This day has been really different for me. We are back in Kansas and I was looking forward to teaching Sunday School this morning. Instead I ended up in pain, on my couch, watching the September 11 memorial services. Just before we went to Iowa I was in the same kind of pain and my doctor changed my medication. I thought it was working well but the last few days have been pretty rough. I did feel good enough tonight to go to church but guess I'd better give the doctor a call tomorrow.
While watching the memorials this morning I was reminded of several Bible verses that talk of God's faithfulness. Lamentations 22:23-24 about how His compassions fail not, II Corintians 4:8-9 about being persecuted but not abandoned, cast down but not destroyed. Isn't God amazing? I love that He is my strength in my weakest times. Today I was also burdened to pray more for our country. God's word says that a nation is blessed when God is their Lord. I pray that our country will truly turn to Him and make him our LORD.
OK, so I talked about September 11, so you might be wondering what about Texans? Well, you'ld probably never guess it but I love watching NFL football and my favorite team of ALL is the HOUSTON TEXANS!! When I was in 5th grade I had open heart surgery at Texas Children's Hospital. Our family stayed in the Ronald McDonald House in Houston and at the time the Houston Oilers had donated a lot of money to make the Ronald McDonald House super nice. They had Houston Oilers jerseys on the walls of the house and pictures of the players! I pretty much decided that they were great. Well years later they became the Tennessee Oilers, I believe, kinda lost track of them but then when I heard about the Houston Texans they became my team. I was disappointed today to see that they had a game but it wasn't on our TV, but TOTALLY excited to find out THEY WON! Of course, being a Kansas girl who likes football I did watch the KC Chiefs, not good. Then tonight after church I yelled for Dallas and it was a super good game but they still lost to the New York Jets. I also picked my favorite college basketball team based on where I had my 1st and 3rd heart surgeries.... University of Kansas... Jayhawks!! But we'll stick with football for now. Jonathan can only handle my enthusiasm about 1 sport at a time :) He told me tonight that "Mom's aren't supposed to get so excited about football."
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