Mom is back in the ICU.

Mom was moved back to ICU on Sunday due to dangerously low blood pressure. She was able to recover fairly quickly. Her spirit and countenance is very encouraging. Her care here at Goshen continues to be outstanding. As she continues to fight through these many set backs, we continue to be very hopeful for these precious remaining days. As of today, she has been here over a month. Sometimes I learned more about who she fully is by observing her interactions with her friends and grandchildren. She knows how to love very well. Her posture and eye contacts just communicate so much life, love and compassion. There are questions which I don't have courage to ask her yet but I look forward with anticipation to have a glimpse of her graciousness and joy being with others.

II Corinthians 4:16 "16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

"Your are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read".

Chritmast 2008, my sibling and I had a wager on how many books we can read by the following Christmast as a mean to a healthy distraction from watching TV and such. While the wager has ended I continue to venture on since. I finished my of 13th book for the 2012 year with "Weird" by Craig Groeschel as recommended by Pastor Jay Shetler.  As  Charles E. Cowman succinctly says "The more we read the more we believe, the more we believe the more we hope, the more we hope, the more we pray, the more we pray, the more we love, the more we love, the more we labor." Below is the list of completed reading for the 2012. Thank you to all you wise men and women for the recommended reading.

1.  The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias .
2.   The Papa Prayer by Larry Crabb .
3.  Church in translation by Dan Collison .
4.  The Sacred Acre by Mark Tabb

5.  Living the Sabath by Norman Wirzba

6. The Tozer Pulpit by Gerald Smith

7. The Tangible Kingdom by Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

8. Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

9. Sacrilege by Hugh Halter .
10. Season of Life by jeffrey mark

11. Meat for Men by Leonard Ravenhill

12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini .

13. Weird by Craig Groeschel