Friday, Sept. 17th Update from Joni

Friday, September 17th Update from Joni:

Deep breathing, they say, is the best thing you can do for pneumonia, so this weekend you’ll find me inhaling to the max… counting to five… then slowly exhaling. Many times :-). However, I tend to think singing is also a good remedy — nothing like stretching your lungs to reach the high notes on  “Breathe on Me Breath of God.” Who would’ve ever thought hymns could be so restorative for both soul and body :-)! “Breathe on me breath of God, fill me with life anew; that I may love what Thou dost love, and do what Thou wouldst do.”

The wonderful insights, stories, scriptures and hymns you friends keep posting on my blog are so refreshing. Al Sanders wrote,

“What a great book is Isaiah, especially Isaiah 42:3. God promises to take us through the water, through the flood and through the fire (unscorched, no less). Unquestionably,” Al says, “the greatest preposition in the entire English language is through.”

He’s right. In our kitchen sits a small plaque made of rock with these simple words carved in it: If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it. And so, yea, though I walk through the valley of cancer, chemotherapy, and pneumonia, I will not fear. For God is with me!
 
Join me in praying this weekend for our Healthcare Ethics Conference which we are cosponsoring with Cedarville University — scores of students are signed up and we long to have them catch the vision of a genuine biblical worldview when it comes to life value and the human dignity of all people with disabilities, young and old. Also remember our Wheels for the World team in Ukraine — ask God to open hearts to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!