Just a quick update on Luke. He is not doing well. He has thrown up several times in the past two hours and has severe abdominal pains. The Docs are tinkering with him trying to figure out what is going on. The upside is that Luke’s colon does appear to be working (barely though). One of the Docs came in and showed us an xray that was taken Friday night that shows that there is activity in the colon. Now our issue is the nausea and pain. We are still not sure when we will be coming home.
So, I am asking you to pray.
A few days ago, I said to God, “This sucks. You raised a dude from the dead! All I am asking is a little help with my son’s intestines.”
This Sunday night, we will be showing “Shadowlands” as part of our church’s summer film festival. It’s about C.S. Lewis’ marriage to Joy Gresham and his loss of her to cancer. Here are some quotes from the film that we will be using in our roundtable discussion that have helped me this week. I realize that Luke does not have cancer, but all suffering in any form is used by God to make us more dependent on Him. Here are the quotes:
“Suffering is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, you learn.”
“Something…. something must drive us out of the nursery and into the world of others, and that something is suffering.”
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God, it changes me.”
“I’m not sure that God wants us to be happy. I think He wants us to be able to love and be loved.”
“How could Joy be my wife?… I’d have to love her, wouldn’t I? I’d have to care more for her than anyone else in this world. I’d have to be suffering the torments of the damned, the prospect of losing her.”
Praying for Luke, and the rest of you all as you deal with this. Praying that the nausea goes away.
Praying for Luke and you guys too.
Pastor Scott have faith in the Lord and he shall set you free. He loves you, Luke and the whole family. He is with you. Your church family is with you. We are all praying for Luke.
We love you all very much!
Give Luke a kiss.
Kathe Rod and Dylan
We are so sorry Luke is having problems and are praying for healing.
With love in Christ, Franklin and Sadie (McKaig) TFBC
To say God causes our suffering to draw us closer and more dependant upon Him makes since to us naturally but yet that makes Him seem so harsh and we know He is not harsh to those whom He loves, especially the little children. I believe that He is weeping with you and the suffering Luke is going through is painful for Him to see and I don’t believe He wants that anymore than He wanted to see Abraham sacrifice Isaac. Scott, see God’s perfect love for you and Amy and Luke and believe on Jesus and His finished work at the cross, behold the Son of God, He is our healer, he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, mighty and powerful, compassionate and loving. keep your focus on Jesus, not on what you see, not on your faith but on Him. I love you all and I will not stop praying and believing in Luke’s full healing and recovery.
I’m so sorry to hear of Luke’s problems during post-surgery. I hope he feels better quickly. We are keeping you all on our prayers.
My heart breaks every time I read your updates on Luke.
Kelly’s children are here visiting this week….and I can not even imagine how I could handle one of them being in the hospital – especially being so far away from them.
We would love to visit Luke in Winston Salem in the next few days if he is up to having company. Would he like to meet his cousins, Johanna is 10, Jake is 8 and Lily is only 4. I thought it best to ask you first, before writing to Scott.
If not, the kids would love to send him a homemade card and may be a picture or two. Should we send it to the hospital or home?