Week 2 – Graduation in Alto Texas

My second week started off quite like my first week of Sabbatical. Getting all 3 kids packed in the car and headed East (Just not as far East as Florida). We were headed to the big city of Alto Texas (Population 1,223). We were going there for my nieces High School Graduation. The weekend was very relaxing and it was wonderful to be with family, but this time it was a little different. My Mother and Father couldn’t make the trip. My Father the week earlier was picking up broken limbs from the storms we’ve had these past couple of weeks and hurt his back pretty severely. So much so that he’ll be having back surgery in July. My Father is the most Godly man that I have ever known. He pours his heart and soul into others and into the Lord more than anyone I’ve ever seen. This has been very hard on our family, because he’s basically in pain all day every day. We have prayed more into the Lord healing his back than ever, and things just seem to be the same. We are confident that God has a plan for this and will ultimately heal him, and we will continue to pray until it happens. Needless to say, when we returned from the Graduation our plans changed a bit. We have been driving to Winters and helping out my parents as much as we can with things around their house. I can tell that the hardest for my Father is not being able to get out and work. He loves to work outside with his hands, either in the wood shop, garden, chicken coop or his new orchard. I completely believe that God has his hands on this situation and that my Father will experience physical healing either by the miraculous or by surgery.