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July 19, 2005
It almost came as a shock! July 19, 5:30 PM
that heading is probably misleading, but it was all i could think of at the moment. yesterday, after i got to chattanooga, it started to rain really hard and when i went inside our house there was some significant leakage still. oh well. that was the least of my worries i soon found out when i went up on the roof during a break in the rain to clear out the front gutters. i started clearing leaves, dirt and bricks our of the gutter so that the water would go down the downspouts instead of running over into the porch. when i got around to the other side of the porch my heart skipped several beats. the tree had flattened out a section of the gutter so that it was right against the power line that brings service into our house. what was most frightening was that one of the strands had burned all the way through and the exposed wire coming straight from the pole was about an eighth of an inch from touching the gutter. just the shaking of the gutter that i had been doing was more than enough to cause the gutter to touch the exposed wire and fry me. i just shutter every time i think about it. and yes, i am thankful beyond belief.
when i spoke with asher earlier this morning he sounded more rested than he has in several days. i don't know yet how his therapy went. while i am in chattanooga i have limited access to a the internet, so, i can't really give an end of the day update for now. i do know that gloria and hadrienne have had a particularly rough day today. with all the new and re-construction that is now going on at the hospital, i think it has everyone a little on edge, maybe. i don't know. whatever the reasons are, though, it seemed to make for some difficult realities to be made apparent earlier today that has meant a reduction in the amount of time that we can be with asher throughout the day by almost half. this came with no warning and has been quite devastating news for us. just one more thing in the list to increase our dependancy and trust in God for.
Lord bless you all and thank you. i know that each of you have your own needs and concerns that are just in as great a need of prayer as we are. in many ways i feel very selfish for continuing to ask for the kind of continuous prayer that we seem to be continuing to find ourselves in need of. i am sincerely so grateful to God for your persistence with Him on our behalf. especially on my son's behalf.
trying to learn the latest dance steps for the lastest dance i find myself having to try to learn in order for reconstruction to begin on our house. and i am really not a very good dancer to begin with.
andy mendonsa
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