In my previous post I said that many times Christians ask, "Why this?" "Why me?" "Why now?" Children of God are not immune to crises. We face as many of them as non-Christians. Well, that is the truth. As we wait for Mary's doctor's appointment to see the extent of the broken bone in her foot and whether or not she will have to have surgery, we received word that her 93 year old mother had a light heart attack this morning in Alivn, Tx and is in the hospital.

Here my wife is a broken bone in her foot, facing the possibility of having to have surgery and her mother is in the hospital with a heart attack. You can imagine how she feels...how I feel. After we received the call, the first thing Mary did was say, "Come here" and patted the couch beside her. "We need to pray." We did. We prayed for God's will in the situation, we prayed that God's hand would be upon Suzie and that if it was in His will to allow her to come home from the hospital. We prayed for our own strength and we prayed that Mary would not have to have surgery on her foot. It is very easy to write as I did in the last post that nothing happens to God's children that does not come by His throne. The testing comes when it happens to you. We are saddened at the news, but if God was in control of my not being away when Mary fell, we know He is in control now. Those who read this, please join us in prayer about this matter.