My sweet baby cousin is one month old today.  She’s so beautiful, I’m sad I’m not going to see her grow up.

It’s funny how in life you always have waves of happiness and waves of sadness.  You just can’t get away from the sadness, it’s always going to be there.  That’s why you really need the joy of the Lord no matter what.  In the last week I’ve been told that a dear friend has cancer, another dear friend had a massive stroke and died yesterday morning, and my cat disappeared and is nowhere to be seen for the last couple of days.

These are all part of life, thank goodness I have God to show me that bad things happen so we need to pray a lot and stay close to God.

Let Jesus be the light of YOUR world.  Not the light of the world but YOUR world.

I had a lot of fun in the hot sun.  We went to the lake, to the pool, climbed to Nebraska’s largest water fall.  Which is pretty but not very high.  I actually hiked to a couple different water falls. I went to Rapid City where Mount Rushmore is.  I’ve been to Mount Rushmore a couple of times so didn’t need to go back.  I saw the black hills and went to a famous place called Wall.  I don’t know why it’s so famous but it’s a cute town.  Plus much more.  It was a great trip but I’m excited to get back to work.  A lot of stuff going on with work right now between the open enrollment coming up for both the health care reform as well as Medicare.  I’m going to be so busy, then I’m going to be done with everything after March.  It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

My dad seems to be doing pretty good, although I haven’t seen him.  His infection is pretty much gone and hopefully he only has one more chemo treatment.  I’m confident that with God’s help he will be back to his old self in no time at all.

The good news for those who don’t know, the spot the doctors were worried about that they thought was cancer is not cancer!  On the other hand, the doctors have never seen anything like it before and are perplexed.  For now, they are keeping him on antibiotics and keeping a close eye on the spot hoping it will disappear.

It’s been about 4 1/2 weeks since my dads last chemo treatment so he’s scheduled for a 5th treatment this coming Wednesday.  We’re still not sure if he’s getting 6 treatments or 8.  It would be nice if it were 6, but we think it will be 8.  The bottom line is killing the cancer for good.  Then my dad can get his life back and work on getting healthy again.  He’s very sore still from the surgery.  After all, they cut a huge chunk out of his rectum.

Thanks everyone for your continued prayers.

Luke 12:22:31

Worry is natural but it is so draining.  It accomplishes nothing and only hurts.  With this news about my dad, my first thought is that it can’t be cancer and I’m not worried, let them rule it out.  Then my mind starts to wonder, I talk it out with other people and all of a sudden I’m really worried.  I love my dad more than anything and just want him to be well.  My worrying isn’t going to help him get better.  The good news is that God is in control, today he is having the biopsy and once we know one way or another, we will be able to fix the problem.

My cousin told me that her boyfriend isn’t as bad as it sounds.  His bile duct in his liver isn’t working very well so they put a draining tube in his side this morning.  I guess they caught it early enough and hopefully he will be just fine by the time their little baby comes.

Please pray for my cousin Rachel and her boyfriend Kyle.  Rachel is pregnant and is due to have her baby in a couple of weeks and her boyfriend Kyle was just flown to the University of Nebraska hospital.  I don’t know the details yet, but when Kyle was a little boy, he received a liver transplant.  That transplant failed  so he got another transplant and that one worked.  I’ve heard that he’s been in the hospital and today I just found out that they are transporting him to another hospital.  Nothing can happen to that boy, so please pray.

Thanks for all the prayers!