Monday, June 30, 2008

Prayer request

I don't have a lot to post tonight, just a prayer request for three family members on my mom's side. The first is for my great-aunt, Eva. She just turned 100 years old in March. I guess she has taken a turn for the worse and the Lord is finally calling her home. Can you imagine the changes she has seen in her 100 years? Everything from electricity to indoor plumbing, cars to computers. Next I have two uncles who are not doing well. One, Jerry, just found out 3 weeks ago he is full of cancer and is already on hospice care. I've been told he is unable to keep anything down and is very jaudiced. He is also wracked with pain and feels just plain miserable. My other uncle, John, has been in complete kidney failure for over 1 1/2 years, on kidney dialysis, and now having more heart trouble. He was already clinically dead for 10 minutes and was brought back. He is home and hanging in there, but getting tired of the fluid restrictions and meds he is one. Please pray that if God wants them Home, that their passing is peaceful and painfree. My uncles have suffered enough, let what time they have left be pleasant.

This past weekend, we had a family reunion for my Dad's side. We had a good crowd, over 100 people came out for the party. What a weird day of weather...we had a thunderstorm, lots of thunder and rain, and then a wild hailstorm. You could see this wall of white coming down the valley towards us, we all thought it was a wall of rain at first, WRONG! We had pea-sized hail for several minutes and the temperature dropped drastically. We all could see our breath as we talked for the next hour. Kids started going down the giant slip-n-slide with hail still floating in the splash-down pond. Brrrrr. I have decided to take on the task of setting up our family tree. If anyone has any ideas or tips, please feel free to share. I need all the help I can get.

Andrew had a baseball tourney this weekend. His team won one game and lost the other three. His team ended up in fourth place overall, not bad. He has a game in Tomah on Tues and then in Brice Prairie on Thur. I thought this wasn't a traveling team?