"Consider the lilies of the field"

We read in Matthew 6:28 & 29 that even the lilies of the field are more gloriously attired than Solomon ever was...and that the lilies didn't have to work to be so beautiful. When our bed of tiger lilies started blooming, I was reminded of these verses. Woody and I are learning that, like the lilies, we have to depend on God for everything...from the most basic to the most complex parts of our lives.

Woody slept a little better last night. He again worked a full day and walked at lunch. After he got home from work, he was having quite a bit of pain in his shoulder and his upper arm. He finally took a pain pill just before supper and it did help.

I had high hopes this afternoon that we were being called from Vanderbilt (at this point I can just tell when it is a doctor's call)...anyway, it ended up being a call from the dermatologist's office in Murfreesboro. They called to tell Woody that he had missed his appointment with them today. An appointment that we knew nothing about! We counted up and realized that it has been six months since Woody found the lump behind his ear and made an appointment with his Murfreesboro dermatologist, Dr. Bell. That appointment started us on this six-month melanoma marathon. We don't know when the appointment got made...probably automatically. I guess that they didn't know that we are now in the Vanderbilt loop rather than their loop! Now, if Vanderbilt would just call about getting the drug study underway!