Dad is doing well at Health South. He started some of his therapy today and he is doing well. Things are about the same, please continue to pray for a miracle and that Dad's personality will get back to the Gene that we all know and love.
I know that medically those things may not seem likely, but we know that with our God ALL things are possible.
Now more than ever your words of encouragement are helping us through...We count on it! Thank you for continuing to hold us up....We Believe
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Ohh My Gosh... If that is not a Meredith boy up on that bike then call me crazy!! All of you have the same little cute smirk! Jason you look so much like your Daddy! We want you to know that we are thinking of you and hope that all of you get the rest you need to keep up the strength. I pray for all of you that you may have days with peace, joy, laughter, and more good memories made. This time reminds us family and friends mean everything!!
We love you all bunches, Mandi, Kort, Averi, and Kade XOXOXO
Keeping you lifted up in prayer.
Ray Thompson
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I'm so grateful for Gina's updates. We are lifting you up in prayer every single day. Keep the faith and continue to believe that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.
With love and concern,
Larry and Debbye
Gene and Peggy,
You are in my prayers. Know that God is with you and is giving you strength. I have been keeping up with your journey thru your blog site. I received the following by email today and thought of you.
10-11-07
This is an absolutely incredible interview with Rick Warren, author of "Purpose Driven Life" His wife now has cancer, and he now has "wealth" from the book sales. In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
"People ask me, "What is the purpose of life?" And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body--but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal.
God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."
But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her.
It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list.
He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD. "
All my love, Diane Wilson Lacy
Sister Peggy.......well, what a journey you guys are on. But don't fret, we are all with you all the way! When you need food, yard work, house cleaning, grocery shopping, nails done.....you name it, we'll try and do it for you! But above all the material things we can do for you, we will pray - EVERYDAY for God's hand to be upon you. He will put his umbrella up over all of you and give you peace! Never lose sight of that!
Gina, you are doing a GREAT job of posting information. Bless you for having the strength to report ALL the news, good and not-so-good. We can pray for specific things when we have the knowledge. Let's scrapbook when this is all over......maybe we'll get a pic of your Dad when he's NOT in his chair....hee hee
Love to all,
Sister Marcia, Lynn and the boys
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