We looked at Nehemiah pausing the work in chapter five to take care of the poor. Pauses happen.

June tripped over our small dog on Saturday at 11:15a, inside the house, landing squarely on her hip. Her Apple watch detected the fall and before I could get there from the next room, the watch had called 911, and June was talking with the dispatcher. EMTs arrived in minutes. They carefully loaded her into an ambulance and took her to the ER at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, where she was diagnosed with, not a broken hip, but several small broken bones in her pelvis. The main break was the “right superior pubic ramus.” There were two other small breaks.

This is an inoperable injury (like a broken rib or broken collarbone in that respect). “There’s no treatment; it just hurts! The ER doc said she would stay in the hospital 1 – 2 days to meet with occupational and physical therapists. That’s exactly what happened. While she has to be VERY careful when moving in order to avoid over-the-top pain, she made great progress in just two days. She learned to walk with a walker, and together we learned to manage stairs. We were released around 3p, Monday afternoon, to drive home in the snow. Thankfully, we made it safely, and June’s friend Nancy from Nursing School days (class of 1967!) came over to help get us settled in. June continues to progress nicely.

In the meantime, the rest of life is on pause…I canceled two meetings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. I performed a wedding Thursday, but June didn’t get to play the piano for it as she had planned.

We are thankful for the folks who have paused their lives to pray for us and bring food. And we’re excited that someone in the Cayman Islands National Choir, which our daughter Melody directs (in addition to her school job), is paying Melody’s way to come see us after Christmas. A blessing.

…you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4.15, 16, ESV)