Pastor Comes Home!!

Janet Sack writes Saturday, November 1, 2014:

Here we are nearing the end of another Saturday afternoon and I am reflecting on the weekly posts I have made over the past several weeks. It’s amazing to reflect upon the previous posts and how we held to the hope that God was doing amazing work in our lives and yet we were clinging to the understanding that all of it was in God’s timing and not ours.

So on this Saturday afternoon Bruce and I are both reflecting on the work God has done in each of our lives in this recent hospital journey, but we are excited to share our praise report that after 36 days, we are HOME!

Again, this week has been a week of ups and downs not really knowing for sure where we would be today, some said in the hospital waiting for another procedure, some said in inpatient rehab, some said he could never really go home anytime soon. As we faced those sayings this week, and our mighty prayer warriors prayed us through the storms and blustery winds, it was Jesus’ plan that we believed in and accepted! We are home, without the need for inpatient rehab, we are home without the need for home healthcare, we are home free from plugs, tubes and whatever else the hospital occasionally thought would need to be used and we are home enjoying the quiet rest in our own surroundings! I don’t think either of us realized how exhausted we would be today, both physically and spiritually, but we are rejoicing and praising God that we are at this point in our rest and recovery.

It seems that on this Saturday, we are closing this chapter in our journey, and as we enter a new chapter, we are just as excited to claim that it is all going to be good because it will be in God’s plan and timing. So what does our next chapter or tomorrow hold?

For the Sack’s, tomorrow holds the continuation of our praise, joy and thanksgiving that our God has protected us and guided us in the past, and that He will lead us and guide us in our tomorrows as we simply live for Him in our today.
In our understanding, it means, we rest at home, allowing Bruce to rest and regain his strength from this crazy hospital stay for however long his body needs. It means starting outpatient therapy, something that should have occurred immediately after the 3rd surgery. It means protecting him from germs with his open wound and hole left by the unnecessary peg tube surgery and subsequent infections. It means waiting in due time for the blood thinners to do their work on the blood clot. It means remaining in hope that as our journey continues we know that God will use us and this story for His glory, in ways we can’t even imagine now. And that’s not a bad thing, that we can’t imagine it yet, because we know we are in a season of rest and when God is ready to reveal His work for us, He will hear us singing “Yes Lord, Yes, Lord…Yes, Yes, Lord, Amen”

Im trading my sorrows
Im trading my shame
Im laying them down, for the joy of the lord

Im trading my sickness
Im trading my pain
Im laying them down, for the joy of the lord

Chorus

We say, yes lord yes lord
Yes yes lord
Yes lord,yes lord
Yes yes lord
Yes lord, yes lord
Yes yes lord, AMEN.

Im pressed but not crushed
Persecuted not abandoned
Struck down, but not destroyed
I’m blessed beyond the curse
For his promise will endure
And his joy’s gonna be my strength

Though the sorrow may last for the night
His joy comes with the morning!!!