It's Thursday night. As I type this I am sitting in my daughter's hospital room watching her sleep. The past couple of days have been rough. The large eight inch scar curling it's way across the left side of her head is healing nicely, although it will ever stand as a reminder of her ordeal. The drainage tube that was in her head after the surgery on Tuesday was removed today, an event that brought not a few tears due to the discomfort. Morphine destroyed the pain but a new enemy has reared it's ugly, if not unexpected, head: Hannah came down with a fever this morning that has only gotten worse as the day has worn on. The risk of infection has always been present. Now we are increasingly concerned. The staff here at Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children are watching her closely. As with everything else, we wait and pray.
What can we do in life when we can't do anything? How do we handle it when what we need to handle is beyond our ability? This whole experience with Hannah's epilepsy and surgery and follow-up is so big, such a large impossibility, that her mother and I find ourselves overwhelmed by the sheer size of both the reality and the "what if's". We have no choice but to lean on Y'shua (Jesus) and remember that Hannah, as all of us, are in His hands of mercy and justice. We pray, we wait, we try to keep the rest of the family going, and we surrender, every day, sometimes every hour of every day, to the Lord. He is bigger than our biggest challenge and stronger than our impossibilities. I know most of you know this but I, for one, am grateful for the reminder.
I'll keep you posted.
It is good that the cut from the surgery is healing, but not so good that Hannah has developed an infection.
ReplyDeleteJack, my mom and I are keeping Hannah in our prayers for the infection to be healed and for Hannah to recover completely from the surgery. For nothing is impossible with HaShem (GOD) and He does listens to our prayers. Hashem (GOD) cares about you and your family.
We are also keeping you and the rest of your family in our prayers for Yeshua (Jesus) to comfort you and give you the strength to make it through all of this, by HaShem’s (GOD's) grace and mercy.
Hugs and Kisses,
-- Diane
If there is anything I can do to help please do not be afraid to ask! I would be more than glad to help you when you bring Hannah home whether it is watch and help with Hannah as I am a nurse or help you with the boys! I am a great babysitter! You are all in my prayers! I understand what you are going thru as my sister had brain surgery twice and both times stayed with me!
ReplyDeleteCall me if you need anything , really anytime, day or night! I am available
Carla
ailable!
all of you remain in my thoughts and prayers! I know you and Vickie lean and trust G-d to be with all of you & full recovery for Hannah is within His power as our ultimate healer. I waiver to mention my concern that Hannah may have an infection although I know it's in all your thoughts and prayers every moment. May G-d be with each of you, giving strength and comfort, feeding your souls and working softly yet constantly to bring Hannah to health and home. Many hugs and love accompany my prayers for you, Vickie, Hannah, Joseph, Benjamin, and Joshua. <3 linda
ReplyDeleteI just read the blog from, now former Rabbi Yosi Fuller. People do not be decieved. This man ruined our congregation, as he was rumored to have done to the congregation in El Paso, TX. I was his former Secretary and resined because he isn't all that he pretends to be. I personally found him to be devisive, arrogant, manipulative, and decietful. Our congreation as well as our building, finances (my husband, who has an accounting background was the Cheif Financial Officer) are in shambles. We were at least 100 or more between membership and faithful worshipers attending "Beth Emanuel". Now from what I understand there are only approximately 20 plus faithful, hanging onto the former beauty that was once "MISHPUCHA". The few faithful that decided that his/your time was up, and wanted him/you out of there, staying in an last diched effort to save whats left of our beloved congregation.
ReplyDeleteMost of us who left when our eyes were opened to the atrocity of the kind of person we were sitting under, either are looking for some place else to call home or not attending any place at all. Some of us have found new homes in other Messianic Congregations, only to find healing and to make some sense of how such a thing could have happened to such a beatiful loving congregational family.
I for onw think this is a lesson for us all. A lesson on what to look for when someone who comes with the title of..Leader,Pastor or Rabbi, in the name of the "LORD". For if we don't learn from this....WE'LL FIND OURSELVES, AS THE HEBREW CHILDREN DID WHEN IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 YEARS, NOT ENTERING THE PROMISE LAND, BUT IN FACT ROAMING AROUND UNTIL WE LEARN OUR LESSON, IN HOW TO PICK A LEADER, TO LEAD US. Congregations beware....you've been warned. Feeling sorry for soneone is not a pre-requiset for leading people.
Just as the serpent whispered to the woman "Truly did God say?????" Beware, the enemy doesn't scream, nor does he yell his intentions. He merely whispers. Because you see, if he whispers, we volunteerily lean in to hear what he's saying, therefore getting our attention and approval without our knowing we've done this. Therefore, never pledge your allegence to a man, even if he finds creative ways to get you to do that.
For more background information and personal testimony regarding the performance of Rabbi Yosi Fuller during his stay at Beth Emanuel not only myself and other congregational members, please contact me at Lesget5@optonline.net
SHEEP PLEASE BE AWARE, and God Bless!
Leslie Hicks
Former member BETH EMANUEL, in Philadelphia, PA
This is Vickie Fuller. If you want to know what really happened, then go to God, not any man or women as Leslie offers above unless you go to both parties involved. Though Rabbi Yosi and I will gladly share our hearts about our service here at Beth Emanuel, I hope that you will know that God alone has the whole picture.
ReplyDeleteAs per the accusations: For the record, we did not leave our congregation in El Paso Texas out of conflict or "because we ruined it" as the above comment mentioned. We left a healthy congregation in the hands of another Pastor who was called by God to lead our congregation.
As we are leaving Beth Emanuel in the hands of a faithful servant to take Beth Emanuel farther. We are not leaving because we are ruining this congregation but because we love it. Our time here has been a tearing down process to get the foundation of this ministry to be Yeshua centered. We have done that... God did the cleaning of the house, not Yosi Fuller, or anyone else. If Leslie or the other members were supposed to be here, they would be, unless they went out of God's will and left.
Reading the comment left by Leslie says only two things: 1. someone is holding onto bitterness, and 2. Forgiveness is not present. Leslie, and all the members of Beth Emanuel, believe what you will but we wish you all nothing but healing and forgiveness and hopefully good will toward us as we have strived and have forgiven, healed and hold goodwill towards you all. You can crush our name and reputation all you wish because we are not here for ourselves. God is our defense and He knows. So until the end we hold fast to Him and Him alone.
For more background on Yosi Fuller, get on your knees and pray.
Shalom. This is Rabbi Yosi Fuller.
ReplyDeleteLeslie, we love you and your family in the Lord. Till we meet again.
As a former member of Kehillot Beth Tikvah(Rabbi Yosi's former synagogue in El Paso, TX) I can safely say the rumor is FALSE. Furthermore, Leslie Hicks has provided no proof to show this to be true. All that I can find in her writing is anger and hatred. 1 John 3:15 says: Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. If anything people should be wary of her.
ReplyDeleteAaron Hinojosa
Former member Kehillot Beth Tikvah, in El Paso, TX