Mom's last report was that she was hanging in while the Chemo kicked her butt. The report is still the same: still hanging in, still kicking her butt. But Mom is tough--tougher than she even thinks she is, and she's plugging along. There have been steps forward and steps back, but at least there is movement. This is a rough road for both Mom and Dad, neither one knowing what to do to make things better and neither one willing to stop trying. Those of you who have known our family for a long time know this is how they work: one step at a time. And always asking the Lord to walk with them.
Please continue to pray for their load to be lightened. In the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon, the people beg for the Lord's help because they are in bondage. "...the Lord did hear their cries...yet the Lord did not see fit to deliver them out of bondage." Mom's burden is very much like bondage in that she is being submitted to awful things and has to keep enduring through it. However, in Mosiah chapter 24 verses 14 & 15 we read the Lord's promise: "...I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this I will do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions. And now it came to pass that the burdens...were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease..." And later in the chapter we are reminded that "...none could deliver them except it were the Lord their God."
With Mom's current burden, none can deliver her except the Lord God. She needs the constant faith and prayers of those who love her to pray for her, that her burden may be made light so she can bear her burden with ease. Dinners and visits help her mood, letters and cards lift her spirits, cute wigs help her self-esteem. But only the Lord God can heal. As a favor to Mom, please petition the Lord today to help her burden become light on her shoulders.
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Your mother will remain steadfast and immoveable with a perfect brightness of hope in our Savior Jesus Christ. It is this faith and hope that will carry her triumphantly through this difficult time. I know she has many more years of good health ahead of her as she leads her family closer or our Father. My prayers will be constant and never ending.
Hazel
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