A Matter of Prayer

Right now we are at one of the crossroads where we are unsure how to pray.

Rick had an MRI of his knee done on Thursday. He looked the results up on Friday and read that he has a tear in his miniscus... apparently, he's had it this whole time. His knee has been popping and giving out since his knee surgery a year ago and they just now did another MRI of it. We don't know what this means for him... and won't know until Wednesday when he has a follow-up appointment with his doctor.

Sunday (a week from tomorrow) he is supposed to leave with his unit for pre-deployment training. But right now it doesn't look like he'll be joining them. There is paperwork from his knee injury that was done incorrectly months ago and they have been sent back to be done again properly. He cannot leave his orders here Fort Wood until those papers are back. Also, they have reassigned him to work in the Emergency Room on post (and he's like SUPERMAN down there, by the way!) and next week they will start training him to drive the ambulance. It doesn't look like they're planning on letting him go anytime soon. A million possibilities come to mind... but I don't want to get ahead of myself. Or ahead of God.

All of this SOUNDS like an answer to prayer, but it leaves one big question in my mind: What happens if they go ahead and send Rick to Iraq without the proper training? Once again, though, I know that I have to leave this in God's hands.

Please pray that God will use each of these circumstances to lead Rick down the path that God has chosen for our family.

Also, all 3 of our kiddos have a virus right now and are running a fever. Please keep them in your prayers as they heal (and for me as I try to care for them without getting sick, myself).