Another Week...

...Another surgery.

Fasting has been a bit more difficult for me the past month. I have increased the number of miles covered on my bicycle, which has greatly increased my appetite. The result is a greater hunger on Wednesdays. More discomfort. More desire for food. Yikes, I can be self centered. So I was in a bit of discomfort, yesterday. It was nothing compared to what Adam had to endure, this week.

Adam underwent another surgery on Tuesday. It lasted nearly five hours. It was the 12th surgery that he has had to suffer through. (Let's pray for a quick recovery, and that he can avoid another surgery — at least anytime soon). I am not keeping track, but Adam has had almost as many surgeries as we have had days of fasting. I do pray that we can pull well ahead and leave him in the dust!

Next Week

At Hillary's suggestion, we will try something a bit different as we transition into autumn. Beginning on next week's united day of prayer and fasting, we will post devotionals based on a study of the book of Philippians.

We will still be fasting, we'll still be praying, and we'll still be posting to this blog throughout the day as we always have. We'll just be basing them on a sequential journey through Paul's letter of encouragement.

I look forward to joining you, next week. Until then, let's keep reading the Bible, and devote time each day to prayer (Amy's prayer requests). With that in mind, here is a sample of what Paul wrote to the church at Philippi:

Philippians 1:9-11

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.