Natzar: protector

Yesterday I started college and David surprised me by bringing home our puppy!
We had fallen in love with Natzar (sounds like "nuts are") about a month ago, but it wasn't working out to get him, we were still getting ready to move into the townhouse.
I wasn't sure if things were going to fall into place and was just waiting to hear when David called and asked me to help him get something out of the car. There was Natzar and David with a huge grin on his face. I was ecstatic to say the least. We had really been debating whether or not to get a puppy; the deciding factor was David deploying and I needed company and security.

Also before we even moved or had seen Natzar, we felt like G-d had chosen his name which is Hebrew for protector. Natzar has been great the 36 hours that we have had him so far (I know it's silly) but he really is a good dog, very even tempered and docile.

We adopted Natzar from Underdogs, a program that places 'underdogs' with a good adoptive family. Turns out our friends have known the founder of the program for years! G-d really has worked everything out! They think Natzar is about 8 weeks old, and he is a mix of yellow lab and pug, completely adorable. Right now we are sitting on the patio enjoying the breeze while he takes a morning nap.
He has been following me around the house and sitting at my feet. To say the least he is a lot of comfort seeing that I spend quite a bit of time alone.
David and I are both so excited and so thankful that G-d has provided and worked everything out. It is the best feeling to be IN G-d's will and receiving his blessings.

shalom and ahava,
Lindsey, David and Natzar!

beginning to heal

So, the procedure of burning my nerves began tuesday. all went well and i felt great yesterday. they can only do one side of my neck at a time so the right side (which wasn't done) hurts more than ever now, but it is normal.
as a side effect, i have a numb spot on my shoulder, but i'd rather have that then a burning sensation, G-d heard my prayer!

i am so happy that something has worked! praise Adonai!

thank you for all of your prayers and i'll keep you updated on how this all proceeds.

step one of two

the test on my neck went well today, numbing the pain. this means that we will go ahead with the procedure tomorrow.
please keep me in your prayers.
-lindsey

getting closer

in my last post i shared about the next steps that will be taken regarding my neck and back pain:
since then i have had my MRI, which was fine, and i have also been to the pain management clinic.
talking with the Doctor at pain management i didn't receive a proposition that i expected nor wanted to hear.
He said that since physical therapy and medication have not worked (as well as taking into account various tests that i've had) he believes that the next step and my last option is to burn the nerves around one or two vertebra's in my spine. he says that they are inflamed, and to protect them my muscles are tensing up to protect them. this explains the ever present tightness and pain in my neck and shoulders.
i really did not expect to or want to hear that i would have to kill part of my body in order to have relief from the pain. however, the nerves will also grow back in 6-8 months.

i have prayed for healing, and however G-d desires to bring that about i believe that he will. in the meantime, i pray that i will continue to be a light and a witness to the doctors and other medical staff that i encounter.
Monday i will undergo a test to see if this method of relief will actually work, and if it does the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday.
Please keep David and I in your prayers,
in His shalom, Lindsey

Change: the disrupt of order in your life, adjustment

It has been such a long time since I last wrote and many things have happened.



To start with I no longer work at Shelter House. It was a season the left questions of why, but G-d answered those none to soon.

Since working there I have become good friends with one of my previous co-workers Sandra. At the time that David and I really needed a couple to fellowship with G-d provided Sandra and Joseph. Then a couple weeks later Sandra informed that a townhouse, two doors down from her was for rent. Since then we have moved all of our earthly belongs to our new home. The house we have anointed and dedicated to be used by G-d for his glory.

Things have been very jumbled and out of whack these past few days... finding socks and where did the iron go when we moved? In the very near future we will be having a yard sale.

David has absolutely loved the yard and i don't know if i emphasised that enough. Every morning and every night he is out there, watering, pruning, cutting as he works to restore it's previous beauty.



I however, am starting college in the fall at Northwest Florida State College. I am so excited and ready for it to begin. G-d has also provided a part time job that I am really enjoying!

In the midst of life I am still struggling with pain in my neck and shoulders. Some of it is from the car accident that i was in two years ago and also from a fall that i took this previous November while I was in Israel.
Since then I have been in physical therapy, seen a number of Doctors and have been taking unwanted medications. The medicine doesn't make me feel like myself and the pain alters things that I do or would like to do. The next step that we are taking is to go to a pain management clinic while continuing medication. I ask for your prayers that G-d's plan would be first and come to fruition. Whatever His will is that is what I want and I know that I will be healed someday. In the meantime I will continue to be a witness of His ever continuing love and faith fullness.

I hope you are all doing well. We really miss our friends at Beth Yeshua and our family. Oh, praise report! Olivia- our niece who is two- she is two and just finished her first treatment of chemo, the doctors could not find the tumor!!! PRAISE ADONAI!!!

Many blessings, shalom and ahava,

Lindsey

Completion: The act or state of being or making something complete; accomplishment.

Monday night David came home from his check ride with a goofy grin on his face. I asked him half asleep if he passed his check ride, knowing that before he even answered that he had.

His completion of his training has been something that has been a prayer request for us; it has been hard to complete with the weather and planes not cooperating. i am almost ecstatic to know that he has completed his training.

The next step will be deployments, but as G-d has been showing me through the last year. We live our lives in seasons and through the times that we don't think that we can get through or even if it will ever end, He gives us exactly what we need to get through the season.

Right now i am celebrating exactly where we are in this season right now!
Congratulations David! I'm so proud of you!

in this season

"For everything there is a season, a right time for every intention under heaven-" Ecclesiastes 3:1



I have to really believe that verse right now, all in all it was a really hard weekend. While it may be a time of rest and a break from work, I have to say that David and I defiantly had a lot of stress from our jobs weighing on us.

Saturday afternoon we found out that our niece, Olivia has cancer on her liver. To say the least it was devastating news to hear. She and her twin sister just turned 2 a couple of weeks ago. (in the photo: David is holding Olivia and i am holding Sophia).


While i have known people with cancer, i can't describe what an emotional pain this is to bear knowing that your family is suffering.

but through my life so far, G-d has shown himself to be awesome even in the direst of circumstances, and when our pain is so great i have the think that in someway i am getting just a glimpse of the pain that he feels for us. it has been so comforting to know that the creator of the universe knows my name, cares who i am, what i do and how i feel.

to sum it up, i am on my knees praying for the comfort of John and Elizabeth as they face this trial in their life, praying that G-d would surround them, dance around them and sing his love over them and their little girls.

In this season, in this time I will praise him, praise him through these trials because he is worthy and holds us in the palm of his hand.