The Huffmaster Family

From our home to yours! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and pray you have a blessed New Year!

FINAL UPDATE: Jack had his stitches removed last Monday and he’s healing up very nicely! The best news is he also got his final biopsy report and it was ALL CLEAR!!!!!!! There’s nothing further he’ll need to do and we are Praising the Lord!!

UPDATE #2: Jack made it through the procedure very well! They took out quite a bit of tissue (they had to go 3 layers deep and then took out more on each side and over/under where the original mole was removed) and he has a bunch of stitches both inside the wound that was left and on the surface. They did another biopsy to make sure there are no pre-cancerous cells left and we’ll have those results within the week. He’ll go back in 10 days to have the stitches removed, and he’s to be off work this weekend. Please pray for quick, uneventful healing!

UPDATE: Good news!! Not the best, but not the worst Praise The Lord! The biopsy results came in a few days early and it is pre-cancerous. Jack will be going in to the doctor tomorrow morning (11/14) to have some further surgery to remove more tissue around the perimeter of where the mole was originally removed. Please pray it’s not too painful and that this is all that’s needed to be rid of the pre-cancerous skin cells.

My husband Jack had two moles on his back that looked suspicious and he was able to go in Monday (11/10) and have them examined.  The one we were most concerned about didn’t see to be too much of a concern, but the other one did concern the doctor. He said at first glance they didn’t look to be melanoma, but the one did look dysplastic to him. The doctor removed both moles for pathology and we should have the results back on Monday morning (11/17) which will tells us if either or both are benign (no cancer or otherwise), dysplastic (pre-cancerous), or malignant (cancer).

We are praying they are both benign of course, but if not dysplastic would be the better diagnosis vs malignant, since a diagnosis of dysplastic would only require a bit more surgery to take care of and complete the treatment.

Please pray for my husband when he comes to your mind. He is my everything and only comes 2nd to the Lord in my heart and life. We are praying for the very best outcome of benign, but we will accept whatever the Lord has for us and take it one day at a time!

Blessings, Dawn

But they aren’t my words…they belong to someone much more important, the MOST important! JESUS!

Daniel 2:21 He (God) changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Romans 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities , for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities ; all things were created by him and for him.

John 19:11 (speaking to Pilate) Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above . Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

Daniel 4:17 “`The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.’

Daniel 5:21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes.

I’ve been reading online and so many are so very distraught over the fact Obama was just elected. Yes I admit I cried real tears and not of joy! I was heartbroken and just pitiful or so I thought at the time. Once I pulled myself up by my bootstraps though and dug into the Bible where the answers to ALL of life’s questions can be found and read the above scriptures, my heart was settled and peace then flowed into it.

It comes down to these thoughts:

The duty was ours…we fulfilled our duty in this election by doing our best to promote our candidate in our community, and subsequently voting for him. The results of that election are God’s. To those of you reading who did not vote for President-Elect Obama, keep the faith! The Word says Obama is our President-Elect because God himself established that position. (Romans 13:1) I beleive the Bible means what it says, and the Lord will not forsake us.

Now that he has been elected I am committed to praying for him, and for our country…he is now the President of these United States, and history was made in America on November 4, 2008 and we and our children got to witness something that many Americans thought would never come to be.

Blessings, Dawn

I was cleaning out a room this evening and came across these pics that had fallen out of a box.

Aren’t I a cutie? LOL This is me in 1st grade!

WHOA I wonder how much my aqua net stock is worth now? ROFL!!! Me senior year 1993!

As I shared these with some friends they asked which one of my children look like my first grade pic and at first I thought my 14yo and my 6yo, but then looked at a pic of the 6yo and thought no not really. Then I compared them side to side. She most certainly has my nose if nothing else. *grin*

What do y’all think? I say we’re related for sure! haha

Nothing “in particular”, but just sitting here thinking about my children and listening to the daily “noises” of children, my hard working and studying hubby, thinking about sweet baby grins and the softness of their skin, the Fall weather coming in, and it just brings a content song to my heart that everything will be OK because we love the Lord and are in His hands all the time.

Yes there are chores to be done and some downright messes, and children to train and burdens on my heart, but I am just feeling this quiet slice of peace today. It’s almost overwhelming because I haven’t felt like this in a little while…and it makes you want to breathe out a huge sigh of relief, and just be happy to be a Christian!

“Philippians 4:11-13 (King James Version)
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

I just love that verse! I think I’m going to claim this for myself in particular and commit it to memory since I feel like the Lord is showing me just a glimpse today of how this feels and I like it!  

Blessings, Dawn