Amy's 'momentary trouble'

Again, Amy started the day feeling pretty good, but as afternoon came on, so did the stomach pain. I can tell this is frustrating her as she wants to be up, doing things around the house and feeling a certain amount of self-worth. This isn’t being pressed into her, but is coming from within herself. I believe from a sense of needing a return to normalcy. As usual, please continue to pray that Amy will start feeling better soon. I would ask if you could, please offer a prayer for Dan & Arlene Hait. Even though we do not personally know this couple from Milwaukee (good friends of ours from church know them), they just found out this past Friday that Arlene has stage 4 (end stage) Pancreatic Cancer. When they asked their doctor about long term prognosis, all he said was that she should get her affairs in order as quickly as possible. Being in their forties, they have a 12 year old son named Ben. Please keep this family in your prayers.

Listen, this is important. There is never a time during which Jesus isn’t speaking to us. Never. There is never a place in which Jesus isn’t present. Never. There is never a room so dark…a concert too noisy…a wasteland so desolate…or an office so sophisticated…that the ever-present, ever-pursuing, relentlessly tender Friend is not there…speaking words of guidance…tapping gently on the doors of our hearts…waiting to be invited in. Few hear His voice, few follow His guidance and fewer still open the door. But never interpret our avoidance or numbness as His absence. For in the midst of this world full of fleeting promises of fame, fortune and pleasure, is the timeless promise of His presence. Hebrews 13:5 says: ‘Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.’ and in Matthew 28:20: ‘Surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.’
There is no amount of noise so loud or place so remote that the voice of God cannot be heard…if we but listen.

This is Amy's story as seen and told by me – V