FOCUSED

To the casual observer, I might appear a little distracted today, but I don't think so.

Sure, my mind is all over the place, with phone calls from Texas updating me on the developments in Jonathan's pursuit of a firm diagnosis of his health problems and calls from/visits to Gill in the hospital on her first full post-op day.

The news from St.Charles is that the physical therapist has had Gill up and walking several times today already. She's experiencing quite a bit of pain, but hopefully they will get her pain medications stabilized soon to deal with that. When I was there earlier it looked like they had given her too much of some happy drug or other as she could hardly keep her eyes open. So I left her to sleep and will go back later.

Jonathan got a call from his thorasic surgeon at home last night (I guess they do things differently in Texas) and they arranged for him to have the surgery to remove and test some lymph nodes on Friday. Today he is doing tests the pulmanory doctor wants and then rushing over for pre-op stuff at another hospital.

So, am I distracted? Not at all - I'm focused. Focused on where my mind needs to be right now. Focused on the people and the issues that most need my attention. Whatever our ministry might be, it is always secondary to ministering to our families.

A lot of preachers won't tell you that. But then, I'm not a lot of preachers.