I wanted to say a big thank-you to Jonathan Pait who rode on Mike's behalf in the Palmetto Peloton Project to raise money for cancer research. I am overwhelmed that he would do this. It has meant so much to our family.
Just to give you an update, I continue to work on the tract about Mike's testimony. We hope to gear the tract to saved teens, encouraging them to be willing to go into full-time Christian service. Teens were Mike's heartbeat, so I think this focus for the tract is very appropriate. Although it has been difficult to write (and, believe it or not, I'm still writing), I think the Lord will use Mike's story to glorify Himself. I will try to keep you updated on the progress of the tract over the next few weeks, so you'll know as soon as it is finished.
Grace and I are taking everything a day at a time. I miss Mike so much. It is hard to believe that he has been gone for almost three months now. We're adjusting to our different life, and God is giving the moment-by-moment grace that we need to make it. Grace loves her daddy very much and still picks up his pictures and kisses them everyday. It does her mommy's heart good!
I will be starting a caring bridge website for my brother Randy, who was diagnosed yesterday with thyroid cancer. The site will be www.caringbridge.org/randallrhodes
Thank you for all of your continued prayers and cards. I cannot tell you what an encouragement it is to know you bring us before the Lord!
Love you all,
Lora
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Welcome
Welcome to our new site! I hope this will be helpful to all of you as you follow Mike's continuing story. Mike's life did not end at his death. He lives on in a REAL place called heaven where he is now perfectly healthy and perfectly happy. His memory lives on here on earth in the way that God has chosen to use Mike's story! We hear stories almost daily of the many ways God continues to get glory for what He has done. And as long as I and our family have breath, we will be telling his story wherever we can.
We actually have tshirts, wristbands, and are currently working on a tract that will tell the awesome way God used Mike's life. I will use this site to keep you updated on what we are doing in the Pastor Mike ministry and I hope you will use this site to keep us updated also (you can leave comments below this entry). Leave notes when you can and let us know how God is using Mike's story in your life or your ministry.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
This is a question that I came face to face with June 16 when Mike passed away. I felt like I had come to a literal crossroads--one direction was believing word for word what the Bible taught about eternal life, the other direction was despairing in my loss. The question was simple (the answer a little more difficult). Did I believe that Christ's sacrifice bought Mike and gave him the ultimate life even though all I could see was a physical death?
It was not as simple as it sounds when it was my soulmate I saw lying there. Maybe my choice should've been automatic, but it wasn't. I had to make a conscious choice to hold fast to God's promises that He was taking care of my husband even though I couldn't see him. I had to fight down the feeling of panic rising inside me when I realized I could no longer care for him myself. He was just gone. There was absolutely nothing I could do for him anymore.
Hebrews 11:1 became more real to me than at any other time, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." I had to do some heart-checking. I had to be convinced that I believed what I said I believed. I had to (and still have to) step out on faith in a God that, to my shame, I did not know as I should. I still feel like I know little about my great God, but one thing I know for sure, He loves me (and you) with an EVERLASTING love. He desires a relationship with each one of us and He is waiting, as the father of the prodigal son, with His arms open.
Please contact me anytime. I am so grateful to all of you who are also dedicated to using Mike's story and remembering his life.
We actually have tshirts, wristbands, and are currently working on a tract that will tell the awesome way God used Mike's life. I will use this site to keep you updated on what we are doing in the Pastor Mike ministry and I hope you will use this site to keep us updated also (you can leave comments below this entry). Leave notes when you can and let us know how God is using Mike's story in your life or your ministry.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
This is a question that I came face to face with June 16 when Mike passed away. I felt like I had come to a literal crossroads--one direction was believing word for word what the Bible taught about eternal life, the other direction was despairing in my loss. The question was simple (the answer a little more difficult). Did I believe that Christ's sacrifice bought Mike and gave him the ultimate life even though all I could see was a physical death?
It was not as simple as it sounds when it was my soulmate I saw lying there. Maybe my choice should've been automatic, but it wasn't. I had to make a conscious choice to hold fast to God's promises that He was taking care of my husband even though I couldn't see him. I had to fight down the feeling of panic rising inside me when I realized I could no longer care for him myself. He was just gone. There was absolutely nothing I could do for him anymore.
Hebrews 11:1 became more real to me than at any other time, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." I had to do some heart-checking. I had to be convinced that I believed what I said I believed. I had to (and still have to) step out on faith in a God that, to my shame, I did not know as I should. I still feel like I know little about my great God, but one thing I know for sure, He loves me (and you) with an EVERLASTING love. He desires a relationship with each one of us and He is waiting, as the father of the prodigal son, with His arms open.
Please contact me anytime. I am so grateful to all of you who are also dedicated to using Mike's story and remembering his life.
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