Update overdue

Bowing to pressure and the fact that I have not kept the blog updated and feeling bad about it, I think it is time to start keeping it up.

A lot has happened in the past 6 months. Three trips to Canada,a couple of trips out onto the lake and a whole lot of work.

One of the reasons I stopped on this blog was Pastor Quick's recurrence of his melanoma. Seeing him go thru what he did until his passing in August was hard on me. I still look in the mirror and ask God why him and not me. I also wonder what more I could have done to help him. I feel I let him down every time I get a good report from my doctors. Someone told me that maybe God isn't done with me yet and that he has something more for me to accomplish. I hope so.

All three of my doctors are amazed and they call me an anomaly. My regular doctor and the oncologist and dermatologist ask me questions on what I am doing and why I think I am still around. The three of them have told me this summer that I shouldn't have made it this long. Even better, they tell me I should not be this healthy for a 58 year old. I feel great except for the aches and pains from overdoing it. Like tonight in AWANA with the kids. It's hard running around the circle with the kids.

Also, Caleb turned 9 and Arrie turned 1. Had the doctors been right, I would have never seen Arrie, let alone his first birthday. Now I am holding on to see him graduate college and make me a great-grandfather.

Continue to pray for me and my health. I will update on our recent Canada trip that turned out to be quite the adventure. I promise it will be in a few days and not a few weeks.