First, I truly hope you know that Kellie and I are so very thankful to all of you as a church body both here locally and online virtually. We can’t thank all of you enough for your overwhelming love, your understanding, your patience, your respecting of our family’s privacy and infinitely more importantly your prayers. While I’d love nothing more than to have the praise report that God has miraculously healed my wife, I am unable to!!!
But God, for reasons that are known only to Him, has seemingly deemed it fit to delay and prolong what we were told was terminal and inevitable. As such, we’re looking not to the physician, respectfully, rather, we’re looking only to the Great Physician, eternally. This by faith, as we continue to live our lives together as a family one day at a time, knowing full well Kellie’s condition could take a sudden turn for the worse overnight.
To the question of when I will return to the pulpit, Lord willing and permitting it should be soon and very soon. However, please kindly allow me just a little more time, as I want and need the time, to be a husband for my wife as well as being a father for our 3-adult children all of whom really need me during this very difficult time.
In the meantime, I’ll always have a hard time expressing the blessing of how gracious you all have been to us in the love you all have for us. We will continue to wait on the Lord, pray to the Lord, look upon the Lord and trust in the Lord to do that which only He can according to His will, in His time, in His way all for His glory.
Until,
jd