Easter Sunday

Thank you, Father, for Resurrection Sunday! Without it, we would have no hope of eternity!

It's been a quiet, restful day. Ron has slept off and on all day...catching up from ICU! Great place to be when critical, but not a place to get any rest! The kids came up for a few hours; brought some lunch, watched some basketball, opened Easter goodies and catnapped, as well! I worked a good deal of the afternoon in order to send some stuff home with the kids, then I took a late afternoon nap. Just finished up a little more work to get the week started off as stress-free as possible.

Dr. Liddell (Infectious Disease) says Ron will stay on "big gun" antibiotics through Tuesday, which will finish out 7 days. Dr. Weinstein (pulmonologist and handles TPN) says he's doing well, only needs tweaking of his TPN. After a couple of days he will probably put him on a diuretic to help get rid of the fluid in his tissue, not too soon or it will counter-act all the IV fluids he's had to combat dehydration. He needs to move as much as possible which is extremely difficult with all the fluid in his legs...Ron says it's like dragging lead weight. He's being pretty faithful to do alot of leg movement in bed. Hopefully PT will come tomorrow and bring a walker, that would help make walking more bearable.

Love, Christie

Devotional thoughts from different sources I've been reading:

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai...Then the Lord said to him, "I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard the groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt." Acts 7:30, 33-34

When God delays, He is not inactive. This is when He prepares and matures our stength.

God is never in a hurry. He spends years preparing those He plans to use and never thinks of the days of preparation as being too long.

The most difficult ingredient of suffering is often time.

God often has to burn the lessons into the depths of our being, using the fires of prolonged pain.
"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver' (Malachi 3:3) He knows the specific amount of time that will be needed. Like a goldsmith, God stops the fires the moment He sees His image in the glowing metal.

We may be unable to see the final outcome of His plans...but can rest in the assurance that God is still seated on His throne.

We should be more careful to focus on learning all the lessons in the school of sorrow than to focus anxious eyes toward the time of our deliverance....when we are ready, our deliverance will definitely come.

Don't steal tomorrow from God's hands. We must give Him time to speak and reveal His will. He is never late...we must learn to wait.

No earthly circumstance can hinder the fulfillment of God's word.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.