Wheelchairs

The highlight of this week was to finalize the purchase of Lynn's chairs.  Insurance is buying him a motorized one because he has had surgery on both shoulders and his left wrist is fused. They believed this was his best option. At first we wanted to reject the offer out of pride but we were convinced by people who cared that we should accept.  Lynn can use this chair in the house and take some strain off his shoulders during the day. (They are already beginning to ache quite a bit from the constant use wheeling the manual.) Privately, we will purchase a light weight manual that he can use to be able to drive again and to use when he wants to go "walking" for his heart health.  Tomorrow they will deliver a demo model so he can see how the motorized chair works in our house.

We so wish that we could be reporting the return of some movement to his legs but we cannot tell you that.  He faithfully does the exercises they have given him and we hope through prayer maybe something will happen before the two year window.

I close with a little story, however, of God's grace.  This weekend had been a hard one for Lynn.  He had eaten something that had not agreed with him and the rain dampened his spirits too.  We were on our way to church with the rain pouring down and I silently asked God if he would give Lynn a little sign of His presence.  Would He stop the rain so Lynn could get into church dry?  Even as we came up Fifth Street the rain was falling but as we pulled into the parking lot and began the process of setting up the wheel chair, I noticed the rain had stopped!  Quickly he transferred and he got into church dry as a bone!  Just minutes later other parishioners walked up to greet him and their jackets were soaked as a downpour had caught them.  Thank you, God for letting our family know in big ways and small that You are taking care of us! (PS - we also left church without getting wet.)