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Ian is out of surgery and doing well. We will know the results in a week. The surgeon said the nodes he removed looked healthy, which is encouraging.
Thankful for your prayers.
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“Im glad you didn’t die in your car accident six years ago.”
“I’m glad too because I get to be next to you. I’m so glad I’m alive. Because of you.”
Can’t really ask for a sweeter Saturday morning.
Love him
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No ability to generate or formulate new thoughts tonight – just a check to say we’re still alive:)
Tomorrow we head west with lydi on a road trip to see dear friends that we miss much.
and then the move in week starts!
here’s to a weekend of laughter.
I&L
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“Ian I’m pretty sure I don’t want you to ever die. Can you just live forever?”
“I don’t think that’s God’s plan for me.”
“then can I still be special to you in heaven?”
“you’re my best friend on earth so you’ll be my best friend in heaven.”
As we fell asleep last night, a thunderstorm crept outside our window. Watching the curtains play in the breeze, I thought about heaven and how Ian will have his new body then. There is a lot about our final home that I don’t know. But I remember asking Steve if we would be special to him in heaven. Even though we will be swallowed up in Christ in what is too magnificent for our words to describe now, I still want to be with Ian, and Steve, and our families.
I can’t wait to love Ian with a perfect love in heaven. We will be married to Christ but I think we will still have a whole lot of fun together. I like to think that the special love God has given us here is just an itsy bitsy reflection of the incredible love we will have for each other in heaven.
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we had just settled down on our blanket, heads propped, under the perfectly sized tree next to our driveway. The sky was carefully cast in smooth blue and white and every few seconds, a little brown bird would swoop overhead. And then a few geese. A larger flock of sparrows. We hear birds like this every night but are usually under the cover of our porch – we rarely see to who we can attribute the sounds.
But tonight, with stomaches full and skin adequately chlorinated from our earlier swim, we just lay and watched them.
“look at the birds of the air” Matthew 6:26
It came to mind, gently, knowing that tomorrow means another appointment, hoping that it doesn’t tell us of cancer. I wasn’t feeling anxious about it, I don’t think. Sad, but not anxious. So sweetly though the birds comforted us, as they carried on their way.
praying that we fall asleep in peace tonight.
Love
I&L
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once I said it, I realized it’s a question I would have hoped to not ever ask Ian. Ian’s dermatologist called to say that his biopsy from his mole looks to be melanoma. It took a few extra people to review it and confirm. He has recommended us to a doctor in Pittsburgh who will take additional samples to confirm it is cancerous and then check the nearest lymph nodes.
Ian asked for prayer that he would be ok and that the doctors and nurses would have wisdom. I’ll add the prayer that this would be an isolated incident.
Thanks
I&L
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my post is very simple tonight. I totally love this guy. That’s all.
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“what good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? can that faith save him?”
james 2:14
as we have been studying James, we’ve been given a new and beautiful picture of one purpose of our marriage. as Ian now has a wife and a helper, he is able to complete works that he couldn’t do before. because as I bring our life to him, through questions for direction, wisdom with finances, how to respond in relationships, Ian equips me to complete more and different works than I would on my own.
this change, this joy, this gift, is just one more example of God as the perfect author of marriage. it is a covenant that holds more eternal worth than I think we will ever come to know in this life.
happy weekend.
I&L
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