On our way home from visiting Dad last night, Joe and I were listening to "Showtune Saturday Night," a local radio program. They played a couple of selections from the musical Damn Yankees, one of which was the song "Heart" and I thought how applicable the lyrics are to Dad's situation.
You've gotta have heart
All you really need is heart
When the odds are sayin' you'll never win
That's when the grin should start
You've gotta have hope
Mustn't sit around and mope
Nothin's half as bad as it may appear
Wait'll next year and hope
When your luck is battin' zero
Get your chin up off the floor
Mister you can be a hero
You can open any door,
there's nothin' to it but to do it
God has given us each an amazing human spirit and promises us His strength in our weakness. I'm sure Dad gets discouraged, as any of us would. But he has so much heart, so much hope. If you've known Dad for any length of time, you know he never sees "problems" only "challenges." He's facing a big challenge, but if anyone is up to the challenge, he is.
Please continue to pray for healing of the pneumonia and that his blood pressure would stay down (it's still up and down, though more down and responding to medication, so that's good). And that Dad would remember just how much heart he has.
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Dear Leo, Teddie, Rachel & family,
The poet and song writer, William Cowper, who wrote the hymn Johnny Cash loved to sing--"God Moves In A Mysterious Way," also wrote a poem, "My Task." The words by this man who once tried to commit suicide are words of a man who knew grief. Yet he wrote in "My Task," "I was a stricken deer that left the herd, Long since; with many an arrow deep infixed, My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One Who had Himself been hurt by the archers. In His side He bore, And in His hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and healed, and bade me live."
What God has done for us in Christ spiritually, now I pray to God He will do for you physically, Leo. I pray He will pull out the darts of pneumonia and high blood pressure and give you a new heart--that He will command you to live.
That's what I pray, in Jesus' Name, Amen. I love you all,
Pastor Rich Carlson, Supt. IWD
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