Comments for FFH http://ffh.net Far From Home Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by Rob Snyder http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/BJhZUJo2EFY/ Rob Snyder Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:59:35 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=381#comment-163 Jeromy- I know where you're coming from. I write this from a lobby in the UW Hospital in Madison WI. Our family has been away from home since last Wed as my 22-year old daughter has had surgery to remove her colon. She has been battling ulcerative colitis these past five years. My pastor has always counseled me to be ready to be ministered to in unexpected ways. Thus far our faith has carried us through these very trying times. Praise to God that we have something to hang on to. Our daughter is also receiving excellent care. The real blessing is that my daughter's surgery was orginally scheduled for July 28. However, the doctor's office told us to be ready on the 16th as there was an opening. Our daughter prepped for the surgery-that meant no food for two days and drinking a gallon of this "clean-out" nastiness. Then we told that the 16th was in fact incorrect-the 28th was her day of surgery. Talk about evelvated emotions. When my daughter learned of the mix-up, she was broken. That valley was very dark. We had to take her to the emergency room. Eventually she was admitted to the hospital, the hospital admitted its mistake (be ready on the 16th) and our daughter's surgeon decided to perform the surgery last Saturday when he could have easily waited till Monday (yesterday). What surgeon would come in on his day off when the situation was not life/death? Long story-short version--this scheduling mix up-which caused me to be more upset than I've ever been in my life-actually got my daughter into surgery 11 days earlier than she should have been officially. 11 fewer days of suffering from a condition which had elevated significantly this past month and was causing her no end of physically pain. This journey isn't over yet for us and I don't know how to end this post other than to say to you-keep sharing your story, you are inspiring others in ways that you aren't aware. His Peace, Rob Snyder Platteville, WI Jeromy-

I know where you’re coming from. I write this from a lobby in the UW Hospital in Madison WI. Our family has been away from home since last Wed as my 22-year old daughter has had surgery to remove her colon. She has been battling ulcerative colitis these past five years.

My pastor has always counseled me to be ready to be ministered to in unexpected ways. Thus far our faith has carried us through these very trying times. Praise to God that we have something to hang on to.

Our daughter is also receiving excellent care.

The real blessing is that my daughter’s surgery was orginally scheduled for July 28. However, the doctor’s office told us to be ready on the 16th as there was an opening. Our daughter prepped for the surgery-that meant no food for two days and drinking a gallon of this “clean-out” nastiness.

Then we told that the 16th was in fact incorrect-the 28th was her day of surgery. Talk about evelvated emotions. When my daughter learned of the mix-up, she was broken. That valley was very dark. We had to take her to the emergency room.

Eventually she was admitted to the hospital, the hospital admitted its mistake (be ready on the 16th) and our daughter’s surgeon decided to perform the surgery last Saturday when he could have easily waited till Monday (yesterday). What surgeon would come in on his day off when the situation was not life/death?

Long story-short version–this scheduling mix up-which caused me to be more upset than I’ve ever been in my life-actually got my daughter into surgery 11 days earlier than she should have been officially. 11 fewer days of suffering from a condition which had elevated significantly this past month and was causing her no end of physically pain.

This journey isn’t over yet for us and I don’t know how to end this post other than to say to you-keep sharing your story, you are inspiring others in ways that you aren’t aware.

His Peace,

Rob Snyder
Platteville, WI

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/19/meridees-monday-14/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by ergeebee http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/fV8dU6mfi4U/ ergeebee Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:11:37 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=365#comment-161 Wow. I must be behind because I just read this. I live in Portland, Oregon, where it's OK to do the most indecent things imaginable in the streets. That is, it's legal, not OK. And it does make you more intense about a relationship with God. But at the same time it can make you very tired. Some days I'm ready to pack up everything and move to Franklin. --- Listening to "Undone" and realizing that you are right: very few people want to pay the asking price. Wow. I must be behind because I just read this. I live in Portland, Oregon, where it’s OK to do the most indecent things imaginable in the streets. That is, it’s legal, not OK. And it does make you more intense about a relationship with God. But at the same time it can make you very tired. Some days I’m ready to pack up everything and move to Franklin.
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Listening to “Undone” and realizing that you are right: very few people want to pay the asking price.

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/06/07/meridees-monday-11/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by Michele Erwin http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/XSudNRCVRBg/ Michele Erwin Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:44:59 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=381#comment-160 When I was a senior in high school, my parents had to sell our house and move in with my grandparents. My dad wasn't the head of the household and my mom, who has had various executive positions in corporate America was painfully unemployed for over a year. I can honestly say that that year of unbelievable stress and uncertainty for my parents was my favorite year of school, and I hold the memories I made with my grandparents in that time tightly in my heart. I have no doubt that Hutch will treasure this summer of adventure, that Sadie and Mi Mi and Pop Pop are making sweet sweet memories in their times without mommy and daddy around. Blessings!! When I was a senior in high school, my parents had to sell our house and move in with my grandparents. My dad wasn’t the head of the household and my mom, who has had various executive positions in corporate America was painfully unemployed for over a year. I can honestly say that that year of unbelievable stress and uncertainty for my parents was my favorite year of school, and I hold the memories I made with my grandparents in that time tightly in my heart. I have no doubt that Hutch will treasure this summer of adventure, that Sadie and Mi Mi and Pop Pop are making sweet sweet memories in their times without mommy and daddy around. Blessings!!

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/19/meridees-monday-14/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Comment on Merridee’s Monday by Pam Stenquist http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/yPSqdy81ggk/ Pam Stenquist Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:29:27 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=379#comment-159 I just read a quote that pretty much sums up so many of the unanswered and unanswerable dilemmas...."Life has no guarantees, but GOD does" I heard your interview on K-Love and appreciated what you both had to say so very much. I was diagnosed with MS 16 years ago, mine is relapsing/remitting, so I am doing pretty darn good most of the time. But I still deeply resonated with all the ups and downs and mysteries of this condition. In fact one of the symptoms that you described - shingles type pain - comes on every now and again and now I know it is probably just part of the deal. I keep working on getting and staying healthier so the "internal soldiers" can do a better job fending off an attack. Sounds a lot like spiritual warfare, huh?!? And in many ways it is, because I will be doing fine and then all of a sudden a flare-up will hit me on a blind side when I am not expecting it. So onward and upward. GOD bless you guys! PS "Undone" is an amazing song--true to the core! I just read a quote that pretty much sums up so many of the unanswered and unanswerable dilemmas….”Life has no guarantees, but GOD does” I heard your interview on K-Love and appreciated what you both had to say so very much. I was diagnosed with MS 16 years ago, mine is relapsing/remitting, so I am doing pretty darn good most of the time. But I still deeply resonated with all the ups and downs and mysteries of this condition. In fact one of the symptoms that you described – shingles type pain – comes on every now and again and now I know it is probably just part of the deal. I keep working on getting and staying healthier so the “internal soldiers” can do a better job fending off an attack. Sounds a lot like spiritual warfare, huh?!? And in many ways it is, because I will be doing fine and then all of a sudden a flare-up will hit me on a blind side when I am not expecting it. So onward and upward. GOD bless you guys!
PS “Undone” is an amazing song–true to the core!

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/12/merridee%e2%80%99s-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Comment on Merridee’s Monday by brooke lynn http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/Sk2xBZYvL9k/ brooke lynn Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:32:48 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=379#comment-158 wow, this is really great. God moved us 800 miles from home and we are in the wilderness right now. but, He's provided everything we have needed. yet, it is hard not to find ourselves depressed and in a funk. we are praying God's will and timing...kinda hard sometimes for a control freak :) thank you for sharing your lives with us. i love that you spent some time in africa, can't wait to go there one day! we love the song "undone". hang in there guys, God is always Good!!!! {i had trouble posting a comment, sorry if it appears more than once}. brooke lynn wow, this is really great.

God moved us 800 miles from home and we are in the wilderness right now. but, He’s provided everything we have needed. yet, it is hard not to find ourselves depressed and in a funk. we are praying God’s will and timing…kinda hard sometimes for a control freak :)

thank you for sharing your lives with us. i love that you spent some time in africa, can’t wait to go there one day! we love the song “undone”.
hang in there guys, God is always Good!!!!
{i had trouble posting a comment, sorry if it appears more than once}.
brooke lynn

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/12/merridee%e2%80%99s-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Comment on Merridee’s Monday by brooke lynn http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/36Lar1e3j6Y/ brooke lynn Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:39 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=379#comment-157 this is really good. we are going through our own wilderness. God has been right there through it all providing for us yet it's hard not to get depressed or in a funk. We are praying for HIS will to be done, in HIS timing. not too easy for a control freak! :) thanks so much for sharing. love the song "undone". i'm amazed by your move to africa and back, can't wait to visit one day myself. hang in there guys, God is always good. love. this is really good.
we are going through our own wilderness. God has been right there through it all providing for us yet it’s hard not to get depressed or in a funk. We are praying for HIS will to be done, in HIS timing. not too easy for a control freak! :)

thanks so much for sharing. love the song “undone”.
i’m amazed by your move to africa and back, can’t wait to visit one day myself.
hang in there guys,
God is always good.
love.

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/12/merridee%e2%80%99s-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by Andee http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/cXjj88USZAM/ Andee Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:00:10 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=376#comment-156 This is totally unrelated. I heard on either Air1 or Klove the other day that one of the band members was diagnosed with MS. I immediately thought of a friend of mine. Her daughter has recently been diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Her doctor told her that a lot of people of mistakenly diagnosed as having MS when in reality it is a co-infection that is popping up as a result of Lyme Disease. I thought I would send you a website/article to check out. It isn't the same doctor, but it is a good article. http://www.naturalnews.com/029179_Lyme_disease_remedies.html This is totally unrelated. I heard on either Air1 or Klove the other day that one of the band members was diagnosed with MS. I immediately thought of a friend of mine. Her daughter has recently been diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Her doctor told her that a lot of people of mistakenly diagnosed as having MS when in reality it is a co-infection that is popping up as a result of Lyme Disease. I thought I would send you a website/article to check out.
It isn’t the same doctor, but it is a good article.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029179_Lyme_disease_remedies.html

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/06/meridees-monday-13/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Comment on Merridee’s Monday by Mike Schaffran http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/uQvZrLBdjis/ Mike Schaffran Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:32:56 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=379#comment-154 Hi Jeromy, I read your morning meditation, and I think of the steps Nancy and I are asked to follow. Then I open my K-Love scripture of the day......Jeremiah 33:3......Now God is talking loud, and very clear. This has been often lately:) It takes the questions I have clearly out of the way! I love my King!! May the answers you cannot yet see around the corner be as sure as the ones already placed in your heart by God! Blessings to you, and the Family. Hi Jeromy,

I read your morning meditation, and I think of the steps Nancy and I are asked to follow. Then I open my K-Love scripture of the day……Jeremiah 33:3……Now God is talking loud, and very clear. This has been often lately:) It takes the questions I have clearly out of the way! I love my King!! May the answers you cannot yet see around the corner be as sure as the ones already placed in your heart by God! Blessings to you, and the Family.

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/12/merridee%e2%80%99s-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by Michele Bartlett http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/pTfYGVrabq0/ Michele Bartlett Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:08:12 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=376#comment-153 I'm so sorry that you all are going through this . . . I pray that the Father will give you wisdom and that all the remediators, contractors, etc. will work as unto the Lord and do a terrific job. People think the laws of the Old Testament are not for us today but look at Lev. 14:33ff. I'm not suggesting the blood and hyssop route, but isn't it gratifying to know that Abba knows about your situation and he's been telling us for thousands of years to watch out for mold. Blessings to all of you. I’m so sorry that you all are going through this . . . I pray that the Father will give you wisdom and that all the remediators, contractors, etc. will work as unto the Lord and do a terrific job.
People think the laws of the Old Testament are not for us today but look at Lev. 14:33ff. I’m not suggesting the blood and hyssop route, but isn’t it gratifying to know that Abba knows about your situation and he’s been telling us for thousands of years to watch out for mold. Blessings to all of you.

]]> http://ffh.net/2010/07/06/meridees-monday-13/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Comment on Meridee’s Monday by Brandon http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForFfh/~3/0lg4cp3lU_U/ Brandon Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:55:02 +0000 http://ffh.net/?p=376#comment-152 Hey, I know very much how you feel. Being deployed with hundreds of people is very much the same. I have room, I know a few of the people, but it is not my home. It is a 1 year deployment, and I thank Jesus daily it is almost over. Yet this whole time, I have felt like an outsider and unwelcomed by many of the guys I work with daily. Most of the time, I only feel comfortable at our weekly services, even if the chaplin is in left field. I still know I am with the body of Christ and with family. Hey,

I know very much how you feel. Being deployed with hundreds of people is very much the same. I have room, I know a few of the people, but it is not my home. It is a 1 year deployment, and I thank Jesus daily it is almost over. Yet this whole time, I have felt like an outsider and unwelcomed by many of the guys I work with daily. Most of the time, I only feel comfortable at our weekly services, even if the chaplin is in left field. I still know I am with the body of Christ and with family.

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