BITTER-SWEET

THE SWEET...We travel in 10 days. We are packing and very, very excited! "Pancake" (who is 12) is bouncing off the walls. She is ready to go get her sister! We are ready to go! What once was the unsure, and fear to travel has now become an incredible aching of anticipation. God has prepared us well. We want to go now! His timing is perfect! We are especially thrilled that we will be staying at the Bejoe house and are excited to meet all the wonderful people in which we have heard. We are so ready, we think, to have our Mekdes home. What a journey!

THE BITTER...my mother-in-law is dying. She has been given one month. She has decided not to go through radiation. The tumor growing in her brain has almost doubled in size since April. She then had surgery to move the tumor, it is evidently back, and worse. It is difficult to imagine, or let this truth sink in. It was just a year ago she was here in the midwest celebrating "The Boy's" graduation from high school. She was spunky and healthy. I hurt for "Da Man," he is so torn, and yet we again realize that God's timing is perfect, even when it is painful.