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\"RefugeSimple Pleasures\u2026<\/h4>\n

A swallow of cool water,\u00a0a greasy hamburger,\u00a0a steaming cup of Dirty Chai T.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an interesting couple of weeks. Ever since my surgery to remove my kidney stone, I knew something wasn\u2019t right.
\nIncreasing pain and continual sores in my mouth- barely able to swallow, shedding weight like I was an Olympic wrestler trying to drop a weight class- 30 pounds! Finally, around the first week in August it came to a head with pain that was almost intolerable.
\nMy tonsil had become an oozing sore and my uvula was a massive lesion. The working hypothesis at the time was that I was struggling with a form of throat cancer. They have removed the tonsil, done biopsies and thank the Lord erased that possibility.<\/p>\n

Finally, a team of infectious disease specialists are working on a diagnosis of a rare auto immune disease called: Behcet\u2019s Desease. I have read about it extensively on the Mayo Clinic\u2019s website and it seems to fit this to a T- it even gives explanation to earlier less severe bout\u2019s I have had in past years.
\nThank the Lord, it is treatable and with some drug therapy should go into remission and be managed. I am hopeful to be back into the pulpit next week.<\/p>\n

Through it all I am learning to be content in whatever state I am. Unlike Paul, I haven\u2019t yet learned it- but I hope I am progressing in Christ Likeness and trust.
\nI would ask that you seek the Lord for me, not so much for healing- as for grace. That I would embrace His plan and grow more like Him in it. I am reminded often that His grace IS sufficient! His POWER is made perfect in our weakness and when we are weak HE IS STRONG.
\nLet this be all our prayers.
\nBecause of Grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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