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Broken-Hearted
Ann had another doctor’s appointment soon after we returned from our escape in Colorado. The hematologist recommended diagnostic surgery, because Ann’s spleen was still enlarged. A surgeon would remove...
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Does God Hear?
The morning after Ann’s surgery our hematologist and his nurse DeeDee came into our hospital room to discuss the initial inferences from Ann’s diagnostic surgery. The preliminary pathology report...
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Discouraged, but Steadfast (Sep 7th)
This is the latest from Houston. The Storm We received great news from last week’s tests—no sign of cancer in the lungs or the cavity where the spleen was. Also, the fluid in her chest cavity had not...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (Sep 26th)
In his book When Heaven is Silent Ron Dunn writes, “Good and bad run on parallel tracks, and they usually arrive about the same time.”[i] Cancer was evil this week, but God has countered with good....
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Permanent, Final and Irreversible
We returned from one of our regular trips to M.D. Anderson nearly five years ago, hopeful that the new chemo plan would continue to keep Ann afloat in her cancerous sea. We celebrated Matt’s twelfth...
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Reversing the Irreversible
Minburn Cemetary My friend Greg came over the other Saturday evening to watch the Dallas Mavericks. He asked me two questions. The first was, “How are you doing?” He assured me that he wanted an honest...
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Why Even Bother to Pray? (Sep 8th)
A few months ago I had some rare deep thoughts: Since God is sovereign, knows the future, and has everything planned, then prayer is an exercise for relating to him. When we pray for others, we...
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The Second Round (Oct 1)
I stole a few minutes to watch part of Cinderella Man a couple of weeks ago. The story revolves around James Braddock, a washed up boxer fighting for survival during the Great Depression. Towards the...
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