On 11/11/08 I sat next to my wife while in a hospital bed at Moses Taylor hospital and I thanked the Lord for the great years we had together. We are a normal couple. We were born into a world of sin and sickness learned life's lessons and felt the sting of living in a fallen world enough to drive us to our Lord. He then directed our lives to meet and we grew together in the Lord and raised a family, worked, vacationed, had birthday parties, Christmas parties, broken lawnmowers, friends that brought the best out of us and helped us to stay strong when we wanted to give up, struggled through many things we thought were hard, but always managed to keep the joy of the Lord. Laughter with each other and our kids , our dog, Cheryl's dad and his stories her mom and her cooking and caring, my crazy brothers and stepfather. The Lord, His church, family, and friends have been our priorities. We enjoyed them together. Tonight is different. I know that soon she will go meet the greatest joy she's ever known. The One who made all the joys we experience in this life possible and gave us victory over every battle we ever faced together. This is one experience I can't have with her yet. I pray that if I draw close enough to Jesus and to her I will know a little bit of what she will experience when she draws her final breath in this world and meets the Lord Jesus Christ in her next. Oh Lord Jesus may I? we've experienced so much together. I thought we'd have more to share but it's ok. I have peace. I know that for however many years I remain without her there will be an emptiness that I will trust to you. I am your beloved. I know you will supply all my needs according to your riches and glory. But Lord this is one thing I ask just a taste of your glory. And still as critical as her health is right now, I stand believing that you can deliver her out of this sickbed and she will live and testify with me of this wonderful work. How great it would be for people to see that yes you do have the power to forgive the unseen sickness within every man because you would deliver corruptible bodies from sickness when doctors with great wisdom ran out of answers. You can profound the wise by proving to all who see such a great miracle that a simple gospel message like God so loved the world he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe on Him would not perish but have everlasting life. Oh how many would believe your message and would not be able resist coming to know you in their very personal struggles. But even if you didn't perform such a miracle, Cheryl's life tells that story. In so many ways she was innocent to the ways of this world and how much damage its evils could do. That is because of growing up so close to the truth and choosing to stay in the truth. Yes she came to a repentance herself and committed her life to Christ, but she didn't stray too far in to the world's evils and did have to mature in her walk with you as we all do when we come to you humbly like a child. But the strength she showed as a daughter of yours as she always stayed faithful to me as a lover, friend, and mother. She always honored her parents, she was a faithful servant of yours when it came to ministries in the church no matter what the task was she gave her very best in everything. She did it because she believed in your cause too get the gospel out even if it meant to live it for others to see. Jesus you were her greatest priority. It's because she believed you are Lord that she thought it was worthy enough of a cause to give that which ever you gave her to do to do it well.