When people think of me, they might think of the lady who writes this on a lot of her correspondence: GIGATTAATTGIG. They might think of me as the author of a blog or FB group with that same title. What some people don't know, is that I am deeply aware of how hard life is AND that what I do say often is: "Life is hard, but God is good!"
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I have family members who suffer from excruciating health problems (both physical and mental) and I often ask God, "Why?" They need a Deliverer! We all need a deliverer from this life of sin and death! Last week, our theme song was "My Deliverer". I'm listening to it right now as I write this. It's lyrics include, "...my Deliverer is standing by..." Over the last few weeks, I've watched "delivery" come to fruition in several ways:
- On Thursday, our daughter - in - love delivered our second grandaughter while our son assisted in the "delivery"!
- Chip Bloecher has been delivered from the brink of death to LIFE over the past few weeks. This week he has gone from lying down to sitting up to walking. This morning, he plans to walk right out of that hospital and home!
As Chip's friend Marshall said last night on the FB Group page, PRAY FOR CHIP BLOECHER, "God... and only God... friends, this just DOESN'T happen... except for God..."
- Rich Edwards lost both of his hands in an accident several years ago. Recently, he as been delivered from a life with no hands to a life with what seems will be two working / functional hands! Rich had the world's third successful hand transplant in August. He went through another surgery on Monday to make sure that the success is going to happen. Here is the news report published on Tuesday... it includes a video clip:
Doctors: Hand-Transplant Recipient Recovery 'Miraculous' - News Story - WLKY Louisville
- The steeple for our new building was delivered recently. A week ago it was lifted to it's place of prominence.
Yesterday, after I took these pictures of the building, I headed through town to our church family's temporary offices. I saw the hustle and bustle of this busy little community... the buildings... the people...
I pray, that in this little corner of the world, I will stand in such a way as to reflect the goodness of my God who is the GIVER and DELIVERER of all good things.... I pray that even though LIFE IS HARD, I will stand in a manner that reflects that no matter the circumstances, GIGATTAATTGIG...
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I can think of no better way to end this week than to join Chip Bloecher as he reads to his daughter John 1.
http://www.youtube.com/user/prayforchip
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