Dan

Below is a message that came today from a dear friend who went to church with us when Dan preached for the Cedars Church of Christ in Delaware. G gave us permission to share his message with you. He knows us so well. He said exactly what is on our hearts. G & B have been close friends of ours for 43 years. We hope you have some friends like them.
- Anne and Dan

"D’nA (I’m sure you’ve thought many times how your DNA has linked you to the Lord’s over the years),

I don’t know how to feel about the recent news (yesterday’s included). In most ways, it seems to describe developments that lean toward almost-finality (not the end of life, but treatment that begins the end of some long days of waiting and healing). Yet I can imagine that the trust you place in earthly physicians must be what it is because you have been asking the Great Physician for medical guidance and healing, knowing that He will likely be working through DFW physicians for the restoration you seek.

Placing things in God’s hands is not always easy. Eagerness to return to Romania, I’m sure, is not easily replaced with resigned anticipation like “Well, it’s in the Lord’s hands now,” “Well, He has given me/us a long life of kingdom service,” etc. Whatever the many mind-flashes are that can come only to one who has lived close enough to the Lord to consider daily the transitory nature of this physical life, I’m also sure that things are still unsettling if not difficult.

I can vividly recall the best preacher* Cedars ever had exhorting us to remember that we’re but strangers “here, within a foreign land” whose “home is far away, upon a golden strand” and who need to realize the nature of our ambassadorship and how important it is in our “message/business” for the King.

I hope these few words don’t sound dark, gloomy, even morbid. They aren’t meant that way at all.

Just trying to put myself in your place (and I would, if only for 6 weeks — but guess that’s not possible or even necessary).

Will pray hard. -- G & B"

*(Dan)