As I am writing this update, Charlie is in surgery to have his pacemaker placed. It is a three hour surgery. On hospital day 12, I ask that you continue your prayers for him! Thank you.

My daughter, Laurel, broke her leg five weeks ago and was at the orthopaedic office today. She was able to have a short cast placed so she can walk on it, so it means that everything is healing well! When I asked her to pray for Papa, she said that it was a great day and he was going to be fine. She then proceeded to strike this pose for her grandpa as an encouragement for his surgery.

I can't help but remember as we all go through trials and tribulation, the words of Psalm 139:14-16:

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.