Saturday, February 19, 2011

A month of challenges

Dear Friends,

February has been a month of challenges for us.  We are grateful to our heavenly Father who has helped us through these trials.

We have had a bad round of the flue and are thankful that everyone seems to be over it, with only a few lingering coughs.  Leah seems to have managed to dodge getting it, please pray that she continues to avoid it.

We have had several challenges with our transportation.  Alan has been using an older model truck that belongs to his brother. He has been using it to travel back and forth to work.  The truck broke down earlier in the month.  Once it was finally repaired, then the battery began to give us trouble and we had to replace it today.

We are thankful that in the midst of all these challenges we had the please of celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary.  Alan was still down with the flu, but our children and our sister-in-law prepared a lovely meal for us and we had a beautiful quiet dinner at home.

We continue to struggle financially and ask for your prayers for God's provision for our daily needs. We are planning on traveling to Texas in the middle of April and we need to have money to make that trip as well as maintain our house here in North Carolina.

Thank you for all your prayers, they keep us going every day.