Good News!

Greetings! Well, interesting developments. Dad had a subsequent scan done in Manila with greater contrast, and the "spot" was revealed to scar tissue, not cancer! Crazy how life works like that. So the surgery is canceled, and Dad is in the process of getting a ticket to come back home tomorrow. Almost seems surreal but that's the news! So why did God have us find the spot only to discover it is scar tissue? I don't really know, but I'm quite content with the outcome. And what about the events in this life that don't conclude so happily? For those of us who's hope is in Christ, we don't need to fear them, even though they can be hard. It has been four years since Mom died, and though I miss her, the way God has used that whole trial has changed me and grown me in ways I would never would have expected at the time. I'll see her again. And until God takes me home, I'll live out my faith here on the earth. I will consider it all joy as he molds and conforms me to the image of my savior. Thank you all for praying.