Several People have been praying and asking about us so I thought i would let everyone know our status.
We think we have made it out of the tuff days of Jackson’s recovery. Days 4-7 were really hard, especially at night. Jackson who normally takes meds very easily and drinks like you wouldn’t believe, started to refuse everything because his throat hurt so bad. Thankfully, Nana has been here for the duration of Jackson’s surgery and recovery. It is so helpful having an experienced Mother (not to take away from my wife at all, but Nana thought of stuff that just showed her experience of raising 3 kids). It will be sad to see her leave tomorrow, maybe she will stay through Sunday, who knows!
Josiah has been a great big brother. He prays everyday for our house to sell and for Jackson’s throat to heal. This week he has memorized Hebrews 13:8 and just today we started working on John 14:6. So when you see him ask him what his memory verse is. He is very excited about doing this and also asks every morning if we can have our early time. That’s what Josiah calls my quiet time. Today he joined me. It was so awesome! I think God is going to use Josiah in a big way!
I have been developing new habits when it comes to my health. I have totally cut out cafine. Which is huge for a guy that would drink coke for breakfast, at every meal, and late into the night. With this and adding a walking regiment to my week i feel better and have lost about 10 pounds. While I walk I have been listening to some podcast of Steven Furtick, Perry Noble, Ed Young Jr, Erwin McManus, Matt Chandler, and Andy Stanley. It is still knew but I am loving it and being challenged and inspired.
Stephanie will celebrate her B-day on Tuesday. She deserve way more than I can give her, but maybe we can celebrate with a date night. It would be good just for us to be able to get away without the kids and be able to focus on each other for a couple of hours. Lord knows all of our attention has been on other things over the last couple of weeks. We had such a great time in Cali to come home to such a intensly stressfull and scary time with Jackson.
We continue to pray that God would be our provider. He has been so good to us so far and as I listened to Perry Nobles talk during the one prayer series I want to live dangerously for Jesus. I want to be a person that focus on what God is going to do next with great excitement and expectation.
Dan Gould 