On Sunday TJ spoke at our home church, Rockpoint. I got a copy of the audio which you can download as an mp3 here. I was extremely proud to watch him get up and speak, welcomed by a standing ovation.
We've had at least one request to share some more details in general on how the family is doing, even "mundane" ones. So here is a brief post on mundane things.
Mary Ann is still getting used to the new way things are, and some days feels like she is, "wading through oatmeal." She is TJ's home nurse for the time being, as he continues to regain strength.
I (Jon) am taking a January course at Bethel that may yet kill me, hence the time of this post. It requires more way reading and writing than I have energy to do.
Chip is taking a January course through another school (I forget which), which is wilderness first response training. I know he has been pumped about the course for awhile, but it is 8:00am-5:00pm everyday, and in Minnesota, these have not been warm days. (It has to have been at least a week since we hit double digits.)
It's hardest for me to speak for Chip as we haven't connected much, but for at least my mom and I the last several weeks are hitting. Through December we were running on borrowed energy, and we are now paying that back plus interest.
We will be trying (for real) to be posting more often, even mundane details, and probably more detailed details, but currently it is a struggle to find the energy wake up and go through the day, much less post at the end of it. But, if you are all willing to be praying for us, we are more than willingly to be posting!
Specifically:
- That TJ continues to recover and gain back his strength and voice
- That Mary Ann, Jon, and Chip find the energy to get through the day, and are able to rest at night
- That the daily and scholastic pressures don't suck us down
- Finally, that God's goodness and the miracles we have seen are not forgotten during these days when we continue to need to lean on God
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