Note from Todd |
| Posted by Bill Orf (billorf) on Mar 29 2007 at 12:22 AM |
To my dear family,
I am not real sure why but I am having a hard time writing an update tonight. So I guess I will tell you what’s to come over the next few days. I leave in the Morning for Omaha and am looking forward to a full weekend of great opportunities to reach out to hundreds of people. We will be hosting the regular worship services and bible studies but in addition,
Mike Lee, Brooks Brewer, Kody Lostroh and I will be ministering at a local Harvest Church Sunday morning. That night Brooks will fly us to Burwell, NE to minister at another church. I return home Monday.
As most of you know, I spent about ten days with Lee and Mary Akin in Montgomery, AL following his devastating accident. I won’t even attempt to explain all that happened during that time because it is all still such a blur. I will say this. Mary Akin is operating in the supernatural as she is walking in a miracles amount of Joy and Peace. Despite the overwhelming reality of Lee’s massive head injury and the many setbacks they have already endured. Mary has to hear the doctors’ daily reports that are typically presenting her with worst case scenarios. This storm has revealed the character and depth of relationship she lives in with her Heavenly Father. I would hate to see what her life would be like during this time if she had attended a church because she wanted the social interaction or if she believed reading the Bible and going to meetings was her religious duty to appease an angry God. What if she studied the word in attempts to store up enough knowledge that she would be considered wise in her peer’s eyes? Worse yet, what if she had never been introduced to the Lord Jesus, the evidence of God’s love for people. She would have been devastated in every way. Yet, because she had been walking in a living, breathing, loving relationship with her loving Father, she is able to remain unmoved by her circumstances. Has she experienced times of fear and frustration? You bet. But always coming back to her foundational belief that her Father is a good Daddy and if she could see the whole picture he was painting, she would fall on her face in worship and praise for his love.
As you continue to pray for her and Lee, don’t forget to thank him for the hardship that has brought hundreds of thousands of people together as they are unified in their prayers of love and desperation. We can’t loose. We know what it is like to be abased and to abound and we have found that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Make sure and squeeze those close to you a little tighter and longer tonight. Thank you Father for giving us the capacity to love in such extravagant ways.
In Jesus name,
Todd and Leslie
