ACTS

Have you ever felt like your prayers weren't "good" enough? Here are some helpful acronym ACTS, which helps guide us in our prayers:
A
Adoration
Praise and worship of God for who he is.
C
Confession
Confessing our sins and receiving his forgiveness.
T
Thanksgiving
Giving thanks for all God's blessings and answers to our prayers.
S
Supplication
Asking God for specific things. Petition is another word for this. When you ask God to meet someone else's needs, it is called intercession, the act of interceding.

Is the Lord's Prayer really a prayer? It has been said that it is a "sample" to help guide our way of praying? What do you think?

Birthday bash

My "little" Buddy Love is turning 18 on Saturday. His birthday bash will include supper of hot dogs, macaroni salad, chips, dip, fruit and cake. Everyone who has been praying and/or thinking of him in the past couple of weeks is invited to his party. Call me and I will give you the directions.

Good news!

Bryan's chest xray is better today than yesterday. His white blood count is down to 14,000. Heart rate and temp are back to normal. Blood pressure is still a little low. The best news I have heard in almost 2 weeks came today! Bryan is home! He has some appointments next week for some further testing. The type of pneumonia he had was very serious and usually only older people have that type. Thank you to everyone for your support, prayers, food, and monetary donations. We would not have made it through this ordeal without God's grace and the outpouring of love from you guys.

On the mend...maybe?

Bryan is slowly progressing. His white blood count is 16,000. He says he is feeling pretty good. His liver and kidney levels are starting to decrease a little. He is starting to eat and drink a little more this evening. Physical therapy came today. They say Bryan might have to have a couple of weeks of therapy once he gets home. They have not said a possible day to go home yet. Thanks again for keeping him in your prayers.

Moving Day

Bryan is out of icu. He has been moved to Brenner's. He is doing really good. He had a few visitors that he really enjoyed today. Thanks to everyone for all of your prayers and support! We have had a lot of answered prayers in the last few days.

Day 10

Bryan's breathing tube has been taken out! His oxygen is staying in the high 90s again. He is doing a wonderful job. He will have to stay in ICU for at least 24 hours so they can make sure everything is ok. Right now, he can only whisper. The nurse says his voice should come back in a couple of hours. He is already asking for a green popsicle! Watch out, guys, he has his phone back. I am sure he will be texting in a few days

Day 9

Bryan is now up to 7 on the sedation medicine. And he STILL wakes up. They have started him on Benadryl because he has developed a yeast infection covering almost his whole body. They are put a cream on it and started him on a medicine in his feeding tube to treat this new infection. He failed the breathing test this morning. His heartrate is good. His left lung looks a little worse than yesterday. Keep praying please!