I apologize for leaving you on hold, it has been very busy. When I wrote last we were trying to find a flight out for Linda. Her mom had been put in hospital for heart test and it went from bad to worse, what was routine turned into emergency and then they even moved surgery up till the next morning. When we lost Linda's dad we were on the road and Linda had told him she would get there by the time he woke up from surgery and he never woke up. so you can imagine the anxiety as Linda scrambled to find a flight.
We were packing up bus and driving south from central Wisconsin trying to get to Chicago O' Hare airport thinking they'd have more flights out to Florida than anyone in midwest. We had already tried the other regional airports then when we couldn't find a flight we drove and had 4 of our very resourceful friends calling for flights. 2 in Chicago, one in Florida, one in Indianapolis. but they stop sending flights out early in the mid west so we were running out of options as we headed south & east we tried to get flight through the night, then Saturday morning as we continued to drive. Then it got so late saturday afternoon as we headed to atlanta we found out that everyone had cut back so much that now there is very limited service on Saturday afternoons from airports then later no flights.
So we drove on to SC, Linda staying on phone with her brother through surgery. It went from a quadruple bypass to a triple bypass and by then we got to SC. We had to unload our trailer from festival earlier in Summer and then van and then bus and load back trailer and vans to take to Florida, for trailer would be required to finish moving things out of florida that had been stored at Linda's Moms for last several years but this would hopefully bring some closure to us having to leave Florida, losing home, etc. Linda slept for the first time in 2 days after a couple hours sleep she left at daylight to drive to Florida leaving rest of the family with van and trailer to leave shortly after. but since we had spent all day long for Jessica's birthday (she turned 18) on road. Linda felt the thing to do was take her by my parents in south GA, so she could spend a little time with her cousins before entering back into stress of hospital & recovery time with her Grandmother. It's already been a very taxing summer on everyone. So Linda made it to hospital and her mother made it through surgery and me & the children are surviving without the mommy. I so hated canceling the last 2 weeks of tour. There were many people we had not gotten together with and even the children were letting me know they really wanted to play these other festivals, I believe they are really beginning to see what it is we do and how it's not just about music but changing lives and even saving lives. The brother who was putting on fest in Beloit, WI, must of known how I was planning to get Linda to SC, get her a van, and then head back up to Beloit, WI in other van just in time for our spot at festival, for as we were making those arrangements he called having seen on facebook what was happening with us he released us from having to drive back up to wisconsin that was hard for me to let go of, in that he had asked us many times through the years and we were finally able to make it work, then this happens. I was so touched by this brothers graciousness and his encouragement that he knew we were people of integrity and that I was going to try and make the date, but he encouraged us to do what we had to do for family. You know there are some in this thing that make it hard to keep going. Then there's a few like those helping us find flights, devoting their time & resources to us, or the brother who worked on our bus, (Thank you Jesus, it made it home) or the promoter for Beloit festival who so much looked out for us first, not his event. We teach this to our children & bands. But it unfortunately is rarely seen. I have another brother who writes me an encouraging letter almost every month when he sends his financial support to us. The check just goes into the system to keep things rolling and I am beginning to think less & less of finances for anything else other than a tool to keep us going to reach people. But the letters of encouragement are fuel that keeps me pressing forward no matter the cost. We are really g0ing through it now even though we poured all we had out all summer and then some, putting our bodies through more then we ever even thought we could handle, but we go on picking ourselves back up no matter what knocks us down. For He is worthy to give our all. So please don't hear me wrong when I tell of our trials and persecutions. I know hard times push me more into God and that's a good thing.
Finances, well I started ministry with mostly nothing and if we go back to that then praise God we will have most of what we started ministry with. I just pray I've lost a little flesh through the years though I could stand to lose a little more.
No matter what happens, God is so good. I just get into trouble when I expect man to be good... or me to be good. So, be encouraged is what I'm trying to say. If it all goes away tomorrow and the bottom falls out and everyone you know turns on you even your christian brothers & sisters, God is still able and faithful. Guess what, even when we're not. He started this thing and he can fix it and certainly He will finish what he had begun in us.
Exhausted & completely poured out, sitting in South GA,
Glen
Prayer Request for Linda's Mothers Recovery
Linda's health - She's worn out
Finances
and Grace & peace on the family
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