A Roller-Coaster Week

Hi everyone. This week brought a few tougher days and I didn't want to update the blog while things were a little rough around here. This past round of chemo was rather hard on poor little Timothy as three heavy-duty drugs were given over three hours. Tim felt really yucky during and after the chemo. He has been quite noxious and has been throwing up a lot more. (This including but not limited to throwing up right in front of the elevator at the hospital on the way to a clinic check-up all down his cute little outfit and into the buggy... Yummy. And I do not do well with puke.)

Anyways, today was kind of a whiny, clingy day where he didn't want to sleep or eat and is a lovely shade of green. Please pray for strength for our family as we go thru this difficult patch. Especially as we are moving in 2 weeks and trying to pack and get things ready with 2 stir-crazy kids. It's hard for Kate to not play with her friends and she has been talking about them a lot and missing them. Becky Hum. came over today to help with packing and it was nice to have some help and some company! And nice for Tim too to have someone to flirt with!

Yesterday was a really amazing day as my Grandpa (aka Diedushka) came over to the house. At 84 years of age, he flew all the way from B.C. to come to the 100th anniversary of the Russian church in Toronto. He was (and still is!) a minister and he came to the house to do a blessing ceremony for Timothy. He did a short message about James 5:13-18 which says;

The Prayer of Faith

13Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

Then Diedushka put olive oil on Timothy's head to represent the Holy Spirit covering him. He asked God that His will would be done, whether He choses to heal Timothy or not, that this whole situtation would bring glory to God in some way even if we do not understand it. Then we all sang the old hymn, "Hallelujah, Thine the Glory". Man, were the tears a flowin'! What a powerful, awesome day. I have never seen anything quite like it.

Diedushka also mentioned how when he had his heart-attack 3 years ago and he was laying on the table, he said to God, "Lord, if there's anything else you need me to do, I will do it. If not, you can take me home". Then yesterday he said to Ken and I that God kept him alive all this time just so he could do this today for Timothy. Wow. That's all I have to say.