Pray! Please!

I did my usual routine this morning with rising around 5am and loaded the dogs in the car to do our usual ride to Starbucks before Anne goes to work. I typically get her decaffeinated coffee. As I’m listening to the radio I hear about some guy shooting a lot of people at a showing of the new Batman movie. I’m taken back by another e-mail from a college ministry asking prayer for one of the gals that was shot and is now in surgery.

As I share this following that I ask you to pray about seems like very little in comparison to what happened last night. This Saturday we are doing an Urban Plunge Project. We have 40 Young Life Students from New Jersey who will help paint 2 houses and a church tomorrow. Please pray that God will use this opportunity to touch the lives of those involved. I am excited to have many key leaders who are actually here in the summer time. YES!

My personal prayer request is for my Anne. This last week Anne went to a specialist to get advice or help with some issues she was having. Now she is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday morning to find out whether she might have either cervical or ovarian cancer. I’ve tried to have a ‘happy face’ while have I finished out the last week of our summer program. My brother and his wife are in Brazil and we are watching their kids and our or their Mango dog.

We will enjoy and be expectant for tomorrow’s project but my heart is all about my Anne and what will happen on Tuesday. We are going to get away after Saturday’s project to be together and spend some time praying together. My dad’s situation has taught me to live one day at a time and appreciate and cherish the time we have together, knowing that the next time I see him he might not recognize me.

I so much appreciate your prayers for the families that have been devastated last night, for our Urban Plunge Project tomorrow and then for my Anne who has surgery on Tuesday and as we await for results in a week.