Spent the weekend at the hospital. My dad has CLL. He has been undergoing treatment for a number of months now. The initials drugs he was taking didn't really work as wekk as expected so he is now undergoing a clinical trial drug. I don't remember the name. All of that has destroyed his immune system so he is vulnerable to anything. Well, last week he suddenly got an infection in his knee. I got a call last Thursday that it was life threatening. I'm happy to say that it looks like the infection is gone. They do not know what it was but it appears to be gone.

On a side note, I got to find out more about my dad's church. I didn't think much of the church initially but have higher hopes now. The church seems to be good doctrinally but my dad only takes out of it what he wants which isn't good. I may attend in the near future to get more of a feel for the church. I chatted some theology with my dad's Sunday school teacher. He seemed to be solid. Thanks for all of your prayers

Lastl, I'm so grateful for the sovereignty of God. To know that God is in control of everything is such a comfort. I'll end with one of my favorite and one of the deepest verses in all of Holy Writ,

4 Who has done this and carried it through,
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD -with the first of them
and with the last—I am he."

When one looks at the context one understands that God is talking about history and He speaks of it in creation language (see chap. 4). God is with the first and last of the generations. Trillions of years from now God is already there. God is already in the Kingdom of His Dear Son. He is outside of time. Nothing happens without God's say so. There is no such thing as purposeless evil or tragedy with God. It all happens according to His will What a comfort that is.