The past three weeks….

What an eventful three weeks I've had since my last blog post at the end of January. First I headed to the Netherlands for a week of leadership meetings. It was a cold, snowy week on the outside, but on the inside there was a warm sense of God's presence and many of the leaders (who had come from every corner of Europe) said that they had been encouraged and envisioned by our times together. Towards the end of March, a smaller group of us, with kind of an "eldership" function, will gather in Malaga to consider the practical implications of things God has been saying to us about reaching the continent of Europe with the gospel. 

I spent only a short and rainy weekend back in Alhaurin between returning from Holland and leaving again to travel to Scotland, where I had been called back for further tests at the breast screening clinic, after a recent scan showed something that raised concern. However, after some hours of tests (mammograms, ultrasounds, etc) I was finally given the good news that I was cancer free. I'd had a sense from the Lord that this would be the result, but it was nice to hear it officially from the doctors too.

The post-bronchitis cough had continued to plague me all through the weeks in Holland and Scotland, so I finally went to see my GP to try to find out what was going on with my lungs. The doctor confirmed that, after two weeks of antibiotics, I was well and truly bronchitis-free, but that - due to my underlying lung condition - my small airways were inflamed and struggling to recover from the infection. She prescribed me two different kinds of inhalers (like the kind used by asthmatics), with instructions to use them for two or three weeks until the coughing subsides. After using them for ten days now, I'm certainly coughing a bit less, but the cough hasn't disappeared yet and I'm getting a bit tired of it. It's been more than a month now, and I'm praying that it will stop very soon. Thanks for standing with me in prayer.