I am truly amazed that you are reading this! Thank you for continuing to check in with us. Our ‘babies’ are now 13, 12, 9 and 7 and it it just speeding by. Hopefully you have seen us on Facebook…my old profile is gregory dale mcdougal…had to move to another… greg mcdougal
Posted a lot of pics and videos there.
We had a really good year last year as our children stayed out of the hospital for a full year and we soaked up every minute. Then in Aug., Sean had to be admitted…then in Dec. both boys had to be admitted for IV Antibiotics. God has blessed us with a Doctor that we can trust. We are so thankful for that!
We have been working on finishing the upstairs bit by bit with a lot of help from our friends. My friend Brent Johnson has been over to help a lot lately. Also met a new friend, Epp Mevin Walls at the ICM Awards Convention. He came down to help for a full week while the boys were in the hospital. If you’d like, you can find him on Facebook and hear his music.
Moved into the downstairs in Nov. of 2010…upstairs is now very close to being ready.
Turns out that Sean has continued to culture an infection in his upper right lobe of his lung and we have been fighting it back over and over again. Doctor now says that we may have come to a time when removal of that upper right lobe would be best. We are…well… just praying for God’s hand in all of it. Truly believing and hoping for one of those before and after kind of reading of the X Ray miracles.
The bible says that Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen. Well, what do we hope for? What do you hope for? There’s a lot that we hope for in this life. In this crazy life. And the bible says that He is the author and the finisher of our faith. and that it is Him at work in our lives both to do and to will according to His good purpose. I hope for some things that are not yet seen. I believe some things that He has dared me to believe in His word.
But I have a lot of reasons to hope and to believe. We have seen some miraculous things both big and small. Our Heavenly Father has given us so many reasons to believe. So many blessings to count. So much evidence of His word being the truth. The absolute truth!
The bible talks about all of creation testifying to His magnificence.
Have you ever found a patch of dirt that God didn’t make? Now try finding a bit of truth to stand on that He didn’t make.
We are trusting Him! We are hoping in Him. Obviously we are crying out for the sake of our little boy and wanting for him to avoid such surgery. But we are trusting and knowing. Knowing that the last five years alone has shown us that we can trust Him. Trust Him for what? Trust Him that…’It is Him who takes the years that the locusts have eaten and makes them new’ that
‘ He takes what the enemy meant for evil and makes for good’ that He meant it when He said…’Fear Not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name…you are mine’…and… ‘You know not the thoughts I have for you…thoughts of peace and not of evil… to bring you to an expected end’
That in Psalms, He tells us over and over that them who put their trust in Him, He will deliver them out of their trouble.
If you are needing comfort in the midst of some real struggles, then go to His word and find truth! If you are in doubt and need reassuring, then go to His word and find truth! Jesus said…’I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, will bear much truth but without me you can do nothing’
Lord, please help me to abide in you. To seek your wisdom and truth. To delight in your words. To teach them diligently to my children. To talk of them when I rise up and when I lay down. To lead a life pleasing to you.
I really want to get it right.