Mark called this morning. Thank God. And thank you for all of your prayers, they are indeed working. There was an incident on Saturday that I won’t go into here, I will say that he thanked us for praying that Hedge of Protection around him and that at that moment he said he felt it, and that it’s some pretty strong stuff. He asked that we keep praying for him, for his guys, to keep them safe so that if another similar situation occurs they are again able to walk away unharmed.

Every letter that Caitlin writes to him she tells him that she prays for a Head of Pertishin around him every night. Last Tuesday when we talked he said he wasn’t sure what that was, and it took him a half hour to sound it out and know what she meant. Well, be it a Head of Pertishin or a Hedge of Protection, we’re pretty certain our guy’s head and hedge alike are glowing in the desert over there. (This is the story I tell Caitlin to make her feel better about him not getting hurt.)

He’s going to try to call again tonight or tomorrow. The line was a thousand men long. Wives and families across the country jumping to answer the phone today just like I did.

Took my lemon into the shop this morning to get a leak checked, and I decided to nurse it along for a while. We also went to the post office and got his first 2 packages off in the mail to him (if you can add a little ditty to God about they’re safe and speedy arrival too, that would be great!). One of the packages has a beautiful patriotic oil painting by Erika included in it. I can’t wait for him to get that hung in his trailer. I know it’ll be the talk of the camp! 🙂

That’s all for now. I haven’t worked on anything except a few small wooden bird houses with Caitlin. We went down to Dick Blick and picked up some things (including a few new tubes of oils) when I spotted the little bird house kits. We have some beautiful Purple Finches’ around who I’m hoping take to one of these little homes. I will post pics when we get them painted.

Gotta work on a few things tonight, banner, return e-mail, etc. I am behind, and still feeling stuffy and headachey from this cold!

Thanks again everyone for your prayers!!
xoxoxo