THANKSGIVING!

We continue to be amazed by GOD's goodness in our lives!!!  Another year has passed and we had the privilege of gathering as a family at Thanksgiving!  So many scriptures have been pouring into our lives, for which we are deeply thankful!  HE continues to assure us HE knows right where we are and our job is to simply stay the course...and with a course filled with HIS exceedingly abundant peace, why would we choose to go anywhere else??? :)  Hope you all had a beautiful day of Thanksgiving with your families!

Many Hands Make Light Work! :)

So excited to share some pics of our work day on Saturday!  We had about 53 of our dear family and friends show up (that's 106 hands! ;) and did things ever fly! :)  By 3pm (4 hours later) the job was done and we were elated!

Fred is doing real well with the new protocol.  The first week he took smaller doses so his body could adjust and this week he's up to full doses, which is causing some serious detoxing which results in tiredness.  So...he's taking it easy and letting his body rest instead of trying to push and keep working full days.

So here's the pics!

Let's start with the backhoe operator! Love this guy! XO

Loading out the old foundation 

Our truck drivers! XOXO

Pickin up....

breakin up....

 

loadin up...

and loadin up some more!

 Then there were the tree trimmers, grinders, brush haulers and brush whackers.....

Let's see, I think we started with 20, but the final count was closer to 22!

I'll vouch for them, they really did help load that trailer....plus a few more!

And a handy fella that generally cleaned up around there... :)

So we don't want to forget about the walnuts.....

We racked up piles of leaves and walnuts......

and more walnuts.....

A whole truck load of walnuts!!!!  I'm sure glad we had help!

 Then of course we had lunch! Thanks to the kind neighbor who opened his home to us!

So just a brief overview of the day.  We appreciate so much all the support we have been shown.  We continue to stay in our peace and continue in an unreasoning trust by HIS grace!
Love you all!

Living Life...

Sorry for the delay in posting!  We decided early this week that we needed to get in a work day at the "house" so we've been busy planning our strategy for Saturday.  We'll be grinding out stumps, picking up walnuts...didn't make a dent in them the other day :O as well as mowing, and tearing out all the old brick basement walls and hauling it away!

Fred's been filling his days with office work at the farm, as well as running for parts.  At Dr. appt. Monday they took all 32 staples out and Dr. said he could lift as much as 30# but not to overdo! So we decided we better ask for a little help! ;)

Thanks so much for all the messages in support of our faith and hope!
We continue....living life and thanking GOD!

Our Little Boat of HOPE and Answered Prayer

A little over a week ago, the Friday before we left the hospital, we were visited by an Oncologist whose job  was to give us the pathology report.  He told us what he knew about the cancer that was still in Fred’s abdomen and he told us what he would do to treat it and what we could expect from that treatment.  It was a message without HOPE.  As we went to sleep that night, having committed ourselves to the GOD of the Universe, our FATHER, we were at peace.  In the early morning hours Fred awoke and turned to the WORD and GOD opened the scripture to 2Kings 19:6-37, then he called to me and I read it also…GOD had built us a little boat of HOPE, and tucked us inside, and WE purposed in our hearts to stay right there!  We are not filled with fear, because the same LORD who Hezekiah served is our LORD too.  This is what the doctor said.  What is in the abdomen is the same type of cancer that was on Fred’s neck two years.  It’s a poorly differentiated small cell cancer.  There is no cure, only treatment.  That treatment is chemo, and because this type of cancer is aggressive, chemo will have a positive effect on killing it, but it won’t get it all and it will only work once. He said his median life expectancy is 3 months without their chemo and 9 months with their chemo. 

And then the LORD opened HIS WORD to 2Kings 19:6-37…. 

This post has been really hard to put out there because we have HIS amazing peace abiding in our hearts.  It’s been hard to write it all out, the prognosis wants to keep coming up and smacking us in the face, but we are looking with anticipation of the miracle our LORD has the power to perform.  

We have been waiting for the LORD to tell us what to do next.  Last Saturday night we got our answer.  HE has been very clear to us and has directed us in another way.  We will begin incorporating a new protocol within the week.  We feel this new protocol has great potential, but it’s just our little part, it’s that little something we can be doing while HE does HIS will…and we are good with whatever comes!

So now I would just ask you to step in FAITH into our little boat of HOPE, with a prayer to GOD that HIS will would be done and that we would have the grace to accept it.  I think soon our little boat of HOPE will become a ship of FAITH as GOD grows it to hold us all.  And no matter how big the waves, we will all feel safe in HIS presence.

I asked Fred to share a closing thought, and this is what he said… “All I want to say is that there’s nothing like HOPE!  You can’t put a value on HOPE, it’s just amazing!  We praise GOD for JESUS!”

IN STRONG HOPE,  Fred & Brenda