Still here

Thought it might help those dear friends in so many places who have being praying for us to know that Sue is still here - but asleep/unconscious all the time now. We are however conscious of a God-given peace prevailing in the household - a very great blessing from the hands of our gracious loving heavenly Father.

The nurses have been coming all this week to wash Sue, and top-up the medication, and they always leave her looking clean and comfortable. But one of the family visitors today (and we have been limiting it to "family only" since Monday) said that she thought Sue's breathing was a little more laboured. We also need to bear in mind that it is now a week since she has eaten; and several days since she has been awake sufficiently to be able to swallow. So we await a home-call - thankful for shared faith in a Saviour who said

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also". (John 14:1-3)

Do you ever think of Heaven?
Do you long to enter in
To the Father's presence glorious ,
To the place where there's no sin ?
Glorious courts where Jesus reigns now,
Seated at His Father's side;
Wondrous mansions where His people
Shall for evermore abide .

Do you ever think of Heaven?
Place of beauty, place of peace,
Where the praises of the Saviour
Shall for evermore increase.
For the Lamb is all the glory
Of those courts of Heaven above;
Jesus, Saviour and Redeemer -
Jesus, precious King of Love .

For the glory of that Heaven
Is that we shall see His Face -
Without shadow, without sorrow,
We shall know His close embrace.
Undeserving guilty sinners,
Saved by grace and sovereign might -
O we long for that great day when
Feeble faith gives way to sight!