Monday

It has been DIY since Friday. All the Home Health folks have been AWOL. Dad has been using this unstructured time to exercise on his own and rest. He took a sleep aid Friday night and took some cat naps all day Saturday. It was cool and rainy so it was a good day for it. Nancy and Madeline brought lunch in and gave Mom a break.

I was contemplating whether to call WRMC and read the riot act to the Home Health folks who seem to have gone to the low end of 3 to 5 days and remembered a sermon by Dr. John Claypool entitled; "The World is Full of Wonders" dealing with miracles. In it is this paragraph:

"The Anglican theologian, Geddes MacGregor, has written an insightful volume entitled, He Who Lets Us Be. His contention is that God shows His affection for us as much by what He does not do as by what He does do. The book is a reflection upon Simone Weil's statement, "Creation was the moment when God ceased to be everything so that we humans could be something." All of this suggests that there may well be just as much Divine love expressed when problems are not resolved miraculously as when they are. Saint Paul came to the profound conviction that God's refusal to remove his well-known thorn in the flesh resulted in even greater blessing to his life than if it had been removed miraculously. He concluded, "When I am weak, then I am strong," indicating that his spirit was strengthened in ways that it never could have been had God intervened dramatically. (II Corinthians 12)".

I have to keep reminding myself that we have been truly blessed even through being cursed. God knows what He is doing and what He is not doing and Dad is really something!

Sunday I offered to let Mom go to church but they got up late and so we will try again next weekend. Mike and Cindy came Sunday morning and brought lunch with them. They stayed until mid afternoon today.

Dad's favorite PT came by this morning while I was there putting the tiller on the tractor and gave Dad a good workout. I asked him how he was doing and he said that he is getting stronger and just needs to continue to focus on some techniques in walking and standing and sitting. I left to till my garden while they ate lunch. Dad had a shower while I was gone and Mom left Cindy and Mike in charge while she went shopping and ran some errands. Dad looked strong albeit a little drained. The nurse and OT had not been by yet and I don't know if they made it this afternoon. Mike and Cindy were a blessing this weekend and made it home okay.

Charlotte and I are expecting Adalynn and Kelsey tomorrow so I hope we can provide some Great Grandchild therapy for a little while.

God is good!