When it rains, it pours.

For those of my readers that do not know, my wife has breast cancer. She come down with cancer about 4 years ago. It came back 2 years ago in her hip, 2 vertebra and her liver. For 23 months now there has been NO change, growth or spreading. Praise the Lord for holding it in check.

The chemo has been very rough on her but she is a trooper. She continues to be an avid runner and exerciser. Her doctor changes her chemo to a different one about ever 6 months because it weakens her so much. Each different kind has it's own bad side effects. Her hair is now growing back from the last kind of chemo.

Well, 3 weeks ago she had a treatment and the next day something strange started to happen to her. Within a week her whole left side was not working normally. She is going to have another pet scan in a week but we think she has had a mini stroke.

It seems in this life that when it rains it pours. Because of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ we have kept our sanity. "Thank You Jesus that we can always trust in You to see us through whatever this life throws at us." We believe Jesus still heals and will do miracles. It keeps us going.

We believe in the power of prayer and encourage everyone to remember Dale in prayer. You don't know how much it helps us to keep on keeping on when we know that others are going to our Lord on Dale's behave.

Blessings,

alight

It’s time for a new bible.

My wife bought me a new bible many years ago for my birthday. She had my name put on the front cover and it was real nice. After many years of use it started to fall apart so I bought a cover to go on it. Well, the other day I decided to retire it and get a new one. I found a nice one that was almost the same as the one my wife gave me.

I have read through the bible many times. One year I read through the New Testament over and over. I come up with the idea of writing the New Testament down by hand hoping that I would pick up things. I have the whole copy of the New Testament now in my own hand writing.

One year I read the bible an hour a day. That was very hard because of a busy life. One day I was on a road trip out west and had traveled from 2:00 am till late in the evening. It was 11:00 pm when I realized that I had not read my bible that day. I jumped up out of the hotel bed and to keep from waking anyone up I sneaked outside and read my bible in the truck.

I have highlighted tons of scriptures in the old bible. Many times I have reread a highlighted verse and wondered why I highlighted it to begin with. I guess the Lord was telling me something for that particular time. To me the bible is alive.

Well, I have ordered new highlight pencils so I am ready to color up my new bible when the Lord moves me. I am excited to have my new bible and hope that this one will last the rest of my life. It sure is hard to break in another one. My old bible and I were kind of close.

alight