Growing or declining??

Alyssa reading in our front yard.

Every individual is growing, changing, developing,
or declining—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually,
physically, and psychologically.

A family is a grouping of individuals who are affecting
each other intellectually, emotionally, spiritually,
physically, psychologically.

~ Edith Schaeffer, What Is a Family?

Two new links on the side to take note of...

• One is the lovely picture of a young lady I recently learned about who needs prayer!  On Jan. 11, 38-yr-old Joanne suffered a major stroke.   She has been kept in a drug induced coma waiting for swelling of her brain to decrease. Currently they are trying to slowly bring her out of the coma. Her doctors have cautioned that the outcome seems not very hopeful.  Click on the picture at the side here and it should take you to her blog that now her husband is keeping up, with postings of how all of this transpired and how it is progressing ~  including prayer requests.  If you can spare the time, I urge you to go back in the blog entries and read the entries that her husband has posted. Read his prayer requests and see if you can get through them without tears. I found them very touching!  It has made me realize how thankful I should be,  regardless of how life seems to be going.!  From one day to the next we really have simply the "right now".   Tomorrow is not a "given" ~ either at all or in its often expected sameness with today.  I invite you to read; then pray for these sweet folks.

• Lastly,  there is a study in the book of Titus by Alistair Begg called Guard the Truth..Getting It Right. We listened to one on the radio while traveling home from town the other day.  It was so good.  I am hoping each one is ~ so far I have found them to be so.  I decided to put access to them on my blog partially for myself so it's easy for me to get to. Also, so anyone who may want to be challenged along with me can easily access it by a simple click.