May 4 letter from Joanna
Joey Miller
Dear Friends,
Thanks for
your support in prayer and emails of encouragement. This has been
one
of those weeks I would never want to face again. But I know God
has
allowed it for a reason. Mom is home now after spending a couple
days
in the hospital. I honestly am thrilled to be the one to take care
of
my Mother. I feel so blessed that God has allowed her to come to
us.
I could never ask for a better patient. Or a better mother. Except
I
told her she may not say “I am sorry” anymore. And with us facing
our own pain it allows us to sympathize with her. Even the baby is
getting his 8th tooth, the 2nd one since Mom and Jesse have been
here. They don't know how good a baby he can be.
Mom does have a lot of pain. It
seems like she has faced way too much already. Why another
operation?
She has had quite a few already. And she was always well known at
the
hospital while I was growing up. Between all of us we were in and
out
all the time it seemed. Marie was the only one who never had
health
issues. Or accidents. Today we were remembering how Peter
practically
died (His eyes were set) when a cave crashed in on him, and when
Jesse just kept fainting over a period of time… And Stephen was
always in for asthma attacks. It's a blessing to see how God works
during our most frail times. He allows sad things to happen but he
works out the details in our lives in such awesome ways. We
can't do anything but trust Him.
Timo is not in a cast. He
just has a brace, thankfully. With the heat it would have been
pretty
rough. Who knows how bad his foot really is but I believe God is
healing it quite a bit quicker than we expected. It still swells
up a
little but with being on it as much as he is, no wonder. He has
been
driving the vehicle so much lately. I don't know how he can, but
any
way he found a way to drive without using the clutch a whole lot.
Now
that Mom is home he won’t have to go back and forth to the
hospital
so maybe he can get all the better. I know a break takes months to
heal but I also know God is in the process of giving out miracles.
I
trust Him with this one.
I just want to thank each one who
has prayed for us and blessed us with God’s word and sent
encouraging e-mails. It is a blessing when we reach out in our
weakness and God's children respond with love.
May the Lord bless all of you,
Joey, for the re-Millerizing and the re-Cooperating