Thanks

 December 23, 2020

Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

    I thank you all for your prayers  and expressions of comfort especially during the past few days.  It's not over yet, but taking a one day breath and then going to Carilion Hospital in Roanoke for a vascular bypass on my right leg from the knee to the ankle to help increase the good blood flow to the foot which still has the hole in it.  I came home yesterday to a large bowl of fruit from Fleming Chapel and I immediately devoured two apples, one yellow and one red.  I thank them so much for the apples, pears, oranges and bananas.  I got discharged quickly and had almost two hours to wait before my daughter could come so I checked Facebook and got a way to call Michael Saunders who dropped what he was doing and came over to get me home.  Michael is also from Fleming Chapel.  Fleming is a small group but every one who goes there is a servant and ready to do what they can to help.  I appreciate them very much.  I had some interesting experiences at the VA hospital and more doctors that were attending to my circumstances.  There were about four or five different teams of 3 to 5 doctors in each team.  I had a lot of procedures while there, more blood drawn than a vampire on a Saturday night and not so tasty food.  I met nurses that cared for what they did and who never seemed to have time to even sit down for a break.  I had a roommate for about 2 hours who was in worse condition than I was and with whom I was able to have prayer before he was taken to another hospital for more care.  This is the longest break in the devotions in the past twenty one years.  We will get back to a regular schedule when things get somewhat back to normal.  However, I believe it was Beth Moore who said that "normal was just a setting on your dryer."  So whatever normal is, we will get there and get back to a regular occurrence as soon as possible.  Thanks again for you prayers.  Let me also say that Facebook has a bad reputation at times, but for my time in the hospital with no phone directories it was a blessing and a way to get my thoughts and prayer requests to you all.  May God richly bless you all during this holiday season as I will spend my second Christmas in a hospital.  God is good.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

Dan, sometimes known as pastor dan.