Stay Cool?

How do we stay cool in heat like this?

1. only hang out in air conditioned places
2. huddle around the fan
3. have a 24 hour long water fight
4. dont move too much
5. stand in a cold shower
6. drop ice cubes down your top and your pants
7. drink buckets of water
8. go to the mall - as long as it is air conditioned
9. dream of snow - but not too much cause I hate to shovel
10. eat a ton of freezies
11. hang your head in the deep freezer, while looking for said freezies
12. find a body of water and get in (lake, pool, bathtub, kiddie pool)

Keep adding to the list- as we all think of ways to cool off - maybe we will start to feel cool! I for on am sitting in the living room with the air conditioner and a spray bottle of cold water, spraying my legs and feet!

Home!

Today Phil came home! This is a good thing. No more driving around looking for a parking spot at the hospital. And I am sure if you asked Phil he is happy to be here too. We picked up a prescription for pain killers, grabbed some easy heat in the microwave meals and came home.

Phil has his computer in front of him, his feet up and a smile on his face. Brian is playing wii and I am nursing a headache. Hoping it will be gone really soon as I am going out tonight.

All in all, this has been a good day!!! I am so happy that Phil is home.

Now that was scary!

I want to thank you all for your prayers of the past couple of days!

What a scare we have had. To fill you all in, this began about 4 days ago. Phil had a pain on his left side. It continued to get worse and worse and worse. On Thursday morning we drove to the hospital. Phil was in severe pain. Over the next few hours, he was seen by the doctor, hooked up with some morphine, had a cat scan and then we waited for results. Turned out there was a foreign object in the small intestine that had perforated the wall and a raging infection was brewing. The only treatment option was surgery. So after a very brief conversation with the surgeon - an emergency surgery was scheduled.

Surgery went as well as could be expected. And Phil went from there to an acute care ward (like an icu - one nurse to each patient) I was told that he would be there for 24 - 48 hours. He did so well he was moved to the Maxi Care ward ( 2 patients to each nurse) less than 24 hours after surgery.

He continues to do very well. He looks very strange, tubes everywhere and machinery monitoring him.

We are praying that he continues to do well. Hoping he will be home in a week and able to attend Tara and Chris's wedding on the 25th.

He is able to have visitors, 2 at a time and for short periods of time. His parents came to see him this evening. All the kids have been there of course. It meant so much to him to know that all the girls were there during the surgery. He loved seeing Brian today. Even if he was abit scared that Brian might poke him!

When I left him this evening, he was "watching" the space channel. His eyes were closed and he seemed very peaceful. I am praying that he has a good night.

Again, thank you all for your prayers!

J.O.Y. Mine

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Went to Church this morning - not unlike every other Sunday really. Went to our home Church, Calvary Christian Church. The morning was very much like other Sundays, we went to Tim Horton's on the way for breakfast. Nothing unusual....

That is until Praise and Worship time. During worship I was struck by the words the songs, songs that were very familiar to me. nothing really new - just a new meaning. Isn't it amazing how that can happen. One of the songs we sang was, When I Survey the Wonderous Cross, a hymn written in 1707! The words of the hymn (as we sang it today):

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from his head, his hands, his feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown

Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all

As we sang this song, and others, like Enough and I Surrender, I was struck by the joy that is found in trusting Jesus with our lives. And the Joy in knowing that God never fails! (thank you Ruth for your word!) The Joy in knowing that we were so important to God that he sacrificed his own son for our salvation.

So cool when a God uses a Sunday morning service to reveal something! Even in the sermon this morning God continued to reveal Joy to me.

So thankful that I made the decision to get up and go to Church this morning!