Saturday, December 15, 2007

Update from Darwin Jacksons

"All is windy about us now,
but the wind will not last always.
The waves beat into our boat;
but when the Lord says,
Peace, be still, they will lie down.
Let all your prayer for us be
that we may rest in the will of God
while the wind lasts."

Amy Carmichael

Were just about done preparing Mary Ann's moms house to sell. I'm down to having only the kitchen left. It'll be good to have this year behind us. It was good to visit so many of you, even though I didn't have my girls with me. It was tough watching Mary Ann's mom deteriorate and die. As I write my brothers wife Pam is having emergency surgery done on her eyes. She had a terrible headache a couple of days ago. After three visits to the hospital, a spinal tap, Cat scan, and numerous other tests they found after she went blind in one eye that it's glaucoma. So they're trying to save the other eye. Please pray for her, and my brother Lenny, that both of them wouldn't resist the Lord any longer and call out to Him.

It looks like I'll be making a trip, Lord willing, to Mazatlan near the end of January to show a new missionary couple around. It looks like we may have a place to live there in Nogales, we'll know for sure in another week or so.

Gracie's second surgery went well and she is now running around like normal only after a couple of weeks. The picture is Gracie and her friend from Church and school Vanessa at Gracie's Birthday.

Oh, "the waves beat into our boat; but when the Lord says, Peace, be still, they will lie down." May the Prince of Christmas Peace keep you all in His joy this Christmas.

Your fellow workers,
Darwin, Mary Ann and Gracie Jackson

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us."
Romans 5:8