Heaven to Gain, Hell to Shun

Wednesday I went to visit a dear widow of a preacher friend of ours from WV who died almost 4 years ago.  She came down to babysit for the week for her daughter.  It was a wonderful 3-hour visit!

Last yesterday afternoon Tim was running a temperature of 101, which he is known to do when he has a cold, but it affects him differently than it used to.  I think it probably has something to do with the cancer treatments, but I don't know.  Anyway, I asked him if he was going to cancel the services, knowing before I asked that he would not.

Well, he did fine, except for the coughing, right up to the end of the service.  He got to the last couple of verses and without making comment on them, read through them quickly, asked Calvin to dismiss in prayer and he headed for the bench on the platform.  I knew he was probably feeling light headed and felt faint.  At least he knows to sit down now, unlike the first time when he pushed himself, thinking he could make it to the end, but he ended up passed out in the floor!

I asked one of the men to please walk with him over to the parsonage, knowing first hand that if he began passing out, I could not hold him and would not be able to get him up after he was down.  He started with chills at the house and asked me to throw some blankets into the dryer to heat up.  He took some Nyquil after awhile and finally went to bed so I could wrap him up in the warm blankets and add the regular bed clothing on top of those.  That was probably around 9 p.m.  He got up after about 1 1/2 - 2 hours.  I went to bed at midnight.  He didn't come back to bed til 1:30.  Then he was back up at around 5 a.m.

No daily photo since Tim was not feeling great today.

Thursday
I've still had some stomach issues off and on, so I told him we just needed to stay home today so he could rest.  I didn't feel much like dragging around to a bunch of thrift stores today with my stomach being messed up.  I decided today would be a perfect day for some homemade chicken noodle soup.

By the time the soup was ready for lunch, Tim was ready to get out of the house and at least do our 2 Goodwills near us.  We left the house around 1:00.  We ended up going to the Salvation Army store down the street from one of the Goodwills, too.  All we found was a couple of books for me.

Later on in the day we decided to go someplace close for dinner.  We went to Zoe's about 5 miles from here.  My stomach still being a bit messed up, I only ate a few bites of my potato soup and half of my BLT.

Our daily photo taken at Zoe's

Also, for those of you who know Buford and Ilene Martin, Buford passed away today around 12:15 p.m.  Please pray for Ilene and the family.  His greatest desire is that his family members be prepared to meet God in heaven.  I pray through the testimony of Buford's life that his family realizes there is a Heaven to gain and a Hell to shun!

Here's praying for a better tomorrow for Tim.  Nite!