Why Do You Intentionally LIE on This Point?

I’m gonna say this nicely ONCE.  Then I am going to lose my mind and further engagement on this topic will be dealt with most severely.

Do not listen to Pat Robertson.  The man’s cheese has slipped off his cracker a long time ago.  This week on the 700 Club:

Robertson: You know, there’s a law – what about a law that says it’s a federal crime to attack somebody because of his religious beliefs? Not a chance!

Actually, religious bias has been part of hate crime legislation since it started to be enacted by the states in 1980.

1980, Pat.  Look, I hate this crap because Christians who never read a book or a newspaper hear you bleat and take it as the gospel.  Let us open our recent copy of the Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act and turn to page:

“(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.—Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person—

“(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY.—

“(A) IN GENERAL.—Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B) or paragraph (3), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability of any person—

I’d be celebrating the passage of this long, long overdue legislation, but I read this morning that Obama’s program to assist gay senior communities is being denounced because “gay men die earlier, anyway.”  I’ll have a sip of champagne, but we still have work to do.

Prayer Request for Pastor Ken Hutcherson

I’ve been working on some material about Pastor Ken.  Thoughts.  How it’s often the people inside a cause that make the struggle harder than it needs to be.  And also thoughts on self-righteousness, gracelessness, and the standard of judgment we use on others coming back to us.

That is then, this is now.

Word comes through a friend who would know that Pastor Ken is not doing well in his battle against prostate cancer.  Let this serve as a request for prayer for Pastor Ken and this physical battle.

Because next week we’re gonna pick up the spiritual battle.

No, No, I’m Here…

…just….recovering, I guess.

I don’t know the full story yet, but it’s not looking good.  The pain is ripe and sharp.

Your prayers are coveted.  Right now, lots of tears and whys.

Transgender Issues

I’ve got a friend who’s requesting information for a family they know who are undergoing tremendous stress through transgender issues which have arisen.  Does anyone know of any additional programs, websites, reading material, etc.?  If it deals with the issue in a healthy manner, I’d love to pass it onto this family.  Strong emotions and the husband is dealing with some severe depression, so time is an issue.

Thanks, guys.  It’s frustrating in that this underlines my need to do more reading, praying, meditating on transgender issues.  My reference drawer feels fairly shallow at this point.

Prayer Requests from Ryan’s Family

I got a note with this saying that requests 1 and 2 have already been answered.  But these prayer requests for the Robertson family are the aftermath of Ryan’s passing and where the family stands now with so much going on.  I know there’s a bunch of you that have been praying for Ryan and his family and I forward these prayer requests on.

Ryan is finally out of pain and his faith has been made sight.  There are days I truly envy that kid.

I am going to try to make this short, because my “To Do” list today is way longer than I can handle. But Rob and I have some prayer requests that we’d like to ask you to lift up before our God on our behalf, if you think of us. They are NOT in any order of importance…I am just going to bang them out as they come to mind.

1. Somehow, the things that were in Ryan’s bedside table did not make it home to our house…or at least, we cannot find them. There were a lot of family and dear friends helping us load up his room after he died, and in his bedside table were his hearing aids, and a soft CD case full of CD’s that were Ryan and my favorite CD’s…all the music we both loved together…about 15 CD’s…and we’re not sure what else is missing. We are both feeling stressed about this, because both of these items hold a great deal of sentimental value to us…and we’d really like to find them.

2. Lindsey lost her Bible…her best Bible…the black leather one that she used all through Torrey Honors Institute, on the night of Ryan’s memorial service, and though we’ve checked the church many times since, we haven’t found it. It has ALL her notes from 4 years of college in it…again, this is something that we’d really, really like to find.

3. Please pray for wisdom for me…Rob and I are truly both feeling like the shock of Ryan’s death is just now wearing off, and the grief is only starting to set in. I am supposed to start back to work on September 1, but I cannot begin to imagine that. We will have only been home a week since returning from Biola. But we don’t know how Lake Washington School District would view another delay, and we have no idea how we are going to pay August’s bills, much less September’s, without my income. Please pray that God will make me ready to go back to work, if that is what I need to do, or that He will provide another way.

4. Please pray for Riley…he is excited about Biola, but is NOT excited about leaving our family right now, while he is grieving so much. The timing is very, very hard. Please pray that God will provide the right mentors, and some deep, Christ-centered friendships with guys who can meet him where he is at…and, most of all, that he will continue to be drawn near to Christ as he transitions to life at Biola.

5. The girls are also really grieving. Please pray for both Lindsey and Larissa…they are both deeply hurting, but like Riley, are turning to God in their pain. Larissa has a counselor here, but we need to find grief counselors for both Lindsey and Riley in California…so that is a need, as well.

6. Please pray for Ryan’s friends who have no hope in God, and who are grieving without ANY peace that they will see Ryan again. Pray especially for his roommate Ron, his ex-boyfriend Devin, and all his friends from his “using” years who are really struggling with Ryan’s death.

7. Rob and I are going to try to be very intentional about taking a walk, or going for a bike ride together every day, to make sure that we have time to talk during this intense time. Please pray that we will make this a priority…and that God will bless our time.

8. We have so many decisions left to make and things to do in regard to Ryan…and they weigh heavily on me, in particular. We haven’t selected his plot, thought about the headstone, looked at the guestbook, gone through his things, received the death certificate, written letters to the doctors and nurses who meant so much to us, etc, etc, etc. There are so many things that are emotional and will take God’s grace to get through. We also have a lot of journaling we want to do. And I am trying to let go and not stress about the hundreds of unanswered e-mails and FaceBook messages sitting on my laptop.

9. Please pray that God will strengthen and comfort us as we go to Biola as a family of five, instead of as a family of six. This is going to be painful…especially since the last two times we were there, Ryan was with us. We will miss him so very, very much. But we know Jesus will be with us in the middle of the missing.

10. Please pray that we will continue to put Christ first, above all else, no matter what comes. And that we will stay unified as a family…and that our first priority will be to remember that this is GOD’S STORY…and He has a plan to glorify Himself…and to make us more like Him…and we have to just trust and obey, one day at a time, like we have been doing for years.

Focus on the Family Giving Up It’s Ex-Gay Workshops

Yup, “Love Won Out” is no more, to be given over to Exodus International.

Apparently all that money aimed at getting McCain elected over Obama cost them dearly and with diminishing contributions, something had to give.

Here’s the article:  http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13049629.  Thoughts?  Feelings?

Dr. Throckmoron Analyzes the APA Sexual Orientation Task Force Report

Instead of thrashing everything over again — especially since I agree with Dr. T’s conclusions — I forward you to Dr. Throckmorton’s website for the long-awaited report from the APA Sexual Orientation Task Force.  His comments will bring some light and truth to the situation.

Ryan: The Final Chapter

Ryan David Robertson entered the Kingdom of Heaven at 4:55 p.m. today, July 16, with his family by his side, and is now knowing the complete joy and love of our Lord. We already miss him desperately, but we rejoice for him at the same time. “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55…more info when we know it…it is time to grieve.

The struggle is, at last, over.  Mailing information or other contact information to send your condolences is forthcoming.  Thank you for your prayers for Ryan and his family.

Derek Webb: What Matters Most

Listen to it several times.  Whew.

Urgent Ryan Update: The Most Amazing Email I’ve Ever Received

Words fail me, other than GOD IS GOOD.  Last mini-update a few days ago did not look good.  I thought we might be reaching the end of Ryan’s story very very soon.

What do I know?

Be amazed, and please continue to be diligent in prayer.  I hope this knocks you on your butt like it did me:

As I have shared with you our friends are going through a tough trial. It has been ongoing for about 8 or 9 years since Ryan and Kristin were about 11 or 12. Twelve days ago Ryan was found unconscious from a heroine overdose and has been in a coma every since. His wish was to not be kept alive on life support and Thursday he was taken off of them. MRI’s showed the terrible brain damage from the overdoses he has had.

Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Here is an update that Ryan’s mom, Linda, posted on Facebook yesterday at 11:05pm:

We apologize for not posting updates for a while; we realize that so many of you have been faithfully praying and waiting to hear about the change in Ryan’s condition. Thank you for your grace & patience. Since the afternoon when we were supposed to move Ryan to the hospice we have been in an absolute whirlwind of emotions, extremely busy with Ryan and in seemingly continual meetings with our fantastic medical team who are making decisions about Ryan’s care.

Basically, Ryan’s prognosis has not changed. We are still at Harborview, though we’ve been moved to a large private room on an upper floor where Ryan’s doctors felt it would be more quiet for Ryan and for our family (we are still in no visitor and isolation mode, because he has c. diff, which is actually a very nasty contagious diarrhea). A group of nine doctors met with us today for over an hour and a half, and their medical consensus is that Ryan will most likely die from the damage to his body caused by the drug overdose and the subsequent oxygen deprivation.

However, we were given an ENORMOUS, miraculous gift on Thursday…something NONE of the doctors at Harborview Medical Center have ever seen, heard of, or found documentation of happening before. After being completely unresponsive for 10 days, with no body movement or improvement neurologically, we experienced something absolutely incredible. As Ryan was being moved from his bed to the gurney for transport to the hospice, the EMT moving him asked him if he was doing okay. He answered, “Yup. 100 percent.” Everyone in the room audibly gasped. He went on to answer when asked his name, and to tell us that he was not feeling pain. He was still not moving, his eyes were roving (didn’t seem to be seeing us at all) and he was speaking in a somewhat robotic sounding voice. But for the next several hours, Ryan interacted with us!! He continued to answer questions in an intelligent, cogent manner…astounding the doctors who have an MRI that shows that his brain should not be capable of any speech whatsoever.

When Rob asked him what he wanted, he said, “That is a complicated question.” After Rob had given him a drink of water, and he was able to swallow well, Larissa told him that he had done a good job, and he asked, “Are you being sarcastic?” When the neurologist came in and introduced himself to Ryan, Ryan said, “Whassup?”

It gets even better…God is SO good….when Rob asked Ryan if he knew how proud Rob was of him, he said, “Yes, I know.” And when I told him I loved him, he replied, “I love you, too.” When Larissa expressed her love (Lindsey and Riley were not there at the time), he told her he loved her, then said, “…and Riley, too.” I wish you could see me smiling as I am writing this…how could God have given us a more precious gift? At one point, Rob asked him a question that he used to ask the kids every night before bedtime when they were little..”Who loves you the most?” Ryan answered, “God.”

We were given a gift on Thursday that we will never forget, and will never stop thanking God for, no matter what tomorrow holds. Today Ryan has been only spoken a little bit, and has not made any other neurological improvements. He has been unconscious most of the day. So we are choosing to praise our awesome God for this gift that none of the doctors here can understand or explain, and we are going to take one day at a time, trusting Him to continue to carry us through this. And…God has given us a great deal of peace about trusting our highly skilled team of doctors, who are making the decisions about Ryan’s continuing care.

The best way you can support us is to join us in taking one day at a time…not jumping ahead to predict what God is going to do or not do, but simply being with us in the moment, rejoicing with us that we got to talk with our son, but also knowing that we do not know what tomorrow will hold, so our entire family is feeling very fragile right now. The five of us, thanks to your prayers, are so blessed to be so close to one another, and to be together as we come around Ryan in love…and in grief that he is going through such a traumatic thing. It is hard for all of us to see him unconscious and unable to move his body or to see us…but we are all remembering (thank you, Pastor Steve) that this is God’s story, and, again, He loves Ryan far more than all five of us put together. And if you could feel the love in this room right now, that is an ENORMOUS amount of love, let me tell you.

We are feeling OVERWHELMED by gratitude…our list is so long that I would be up all night writing if I listed everything, but I am going to just tell you the few things that have reminded us of how faithful our God is to us during this extremely difficult time of our lives. And He is using many of you to bless and encourage us…we have been so moved.

* Our head nephrologist (kidney doctor) actually offered to let us come to her home to shower, sleep and do laundry!!

* Our head ICU doctor just came upstairs tonight and gave us his personal cell phone number, so that if we have ANY problems on the new floor we are on, we can call him to come and help us even though he is technically not our attending doctor anymore…we are AMAZED at the care we are getting here!).

* Two of my dear friends, Tracy & Mary, from the place I worked in the late 90’s went to our house and thoroughly cleaned it from top to bottom…which hasn’t been done in…never mind.

* Five of Rob’s dearest firefighter friends, Paul, Dustin, Doug, Andrew, and Jesse came and did work in our huge forested yard, pressured washed everything, and basically did all the jobs that have been making Rob feel terrible that he was not doing (while he has been making our family healing and reconciliation with Ryan a priority).

* Someone anonymously dropped off a VERY generous sum of money on two QFC gift cards, which took off a great deal of stress and worry about the money we’ve been having to spend on eating out this week while I am not earning any income.

* My brother, with whom Ryan is very close, arrived today from California, and has been an incredible help in caring for Ryan, allowing Rob and I to take breaks to talk with doctors or Lindsey, Riley and Larissa. Because he was by the side of two loved ones while they were dying from AIDS, he is, sadly, very comfortable in a hospital setting, and not only extremely loving to Ryan, but very gracious to his nurses, as well. His timing in coming could not have been more perfect. Tomorrow night Rob and I are going to take our first night off and go home together for the evening, and leave Ryan with his Uncle Don, because we know that if Ryan were to wake up with Don here, he would feel completely surrounded by unconditional love (and Don would call us immediately so we could break all speed limits coming back.

* Thank you, so much, Don and Leanne H., for coming to sit with Ryan so lovingly so that my Don could go into the family meeting with us…and then staying not only to support us, but to be a huge support to Lindsey, Riley and Larissa…they appreciated it so very much…you have loved them like your own children.

* Two of our pastors, Chuck and Steve, as well as our dear friend and physician Scott, all came last night to pray with us over Ryan and to help us make sense of what the doctors were saying was a very confusing, upsetting and rather grim day. They were the ones who helped us to “reframe” the day…to realize that even though we had been on a kind of emotional rollercoaster, that we could only choose to view the day as a precious, priceless gift from God…and to treasure it, no matter what the future holds. We do not know, but our faithful God does, and He has ALWAYS carried us through every storm that has come our way, so we KNOW that we can trust Him.

* Our cherished friends Dave and Sue, who have walked the dark valley of losing a child themselves, have really come alongside us to grieve with us and help bear our burden…as well as bringing us teriyaki chicken for dinner (which made Larissa decide that the Martins were definitely her BEST friends ever).

Thank you for taking the time, if you have read this far…to actually sit through this lengthy, and probably inarticulate retelling of the last 40 or so hours. It helps me to process it all…and I don’t ever want to forget all that God has done to prove His great love for our family…and to show us that He really does walk with us through the valley of the shadow of death.

And thank you SO much to those who have, through Emily, provided us with meals, loaded gift cards, and donated to the benevolent fund that June Blender so kindly set up…well, we cannot begin to thank you. Words will never ever express our appreciation. We are so very aware that we in no way deserve all the love that you are showing us, and will never be able to repay it…and we are overwhelmed by how loving, unselfish and generous our friends are. We are the most blessed, and rich of all families to have friends like you.

I am probably going to get lovingly scolded by my beloved, wonderful husband for staying up so late to finish this, but there is never time in the day to post updates. So I’ll head to bed now, in my recliner chair next to Ryan (he has been quiet, unconscious right next to me the entire time I’ve been writing this…except for a bit of coughing). And as I get ready for bed, my mind is just brimming with all these things I am thanking God for…what a great way to end this day.

We love you ALL. I’ll do my best to post an update this weekend…or especially if anything changes. Again, thank you for your understanding and grace. If you know people who aren’t on FaceBook, but are wanting to know what is going on, if you’d pass this along we’d greatly appreciate it. We just don’t have time to answer text messages, FB messages, phone calls, etc…as much as we’d like to. The doctors keep us very busy, and when we’re not busy with them, we don’t want to miss a minute with Ryan since we don’t know how many more we’ll have left.

Trusting in His grace & mercy,

Rob and Linda

As I have shared with you our friends are going through a tough trial.  It has been ongoing for about 8 or 9 years since Ryan and Kristin were about 11 or 12.  Twelve days ago Ryan was found unconscious from a heroine overdose and has been in a coma every since.  His wish was to not be kept alive on life support and Thursday he was taken off of them.  MRI’s showed the terrible brain damage from the overdoses he has had.

Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Here is an update that Ryan’s mom, Linda, posted on Facebook yesterday at 11:05pm:

We apologize for not posting updates for a while; we realize that so many of you have been faithfully praying and waiting to hear about the change in Ryan’s condition. Thank you for your grace & patience. Since the afternoon when we were supposed to move Ryan to the hospice we have been in an absolute whirlwind of emotions, extremely busy with Ryan and in seemingly continual meetings with our fantastic medical team who are making decisions about Ryan’s care.

Basically, Ryan’s prognosis has not changed. We are still at Harborview, though we’ve been moved to a large private room on an upper floor where Ryan’s doctors felt it would be more quiet for Ryan and for our family (we are still in no visitor and isolation mode, because he has c. diff, which is actually a very nasty contagious diarrhea). A group of nine doctors met with us today for over an hour and a half, and their medical consensus is that Ryan will most likely die from the damage to his body caused by the drug overdose and the subsequent oxygen deprivation.

However, we were given an ENORMOUS, miraculous gift on Thursday…something NONE of the doctors at Harborview Medical Center have ever seen, heard of, or found documentation of happening before. After being completely unresponsive for 10 days, with no body movement or improvement neurologically, we experienced something absolutely incredible. As Ryan was being moved from his bed to the gurney for transport to the hospice, the EMT moving him asked him if he was doing okay. He answered, “Yup. 100 percent.” Everyone in the room audibly gasped. He went on to answer when asked his name, and to tell us that he was not feeling pain. He was still not moving, his eyes were roving (didn’t seem to be seeing us at all) and he was speaking in a somewhat robotic sounding voice. But for the next several hours, Ryan interacted with us!! He continued to answer questions in an intelligent, cogent manner…astounding the doctors who have an MRI that shows that his brain should not be capable of any speech whatsoever.

When Rob asked him what he wanted, he said, “That is a complicated question.” After Rob had given him a drink of water, and he was able to swallow well, Larissa told him that he had done a good job, and he asked, “Are you being sarcastic?” When the neurologist came in and introduced himself to Ryan, Ryan said, “Whassup?”

It gets even better…God is SO good….when Rob asked Ryan if he knew how proud Rob was of him, he said, “Yes, I know.” And when I told him I loved him, he replied, “I love you, too.” When Larissa expressed her love (Lindsey and Riley were not there at the time), he told her he loved her, then said, “…and Riley, too.” I wish you could see me smiling as I am writing this…how could God have given us a more precious gift? At one point, Rob asked him a question that he used to ask the kids every night before bedtime when they were little..”Who loves you the most?” Ryan answered, “God.”

We were given a gift on Thursday that we will never forget, and will never stop thanking God for, no matter what tomorrow holds. Today Ryan has been only spoken a little bit, and has not made any other neurological improvements. He has been unconscious most of the day. So we are choosing to praise our awesome God for this gift that none of the doctors here can understand or explain, and we are going to take one day at a time, trusting Him to continue to carry us through this. And…God has given us a great deal of peace about trusting our highly skilled team of doctors, who are making the decisions about Ryan’s continuing care.

The best way you can support us is to join us in taking one day at a time…not jumping ahead to predict what God is going to do or not do, but simply being with us in the moment, rejoicing with us that we got to talk with our son, but also knowing that we do not know what tomorrow will hold, so our entire family is feeling very fragile right now. The five of us, thanks to your prayers, are so blessed to be so close to one another, and to be together as we come around Ryan in love…and in grief that he is going through such a traumatic thing. It is hard for all of us to see him unconscious and unable to move his body or to see us…but we are all remembering (thank you, Pastor Steve) that this is God’s story, and, again, He loves Ryan far more than all five of us put together. And if you could feel the love in this room right now, that is an ENORMOUS amount of love, let me tell you.

We are feeling OVERWHELMED by gratitude…our list is so long that I would be up all night writing if I listed everything, but I am going to just tell you the few things that have reminded us of how faithful our God is to us during this extremely difficult time of our lives. And He is using many of you to bless and encourage us…we have been so moved.

• Our head nephrologist (kidney doctor) actually offered to let us come to her home to shower, sleep and do laundry!!
• Our head ICU doctor just came upstairs tonight and gave us his personal cell phone number, so that if we have ANY problems on the new floor we are on, we can call him to come and help us even though he is technically not our attending doctor anymore…we are AMAZED at the care we are getting here!).
• Two of my dear friends, Tracy & Mary, from the place I worked in the late 90’s went to our house and thoroughly cleaned it from top to bottom…which hasn’t been done in…never mind.
• Five of Rob’s dearest firefighter friends, Paul, Dustin, Doug, Andrew, and Jesse came and did work in our huge forested yard, pressured washed everything, and basically did all the jobs that have been making Rob feel terrible that he was not doing (while he has been making our family healing and reconciliation with Ryan a priority).
• Someone anonymously dropped off a VERY generous sum of money on two QFC gift cards, which took off a great deal of stress and worry about the money we’ve been having to spend on eating out this week while I am not earning any income.
• My brother, with whom Ryan is very close, arrived today from California, and has been an incredible help in caring for Ryan, allowing Rob and I to take breaks to talk with doctors or Lindsey, Riley and Larissa. Because he was by the side of two loved ones while they were dying from AIDS, he is, sadly, very comfortable in a hospital setting, and not only extremely loving to Ryan, but very gracious to his nurses, as well. His timing in coming could not have been more perfect. Tomorrow night Rob and I are going to take our first night off and go home together for the evening, and leave Ryan with his Uncle Don, because we know that if Ryan were to wake up with Don here, he would feel completely surrounded by unconditional love (and Don would call us immediately so we could break all speed limits coming back.
• Thank you, so much, Don and Leanne H., for coming to sit with Ryan so lovingly so that my Don could go into the family meeting with us…and then staying not only to support us, but to be a huge support to Lindsey, Riley and Larissa…they appreciated it so very much…you have loved them like your own children.
• Two of our pastors, Chuck and Steve, as well as our dear friend and physician Scott, all came last night to pray with us over Ryan and to help us make sense of what the doctors were saying was a very confusing, upsetting and rather grim day. They were the ones who helped us to “reframe” the day…to realize that even though we had been on a kind of emotional rollercoaster, that we could only choose to view the day as a precious, priceless gift from God…and to treasure it, no matter what the future holds. We do not know, but our faithful God does, and He has ALWAYS carried us through every storm that has come our way, so we KNOW that we can trust Him.
• Our cherished friends Dave and Sue, who have walked the dark valley of losing a child themselves, have really come alongside us to grieve with us and help bear our burden…as well as bringing us teriyaki chicken for dinner (which made Larissa decide that the Martins were definitely her BEST friends ever).

Thank you for taking the time, if you have read this far…to actually sit through this lengthy, and probably inarticulate retelling of the last 40 or so hours. It helps me to process it all…and I don’t ever want to forget all that God has done to prove His great love for our family…and to show us that He really does walk with us through the valley of the shadow of death.

And thank you SO much to those who have, through Emily, provided us with meals, loaded gift cards, and donated to the benevolent fund that June Blender so kindly set up…well, we cannot begin to thank you. Words will never ever express our appreciation. We are so very aware that we in no way deserve all the love that you are showing us, and will never be able to repay it…and we are overwhelmed by how loving, unselfish and generous our friends are. We are the most blessed, and rich of all families to have friends like you.

I am probably going to get lovingly scolded by my beloved, wonderful husband for staying up so late to finish this, but there is never time in the day to post updates. So I’ll head to bed now, in my recliner chair next to Ryan (he has been quiet, unconscious right next to me the entire time I’ve been writing this…except for a bit of coughing). And as I get ready for bed, my mind is just brimming with all these things I am thanking God for…what a great way to end this day.

We love you ALL. I’ll do my best to post an update this weekend…or especially if anything changes. Again, thank you for your understanding and grace. If you know people who aren’t on FaceBook, but are wanting to know what is going on, if you’d pass this along we’d greatly appreciate it. We just don’t have time to answer text messages, FB messages, phone calls, etc…as much as we’d like to. The doctors keep us very busy, and when we’re not busy with them, we don’t want to miss a minute with Ryan since we don’t know how many more we’ll have left.

Trusting in His grace & mercy,

Rob and Linda