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Race for Hop D.C.

By admin,

Several of us will be running the the Race for Hope again in D.C. in May. Ian will be coming this year too! If you want to join our team, click here. We’re doing this in honor of Steve.

Thanks, as always.

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By admin,

My dad always looked forward to heaven. I’m happy to know that he is there. Now he is experiencing God every single minute of every day. My dad is experiencing health that he never saw here on earth. I miss him but I know he’s happy. It makes me want to try my best with endurance for heaven. I know I’m going to heaven because Christ died. I’m excited for heaven because I’ll see God every day, I love the idea of talking to God…

-Ian

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By admin,

happy 36th wedding anniversary to our wonderful parents. you are the most generous and faithful couple that we have ever known. thank you for your example of christ-like love through all of the unexpected turns of life and marriage. you are storing up for yourselves incredible rewards in heaven.

we love you both
i&l

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By admin,

again i need to apologize for not keeping the blog up very well. there is nothing too new to report. ian had some testing done in pittsburgh today that went well. this weekend i’ll start moving into our new house, plus we’re running a 5k for brain cancer research in DC on Sunday.

Almost exactly four months until we get married. it’s going fast, but at the same time i feel like we’ve been engaged forever. still praying that ian will be walking and standing at our wedding, but trying not to put my hope in that.
thank you for praying. please continue to pray for ian’s memory and that he would initiate conversation.
i&l

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By admin,

Ian said he is doing well here at the hospital. He asked for prayer that he would make a lot of progress while he’s here.

Thanks for praying for us.
I&L

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another prayer request

By admin,

late last week we learned that ian has pre-osteoporisis in his lumbar spine and left femur. please pray that we’re able to do enough exercise for him that it doesn’t progress quickly.

thank you, always.

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Why Did We Anoint My Husband (Again?)

By admin,

This week in church, we were reminded of our need to pray expectantly, not because of the power of the person praying, but because we are asking things of a great God. At the end of the message, Ian received prayer and was anointed by our pastor.

And this is all an appropriate response to sickness, according to the Bible, particularly James 5. It’s just that we’ve done it so many times. And Ian is still severely disabled. He has been anointed by various pastors within our family of churches but he still has not been healed as we have asked. Steve was anointed, and prayed over, and he still died. Our good friend Beth has been anointed multiple times and has still suffered migraines for ten years.
So why do we keep anointing Ian and praying for healing? Why, even when I feel completely deflated, tired of asking the same thing, sick of standing at the front of the church for prayer and all too aware that Steve is gone which means it didn’t “work,” do we keep going forward?
I don’t know. My flesh doesn’t want to. My sinful nature doesn’t believe that God can do it. Because it hasn’t happened yet. And because my flesh is not long suffering.
But if I let go entirely of even the tiny grasp that I have on the truth that God can heal Ian, then I am disregarding who God is. God is able, but not required, to heal Ian. And it scares me to think that he won’t, because I don’t know what that means. I can’t figure out a God who doesn’t heal.
But as Steve often told me, even if God doesn’t heal Ian, He is still good. He will always be good. Even if my flesh can’t understand continued disability and sickness. And we can’t let ourselves forget that He is good and He is merciful. And that is why we still pray. And anoint. Because regardless of how I feel, the Bible tells me that God is able. So when I drag my feet toward expectant prayer and wrestle to believe in its effect, I am still praying to a good God. When my faith feels like a tiny thread, God has a stronghold on my life. When I offer up the weakest prayers, because of Jesus they are still beautiful and acceptable to God.
Thank you for your expectant prayers for four years.
Larissa

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