"WHO FORGIVES ALL YOUR INIQUITIES, WHO HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES " Psalm 103:2

HAPPY?ANNIVERSARY-Ten years ago today I was life-Flighted for a surgery that 
had a 0% chance of success. For three days a stroke had caused bleeding at 
the base of my brain. Unconscious and helpless, I was to have a shunt run 
from the brain to my abdomen (a surgery to remove it became essential over 
two years later). After eleven weeks intensive care and a total of thirteen 
months in hospitals in Ohio and Texas, on May 1,1992 I was released to return 
to home in Xenia, Ohio. Grace Community Church retained me as pastor and 
called Larry and Nancy Cole as interim leaders. The Coles succeeded me on 
October 1, 1994, and serve there today. I am a wheelchair tenant, paralyzed 
on the right side. Subsequent surgeries made me a person with a quadruple 
by-pass heart and two below-knee amputations. My purpose in sharing any of 
this with you is not for sympathy, prayer is okay. My purpose is two-fold: 
1. Jack Hayford penned a chorus that long has been a favorite as an ode to 
God--
The Steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases
His Mercies Never Come to An End
They Are New Every Morning, New Every Morning
Great is Thy Faithfulness, O' Lord; Great is Thy 
Faithfulness
2. In response to queries, I saw an outline that I have used in private and 
publicly.
SURVIVAL FACTS Text: Proverbs 2:8 "He preserveth the steps of His saints"
Three factors in an unfailing formula.
1. SIMPLE FAITH-No time for any big words or statements of doctrine. How 
about 
"Jesus Loves Me, This I Know, For the Bible Tells Me So"

2. STRONG FAMILY- Wife, children, brother, sister, grandchildren, aunts, 
uncles, 
and cousins all who know how to pray. Add a committed church family 
and a host 
of friends along with a cadre of health care professionals and you have 
a strong 
link.

3. SURE FUTURE- I do not mean to indicate that this has been an easy 
decade; but the 
certainties that surround all of my "tomorrows" has cushioned the 
blows.

CANCER-I have given you two requests for prayer in this area. The doctors 
are pleased and perplexed in each case-please keep praying.

LINKS-Thanks you for your help here. You have responded to me, and Mike has 
them posted for you to read and download. NOTE-I have not taken the time to 
follow down each contributors "Links". Therefore: I cannot vouch for 
anything but the initial contact. I am rightfully proud of them. 


DOES IT MATTER?-A weekly news magazine that I read carried a piece of trivia 
this week. Who really cares that the people of Salt Lake City eat more 
Jell-o per capita than the people in Des Moines? It led me to think that if 
Satan can get us all to "major in the minors" of life, he has won his battle 
with us.

His,

Ron Krantz