An Anchor in Glory

There is not much to report this week except that no news is good news! Mama says her neuropathy pain might be improving, that is, lessening. We are excited although not sure what we should attribute it to, the fact that she has not had Taxol for 2 ½ weeks and she could be healing already? Or perhaps because she is no longer taking the Lyrica drug so her feet are not swelling so much, or maybe even the B vitamins she started taking last week are helping? Whatever it is we are thanking and praising the Lord especially now as we draw near Christmas and prepare our hearts with gratefulness to worship Him and celebrate His birth!
Speaking of which, this home is full of preparation and secrets, the savory smells of almond, saffron and cinnamon as the last few treats are baked and the hushed “Don’t look!”s as odd-shaped bundles wrapped in blankets are carted from room to room. Ben’s room especially is always shrouded in mystery. Every Christmas he makes special hand-made gifts and throughout the month of December we can hear curious hammerings and machinery and smells of burnt leather and wood stain seep out from under his door. :o) These small acts of generosity being such a wonderful reminder of the greatest gift of all…!
May you all be blessed this Christmas with a grateful comprehension of God’s love for us in giving us His Son “whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power….” “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” “For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:6-11, Hebrews 1:2-4, Romans 5:7-8)