Email Update

Hello Everyone,

Thank you more than I can articulately convey for your invaluable prayers and encouraging emails. As an update, my grandfather's health has improved more than we could have hoped. The morning of my email, his fever was 103.7, and he was refusing to eat and drink. The fire department had visited twice over the past two days due to a fall and his increasing fever. We honestly thought that it was time. I arrived at 3pm, one hour before the intensive care hospice nurse. A few minutes before the nurse came in, Grandpa awoke on his own and was relatively chatty. The nurse took his temperature and found that it had gone down to 98.6! I am convinced this was an answer to prayer. Though the fever rose again in the evening, it never reached 100 degrees. We saw Grandpa on Christmas, and though his health is generally precarious, he is out of danger. It was a blessing to be able to spend time with him when he was in good spirits and mobile enough to move out of bed.

As for myself, I am home in Fillmore until I find a job. The search was postponed for about a week and a half for Christmas, 24-hour stomach flu, a wedding in San Diego, and moving. Though I wish for employment, I am reminding myself to be open to what God wants for me in Fillmore. If "nothing else," I will be able to spend significant time with my family and friends in Ventura County and perhaps travel a bit north to visit other friends. It has occured to me during my over-zealous analyzing that God is also blessing me with the free time for which I have so often longed over the past three years. In this period of my life I am reminded again and again of Ephesians 2:10, which is written in the context of our salvation by grace through faith - For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them.

Amen! And thanks again.

Katie