4/28/2022

4-28 Zac Update

This month has been rolling by so fast I can hardly keep up. I’ve sat to begin a dozen updates but continually find myself either distracted or at loss for words. Yet Easter Weekend struck me with great remembrance of our journey last Easter, still in Denver, Colorado where we were learning to manage a new course that had been set before us. What a year it’s been.

This year, the Saturday before Easter struck me most. I found the silence of the day before Resurrection Sunday to be a place I can often find myself living now - The space between the cross and the resurrection, between heartache and hope fulfilled.

Jesus had equipped His Disciples with all of the Truth they would need to maintain hope in the confusion of their loss as they watched their Savior die.

But they had to wait out the silent Saturday, the application of hope yet to come.

For not only was there a greater hope beyond their loss, but the Loss itself would become the Hope they didn’t even know they needed.

I was reminded of this again in my journey with Zachary: just because you don’t clearly see God’s work at this moment does not mean He is not working.

I find myself living in silent Saturdays - Days between knowing the truth and seeing hope fulfilled.

Yet we do not have to wait for Sunday as the Disciples did. For our Hope has been completed in Jesus resurrection.

So now it comes down to an application of the heart - a work to maintain joy because I live in the truth that Jesus will indeed do all He said He would do.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers for Zac. We still need them more than ever.

pray for our return to the Mayo Clinic this weekend for his six month check-up after his stem cell injection. They will do a full sensory evaluation and we do believe the doctors will see many changes!

Pray for our flights there and back as well as our midnight landings. Travel will be a bit rough!

pray for pain management. There is a daily silent suffering for those with spinal cord injuries that make them heroic in my eyes… the spontaneous leg spasms and nerve pain….

Some days are worse than others, and not to minimize it, but truly, the joy of the Lord is our strength… we look for hope to cling to and Zacs humor moves us past it all.

pray for continued therapy. God is building him an awesome team of local therapists here, physical and massage, that are learning with us, challenging him physically and bringing relief to his pain. We are so thankful for them!!

pray pray pray for the closure of our house remodels. We are still holding up in a temporary rental house as we make our new place accessible for Zac. Progress is very slow, workers are few, vision is challenging as we have fully gutted one bathroom and are trying to create a roll-in shower with the space that we have.

So those silent Saturdays, those moments between the cross and the resurrection… I must remember that God is still bringing to pass all that He said He would even if the day is quiet and the heart is full of questions. Jesus’ resurrection reminds me that our promise fulfilled is coming.