What a Crazy Weekend

Wow, our weekend was jam packed and it all started Friday. We attended the Brodies 4th of July party and that was a lot of fun, but it started to storm and we all got wet. We ended up inside watching a movie. We went home around 8:00PM and on the way home Michael got a call from his mom. (Let me give you a history lesson first. Michael and his mom have just started talking again this last week. Michael's parents live in a highly dysfunctional marriage. Michael's mom has severe MS(limited feeling in her legs, the losing of bladder control, weak, et.). She has been teaching but is now off for the summer. Michael's dad has emotionally abused Susan(his mom's name too) for the entirety of their marriage(32 years). He does not work, but is trying for his PhD in Psychology(scary). The last time Michael had contact with his parents was 5 months ago when Susan said she wanted out. Michael and Greg(his brother) went over to mediate that leave and she chose Henry over her boys. That was the last straw for them, and they knew they would have to cease all contact. This loss of contact for Susan has really done the trick in getting her to realize that she needs out) She said that Henry had put towels in front of the door and she could not get out of the room to go to the bathroom or to eat. So Michael and Greg headed over and called the police. They all entered the house and began to get her out. There was no Henry in the house. Micheal went upstairs and found that the room Henry was living in was clean, and air conditioned. Henry finally appeared downstairs and was like 'what is going on. Sue you know I love you. Let me talk to her.' The police were awesome they told him to back away and they set him in a chair in a corner. She stayed at our house the first night. She needs so much care and Michael was awesome, but we knew we needed to get her in a hospital and Audobon took her. Side Note: that area around Audobon is awesome, I would love to live there! She will be discharged in a few days to a rehab place and Michael and Greg are having to go and look at places today. It is all so fast, but I wouldn't replace it for the world. Michael and I have been togther for 9 years and married 7. And this has gone on for the entirety of it and we have waited so long for Susan to be ready herself to get out and I just praise God that it has finally happened. We have been at the hospital and have been a family like it always should have been. Susan is eating food, being washed, helped to the bathroom, being loved on, etc. Wow. God's plan is sooooooo good.

Please be praying for our family as we have to make tough decisions in such a short amount of time. Attorneys, filing for disability, visiting her, our jobs, our ministry, our families. It all seems so insurmountable, but we just beg of you for your prayers that God will let everything be so smooth and that with a Chick-Fil-A event at the end of the week that I won't get moody. I want to be moody-less and just be joyful in God who will be my strength and our families strength.

Just a note. When Michael and I were visiting homes yesterday we ended up at Eden Terrace on Blankenbaker across the street from Southeast Christian Church. They were Christ to us and I don't think they were Christians. I walked in asking for info on the place and the lady was making punch and handing out cookies and offered some to me. And by that time of day, I was so thirsty and she was there filling a drink for me. Wow. Then the lady we met with, sat us down in the porch area and listened to our story. She was soooooo compassionate and even though Eden Terrace is personal pay and we figured Susan could not afford it, she still worked on helping us calling someone who was on vacation for recommendations of places. They were Christ to us. We were so overwhelmed with the list of homes(about 70 in all) that we were just stir crazy and didn't know where to start. And God provided them as a means of clarification and refreshment! God is so awesome!

How is everybody doing? Would love to hear from everybody.

Love to you all,
Susan Luka