ANNOUCING A TRUE MIRACLE FROM GOD

I received word yesterday that a few of our local church members and some other pastors from the district visited Rick Spell (my former pastor) in the hospital. They all gathered, laid hands and anointed Rick with Holy Water and began to pray. He responded and awoke from his coma.

The doctors are amazed. He is doing well, has been moved from ICU to a intermediate caare room and is gaining his strength back quickly.........GLORY TO GOD.

On another note, my sister Janet's mother-in-law, who has just completed her year long chemo treatments for breast cancer; has now been diagnosed with colon cancer. Please put the Lentz family on your prayer lists.

More prayers needed

I just received word, that my former Pastor Rick Spell has slipped into a coma. I do not know the details of his illness, but God knows and he can reverse the problems. Please add him & his family to your prayers.

PRAYERS, PRAYERS AND MORE PRAYERS NEEDED

Let me begin this post with " WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD"

I want everyone to pray for our entire family. We have two members of our family going through some really tough medical battles.

On September 16th we were once again devastated at the results of Dale's MRI scans. He now has metastatic bone cancer involving his entire spine, pelvis (both hips, the right being fully involved) and his femurs. Dale has been has been having some severe pain in his right hip for the past 2 months, this prompting the MRI. He is beginning radiation to his pelvic area, this is mainly for pain management. We visit his oncologist tomorrow for what we hope is news of how they plan to treat with chemotherapy. We are asking for EVERYONE that prays to add our family to your prayer lists.

We do not know what lies ahead.............but we know God is with us and will give us strength, grace and his abiding love through all we face.

Dale is once again being strong, he has never given up and continues to be the strong person he has always been. He knows God has a plan for his life, and he wants to be a testimony for whoever God puts in his path.

Our other prayer request is for my dad, he is facing some challenges with his health and needs our prayers.

Please visit Dale's Caring Bridge website http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/dalebumgarner

We appreciate all your prayers and thoughts.

Love in our Jesus Christ.

Susan

WHIRLWIND

YES I KNOW IT HAS BEEN OVER 5 MONTHS SINCE MY LAST POST.



I think the main reason for my absence is due to the fact that since obtaining an added work load at my office, (I am now managing our Huntsville AL office remotely) the last thing I want to do is sit and type on the computer.



But there have been so many changes in our lives recently that I thought I would share some and also put in a very much needed prayer request.

FIRST THE GOOD :

Dale has had 3 CT & Bone scans in the past 4 months and all have been great..........no new tumors or cancer. THANK YOU LORD JESUS.

Little Macie is getting to be quite the little character,she will soon be 7 months old. She is almost crawling, cutting teeth, rolling, rolling and did I say rolling on the floor. She loves all men (OH NO!!) she has the sweetest smile and those flirty eyes when her daddy, papa and any other male enters the room. GOD IS SO GOOD.

Keeley my oldest daughter has finally decided to seek the answers to her fertility issues. She was scared to go to a fertility doctor for fear of the dreaded, "you will never be able to bear a child". She is now in the first stages of treatment, seems the diabetic drug Glucophage can aid in becoming pregnant, this is treating her ploy cystic ovarian syndrome, they seem to think is the main culprit to infertility. If this is not successful then more testing and more treatments. PLEASE PRAY FOR KEELEY AND DEWEY.

NOW FOR SOME NOT SO GREAT NEWS

My youngest daughter Sarah and her husband are in the process of divorcing. This is a very shocking and disappointing (to say the least) event in our lives and family. There are so many "bad" issues involved with this.................we all need every ones prayers, God knows all the details of this life changing event and he can fix it all..........PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY.

As you can read there are many things that have changed and are changing, and the only solution to them is PRAYER, PRAYER AND PRAYER.

Until next time (who knows how long) please remember us all in your prayers.

UP DATES AND SUCH

First let me apologize in advance for the lengthy post. So much to say and give updates on.

I know I know, yes it has almost been a month since I posted. I suppose I just have not taken the time to sit and reflect on things that I could or should write about, or maybe I am being plain lazy. Lets see where do I begin.

Let me begin on a good note, our family was very please to celebrate my mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, we were blessed to have my dad's siblings from NC to join us. We had a very nice time and enjoyed the family time. As a result of this gathering and the trip by my Aunt Patricia and Uncle Lindon ; Dale's mom (also from NC) was able to come for a short visit. Trish if you happen to read this post, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for bringing Imogene along for the ride.

Now on to other happenings.

I trust that GOD is taking care of Dale's current cancer, I know God is in control and will bring us through this, but there is also the deep down worry about what lies ahead (I suppose this is human nature).

Dale began his radiation about three weeks ago and finished with his last treatment this past Monday, and then immediately began his Chemotherapy treatment. The type of chemo he is getting this round has fewer side effects and was not suppose to make him nauseated or sick, but like any type of treatment each person responds differently, so being the case Dale has been sick this entire week, he has been so sick he missed several days of work and has not been able to eat very much. And to add to the misery( more my misery than his) I have been away on a business trip, (mind you never again). He does seem to be feeling better and his appetite is slowing returning. I hope that his next treatment does not have this effect on him. We are awaiting the results of his recent MRI, it was recommended that he have an MRI of his brain to have a "baseline" to compare with scans in the future. Once he has had two rounds of this chemo he will be re-evaluated with more MRIs, scans and other tests to see how this recent cancer is responding to treatment.

We are definitely in need of much prayer (which I know we are getting) to get us through this trying time.

On a better note, Macie saw the cardiologist about three weeks ago and her little heart murmur was gone.........GOD is good.

Macie is growing so fast and is becoming more beautiful every day.

Janet (blogging with bully) has taken a new job with a local Radiology clinic and is soooo! glad to be back in the real world of working. I am very glad to have her back on our Sunday family lunches.

Now for me I have taken on an added responsibility at my job, I have been given an additional office to manage, thank goodness this can be done remotely and there will be no travel involved. So for now I go from a very relaxed work load to a very busy non stop work day.....wonder if GOD has this in place to keep my mind occupied, but whatever the reason I hope this means more job security.

As I stated in the beginning of this post I apologize for the length.......but these were things on my mind that needed to be released, and of course there have to be recent pictures added, so please enjoy.

DAD AND MOM WITH DAD'S BROTHER AND SISTER WITH THE SPOUSES

MACIE'S FIRST BLUE JEANS

MAMMAW AND HER FIRST GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER