August 26 – “With the rain”

We watched it rain some more yesterday.  And we had not just rain, but some really high winds as well.  I saw where they were gusting up to 60 miles per hour.  Sure seemed that high here.  The trees were bending.  The sky was churning.  We even went outside for a while to take in the show before the rain actually started.

Meanwhile I tried to catch up on some of the work I usually get done on Mondays.  It all got pushed aside because we spent the entire day in Houston getting doctored on and being pastorly.  The pastorly part involved a visit over to Methodist Hospital to check on our Seaside patient there, Jennifer.  She is the one who originally went in for a ninth surgery on her ankle and is now up to somewhere around fifteen because of complications.  Yep, that’s fifteen surgeries.  On the same site.  This time they were to install an external halo apparatus to keep her ankle in position.  She has had that done once before, but this time the apparatus was much smaller.  Instead of wrapping around her whole leg from knee to ankle, this one is neatly tucked right there at the ankle and through the bones.  She also had a plastic surgery surgery to work on getting the surgical site closed properly.  Jennifer texted Chris last that she didn’t have a single surgery scheduled for today.  Imagine that. 

We had to make a quick WalMart run last night to get some fruit.  As a result I missed the first inning of the Astros game.  And the first five runs they scored.  I thought I had missed all the fireworks for the evening, but was I ever wrong.  We missed those first five runs, sure.  But the last ten runs they scored were just as exciting, especially when the team they were trouncing was the Yankees.  Fifteen to one.  Go Astros.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 says, “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.  He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.”

Father, please keep the healing process going with Jennifer, especially after she leaves the hospital.  Amen.