An Anchor in Glory

Good Morning Everyone, 
I hope you all had blessed Christmas celebrations full of the knowledge of God’s goodness and focused on heaven’s Giver of Life! 
We spent the weekend playing music for Christmas Eve (our family’s universally ascribed favorite service), enjoying Ben’s repeated and improved Luke 2:1-21 recitations, savoring Daddy’s buttery shrimp and Mama’s “Bruna Bönor” and “Saffron Bulle”, conversing on endless topics, learning a game Daddy played with his family when he was young(!), relishing the books and documentaries we gave each other as gifts endeavoring to absorb some of the wealth of wisdom and good information in them... It was a precious time. 
Yesterday’s appointments went very well; God gave us confidence and clarity of purpose regarding the order of Mom’s future treatment and surgery, a certain answer to prayer. There was some question of resuming Taxol and whether it would interfere with the surgery schedule, general treatment schedules, etc. Previously, I wrote that it was not likely Mom’s nerve pain would diminish to barely noticeable. I’m not sure how or why (except for the working of God) but her symptoms have decreased to the point where once again we discussed Taxol treatments, not necessarily a preferred topic for deliberation by this time. :) We were also a little apprehensive of our appointment yesterday morning because we were not scheduled to see our regular oncologist.  Like so many times before, all this was brought before our heavenly Father and we were blessed to see Him still our souls and prepare a path for us, bringing clarity out of uncertainty. We have plans to proceed with surgery in the next few weeks (with no positive date until we meet with the surgeon on January 4th) and then possibly, if Mom’s nerve pain continues to heal as it has she will finish as many Taxol treatments as possible.  We choose to trust in Him who has proven Himself infinitely faithful on our behalf.  In the next few days, we would appreciate prayer specifically for wisdom in surgery decisions, that God would provide us with clear, definitive answers to our questions, so we will know what pleases Him and be confident in it. Please know we love and appreciate you so much and are forever ineffably grateful for all your prayers.