim’s blog, The Domain for Truth, exhorts us today, “This Sunday at church, pray for those who lost someone in their family this year.”

This Sunday at Church: Pray for those who lost someone in their family this year

I thank God no one in my family has been taken away this year so far… maybe because there are so few of us left. But 2018 was a bad year: Aunt Joan, Patty’s brother Ray, and a couple of our long-time friends. As John Donne observed, the bell always tolls.

We don’t go to despair–or at least shouldn’t go–like the heathen who have no hope. We are promised eternal life. In the fullness of Christ’s Kingdom, all that was lost shall be restored.

It’s still hard to carry on without our loved ones, though.

Hebrews 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

And it’s what we need.