Gifts of Faithfulness

Unmerited favor...we are shown unmerited favor on a daily basis but sometimes it shows up in a more visible manner to our blind hearts.  Lately we've experienced this in several ways.  God chooses to bless at the most unexpected times.  We have a caregiver that we've had for several months and we really appreciate her caring, dedicated service to us in her care of David.  We wanted to show our appreciation by taking her to a good burger restaurant here in town.  We enjoyed our sumptuous WI fried cheese curds and burgers.  I asked the waiter for the bill.  He informed me that someone at another table, unbeknownst to us, had paid our tab! I don't know who it was but God used a stranger to bless us.

The last few days, David has shown incredible gains in his left leg.  He has suddenly gone from a 1/5 muscle grade to a 2/5 muscle grade.  He is able to march with it and straighten his knee in sitting!  It's amazing!  We never thought this left leg would do anything.  It didn't even have any trace muscle activity for 2 years and now he's standing on it, stepping with it, marching with it and straightening it!! 

I have started a treatment using essential oils the last two nights.  I'm not sure if this is what is aiding in David's gains, but we'll accept this added measure of healing from the hand of our Father!

We have made a purchase lately that we are pretty excited about: a tandem recumbent bike.  We will post a picture of us on it when we get it.  Although we may not be able to ride it outside much before the snow and ice envelops us, we will take advantage of better weather until that time! :)  David is excited to be able to get some aerobic exercise (which is very difficult for him to get).  I'm excited to be able to do something active with my husband.  Before the accident we enjoyed about every kind of active thing you could imagine, so to be limited in this way for the first 2 years of our marriage has been tough.

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17