Looking up (Weekend Street/Reflections # 294)

 New York City

Last week my wife’s 90-something-year-old father fell and broke his neck. He was mentally sharp before the fall, but now he’s bedridden and slips into confusion and delusional thoughts. My wife is having half of her lung removed on Monday, so she won’t be able to visit her father for quite a while. It's a very difficult time for her, but through it all, her faith in God is evident.

Psalm 121:1-2 

1) I look up to the mountains— does my help come from there? 

2) My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth!

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Un bouledogue mignon (Weekend Street/Reflections # 293)

 Paris, France

I can't believe it's already September. Our summer was relatively mild, but I’m still counting down the days to long-sleeve weather. If I'm this ready for autumn, I can only imagine how deeply a cool breeze will be celebrated in Paris.

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Exhausted (Weekend Street/Reflections # 292)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I took this photo several years ago because the person and the ruined bike made such a striking visual of destruction and exhaustion. It captures how we've felt at times. 

This has been a mentally exhausting summer of tests, scans, and the constant question of chemo or radiation and/or surgery. Two months ago, doctors found a rare cancer in my wife’s spine that required emergency surgery. Thank God, that surgery was successful. 

Shortly afterward, they discovered a completely different rare cancer in her left lung and a lymph node. Yesterday we learned they need to remove half of her lung on September 14. That’s two rare cancers discovered and two major surgeries in three months. 

This is actually her third bout. She had another rare cancer removed from her jaw in the late 1980s. A couple of AIs said the odds of this happening are like being hit by a meteor or winning the lottery several times over. Maybe there's an underlying genetic link, even though she has no family history of cancer? We are praying and hopeful everything goes well on the 14th and that she recovers quickly.

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