Our time of intense outer activity and incredible inner tension began Christmas Day when Covid entered our world. I was sick about a week, but Wayne was hit quite hard and is still on supplemental oxygen and unable to walk more than twenty feet without becoming breathless.
What I most wish to tell you is that God is faithful thru the fire and all the phrases you’ve read in Scripture and heard in Christian songs ARE TRUE. God is a present help in trouble, He will sustain you, you can cling to Him. The God who named Himself I AM is with us when we go through exhaustion and life-threatening dangers.
We depended upon His Holy Spirit for wisdom as we sorted out conflicting treatment recommendations. I prayed Scripture over Wayne nightly. Favorite verses were from Psalm 27, 13 and 14: “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
Heaven has occupied our minds often. I will admit anticipating the awesome presence of Jesus there is a huge draw. Neither Wayne, nor I, are afraid of transitioning to existence in heaven. Honestly though, we dread the idea of being separated for a while from one another and family and friends.
The past ten days Wayne has shown small, but definite improvement. It would appear we’ve temporarily been blessed with MORE OF his life here! We serve a MORE OF God.
We didn’t journey through this alone. The prayers of so many of you were powerful!!! And our adult children were incredible caregivers!!! And many gifts of soups and sweets and cards were deeply appreciated.
So this Easter we celebrate the RISEN LIFE of JESUS AND THE LIFE OF MY HUSBAND WAYNE, at least until God brings his life to completion in His perfect way and time.
WRITING/SPEAKING UPDATE:
My 24th and probably last book, God’s Near, a devotional, was released in Jan. but I didn’t have time to publicize it. May it bless you. If you’d like to leave a review or tell friends I'd be grateful.
My YouTube channel [Judith Rolfs] has continued to grow to over 600 subscribers. The most popular video has over 18,000 views – 10 Ways to Show Respect. This is all God. I’ve done nothing to make it happen. I pray every viewer and reader will be blessed by the work God assigned me years ago when He called me to write, speak and counsel for Him.
This link below takes you to my author page.
https://www.amazon.com/Judith-Rolfs/e/B001KI0KLU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
- BLESSED EASTER DEAR ONES!
- TRULY JESUS IS RISEN!
- LET NOTHING AND NO ONE TAKE YOUR JOY FROM YOU.
- IT'S OUR EASTER LEGACY OF HOPE LIFTING OUR HEARTS EVERY DAY.
