Blessings about Mom

The gathering at Appleby's Sunday evening.




We got up and went right to Berne for a tremendous blessing. We went into Mom’s room and she recognized both of us. Her hair was white--something she would have never tolerated--and she had a deep cough but made sense in her conversation most of the time. When she didn’t, we think we were just unable to hear what she was saying. Her voice would come and go into a whisper. She was in a Jerry chair and seemed to feel pretty good. She said she had no pains in her chest. We were blessed to spend an hour with her (Evelyn read to her) but left so as to avoid making her exhausted. She recognized and enjoyed seeing pictures of her great grandchildren. We came back and had lunch of leftover pork chops from Lambert’s restaurant. They were still delicious. Just as we finished, John and Dixie came to visit a while. I left to work on the stack of e-mail so as to not upset them and cause conflict in their visit with Evelyn. They had a nice visit, talking a great deal about their son, Justin, and his involvement with the military. He has received a promotion to Major. That is a great honor for all of them. I finally came back, and we went off to do laundry. What fun! I went to buy beer at the CVS pharmacy and found a deal on the glucosomine chondroitin that Evelyn needed. I returned to help fold the laundry and we returned for a nap and dinner. We decided to visit a Christian friend who is being treated for breast cancer. We had a good visit and supported her and her husband with prayer. We came back to the coach and watched the finish of Seabiscuit. We love that film. We were also blessed this afternoon when another coach came in for repair. We had been the only ones here and worried that the operation had been moved to another location. We are more confident now.






We went to church in Decatur where we were blessed to find one of my lay minister mentors leading the Bible class. He is pastor David Schlie who is one of the most Spirit filled LCMS pastors I have ever met. He can’t hear well but still teaches the Word magnificently. We left there after worship and had some leftovers here and then went to Berne to see Mom. She was eating and finished soon after we arrived and we talked for around an hour. We noticed that she was not as lucid as yesterday. She still coughed and was much more drowsy. It was right after she had eaten. We aren’t certain how she is mentally but may exist like this for weeks. We returned here for a nap and then left to meet Louise, Evelyn’s former secretary, and Whitney, the wife of the man who replaced her. We had dinner at Appleby’s and then went to visit Tom and Janet Grotrian, dear Christian friends we used to reunion with. After returning to our unit, I called Ned Knape and arranged to go to a minor league baseball game tomorrow night. We spent the rest of the evening at home.