Easter seems like a good reason to send you an update.  This fourth (of six) rounds of chemo, combined with a spinal headache from the last spinal injection, has been a bear.  I am currently at day six after chemo and the nausea is improving and only a few episodes of vomiting.  The headache has been constant for twelve days and is improving.  In spite of my maturity, good looks, and great wisdom, my attitude resembled that of just a complainer.  Then, a dear friend, Donna Bland, started meddling, and she suggested that I view a presentation by Joni Eareckson Tada at the 2018 National Conference of Ligonier Ministries.  It turned a “woe is me” into a “wow is me.”   https://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/awakening-2018-national-conference/refined-by-fire/

We know about the events of Easter morning, or better Resurrection morning.  Something else also happened that afternoon.  Two unnamed men were walking to a town called Emmaus, just outside of Jerusalem (Luke 24:13-35).  A stranger joined them and began to explain “And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Him.”  They finally realized that the Stranger was Jesus when He broke the bread with them. Wouldn’t you think that Jesus would have higher priorities on the afternoon of His resurrection than to explain to two confused guys what had happened that morning?  Could it be that Jesus’ plan was, and is, to replace confusion with conviction?  If so, it worked in these men’s lives!  Well…we all might consider taking a walk this afternoon.

Dave/Daddy/Granddaddy/Doc Dave