Humble Pie

I am not very good at letting people help me.  


Maybe its the "guy" thing.  You know, the "I am a warrior, built and designed to be strong for my wife, daughters and those who have been put under my care" attitude.  OK, maybe you don't know.


This cancer journey is humbling on a number of levels. How frail we really are as humans.  How dependent we are (or at least should be) on God.  How little control we actually have. How little I know about the human body. The fact that we have no idea which breath will be our last.  How little I really know about women.


Then, there is the emotionally humbling stuff. Stuff that I haven't explored deep enough to even write about. One of those emotionally humbling things is the feedback we have gotten about the blog itself.  People have been effusive about how its impacting them.  That is more than humbling because it started out being a cathartic way to journal what was happening to us, and a way to get information to friends and family.  It appears God has different plans.  Bigger plans. Go God.


I feel compelled to make it clear that it doesn't feel like I am writing this...God is providing the words, the inspiration and the timing.  Its his blog. Soli Deo Gloria! (That, e pluribus unim and ex post facto are the only Latin I know) So please, feel free to share this blog with whomever you feel God will minister to.  He knows. Just ask him.


Back to that "not good at letting people help me" thing. Julie, Sarah, Hannah and I are so extremely grateful for the friends, family and body of Christ who have come around us in so many ways.  We are so encouraged by you, and its awesome to experience true community - community the way God intended. And I am learning, slowly, to let people help more.  


People have asked if they can bring meals, whatever. A dear friend has set up a "Care" calendar.  Its pretty self explanatory - under a specific day, you click on the hyperlink, "dinner" for example, and then put in your name and then you are signed up to bring dinner that night.  If you care to use it, you can find it here:


To access Julie Maegdlin's personal CareCalendar site,
visit http://www.carecalendar.org/logon/80614 and enter
the following information in the appropriate spaces:

    Calendar ID      :   80614 (pre-loaded if you click the link above)
    Security Code  :   8146


The last two days have been extremely busy.  Julie has spent hours on the phone with doctors and insurance, visited our main doctor for a "release for surgery", taken blood tests, pre-registered with the hospital and even been to the dentist. I have had a two full days at work, which felt good.


Please pray for us this weekend.  We are going to go into a time of prayer in preparation for the surgery next week.  It kind of feels like the last "normal" weekend we will have for a while. There is a realization that there is a new normal on the horizon.  Good thing God's in charge.


Blessings to all