New Mercies Each Morning

As Anthony wrote, yesterday was a hard day.  Maybe one of the most discouraging we've had.  This morning he shared Lamentations 3:22-26...

    [22] The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
        his mercies never come to an end;
    [23] they are new every morning;
        great is your faithfulness.
    [24] “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
        “therefore I will hope in him.”
    [25] The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
        to the soul who seeks him.
    [26] It is good that one should wait quietly
        for the salvation of the LORD.
    [27] It is good for a man that he bear
        the yoke in his youth.
(Lamentations 3:22-27 ESV))

Here's a few mercies this day...

Toothless beauty!

We went to dinner at one of our favorite places, Santiago's in Loveland. Lydia was enjoying a sopapilla and when she cupped her mouth.  We ran to the bathroom and pulled out right there.  What a cute girl!

The Logging Team

This morning a big truck pulled up in front of our house with a log splitter.  Shortly after came lots of strong hands with another log splitter and other wood splitting tools.  Away they went.  We have a woodburning stove that heats our basement in the winter and we had a huge pile of wood that needed to be split.  These guys from Anthony's office and our church split the wood, stacked it up, and cleaned up a mountain of bark and scraps.  They were so fast, they cut down a dead tree in our front yard THEN they cleaned out our garage which was has become a disastrous, dumping ground.  They installed a screen door that has been sitting along the wall of the garage for 2 years and fixed the drive through window on our front door which used to hold an intact screen.  When everything in life is so out of our control, a clean and tidy garage sure does make it feel a bit better.  Now, if we can figure out a place for all the bikes we might actually be able to park in that garage!

Rourke got to do some manly things like use a log splitter and then Mr. James took him and some of the other young muscle men out back to shoot the BB gun.  That's a sweet day for a 7 year old!

And our MOST exciting mercy thus far had us jumping up & down!  Here are the girls saying, "Thank you, God!"

Esther's hemoglobin and platelets were so low yesterday they had scheduled a blood and platelet transfusion for this morning.  BUT....her levels jumped up and her ANC went from 9.8 yesterday to 74 today!  My faith was so weak yesterday, I was sheepishly asking for something in the 20's.  If it's over 100 tomorrow, she'll get to come home and we have a week together before we have to start our next chemo treatment. New mercies, new mercies.