Not Another Regular Saturday

How good it is to have Clay back home after 11 days in the hospital. Last Saturday we were still in Surgical Stepdown Unit after five days in the Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit. He had two nights in a regular room and now he is home. How wonderful the phone call from one of the surgeons on late Thursday that we could bring him home! So, this is not another regular Saturday in our home. It is a Saturday of rejoicing for the progress Clay has made. Rejoicing for the privilege of bringing him home. Rejoicing for 24 years with an angel kept earthbound. Rejoicing with anticipation at what mighty plans God still has in our lives. It has been a long two weeks; a difficult two weeks; a blessed two weeks. We have experienced sorrows and we have experienced great joys and blessings. We have been comforted and we have comforted. We have been lifted and we have lifted. We have cried and we have laughed. We give thanks to God that we will continue to receive His perfect will in our lives. I bought a couple of simple bracelets in the Pink Lady gift shop at the hospital. One has Faith Hope Joy Love and flips to and the greatest of these is LOVE. The other one says HAVE FAITH and flips to EXPECT MIRACLES. I will wear these to remind me of this difficult two weeks and remember the faith, hope, joy and love it has contained. I will continue to HAVE FAITH and I will most definitely continue to EXPECT MIRACLES. Thanks be to God.