I have not written anything on this platform as Jaimie has been faithful amidst the business of raising our 6 kids and helping me to provide updates for you all. I know many of you are praying for us, and me specifically, on a daily basis and for that I am thankful. Through such prayers the Lord has shown himself faithful to his promise to never leave me or forsake me. He has been a God to me and my children in and through every up and down (certainly we have had both). As Psalm 139 says the darkness and the light are the same to him. 
My physical healing continues little by little everyday. It is imperceptible in the moment but as I look back I see clear progress. Many say that I look more healthy, so I can say for certain that it is not just me. There are other markers as well… I am able to eat greater quantities and a greater variety of food, I am able to stand up and help around the house, I go into my study a couple hours a day to do some reading and to begin to feel normal again. When I left the hospital I weighed in at an astonishing 130lbs. This afternoon I stepped on the scale to see that I have reached 145lbs - still light compared to where I was but a sign of progress.
While these things are encouraging, they are not the things that fill me with the greatest thankfulness. It is rather the little incidents personal to me, noticed by no one else but known to the Lord. It is enjoying a hot coffee in the quiet of an early morning, being able to share Costco samples with my family, eating an anniversary dinner with my wife, hugging the baby, sitting in the pew and hearing the unified voices of my brothers and sisters as they recite the law, confess our faith, and sing God’s praises. These are moments that we all have, I know, but they are made precious to me in these days, in this new normal. They are mine as an answer to your prayers, mine through the grace of God in Christ who cares enough not only to heal but to give us this life in all its fullness. 
It surprises me - his goodness - but it shouldn’t for he has said, “I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” It is abundant for me not simply because I am still alive but because I am alive and the life that is mine is mine in Christ who has chosen to accompany us in our darkness that we might know him in his light. All praise to Him for this new new which even now speaks of that new which is most certainly coming for us all.