Fill This House - TONIGHT!

By Michael Q. Pink

On Friday, Brenda required medication which effectively terminated the alternative treatment we were giving her for the last several weeks. The “healing poultice” as we have oft referred to it, is nullified in the presence of most drugs. We had to make the difficult choice between short term survival and long term healing.

In the last nine weeks, Brenda slowly lost the ability to eat food, swallow supplements or even drink fluids. For the last two weeks we have been sustaining her by IV, but on Saturday we had to give that a pause. Her body was not processing the fluids. Her extremities were swelling. Her lungs were filling with the fluids that were meant to nourish her. Fever had set in and has raged for days between 101 – 104 degrees.

On Sunday when the swelling had not let up and the IV site lost its ability to receive fluids, it was clear that continued IV support would harm and not help. I personally removed that last means of physical support from Brenda. I would not delegate this to anyone else. It had to be me. Some of you understand why.

I cannot adequately describe for you how that felt: The necessary detachment, the overwhelming implications, the gravity of it all. I was walking through my own Red Sea experience, but instead of great walls of water on either side, there were walls of emotions threatening to collapse upon me at any moment that were being held at bay by an invisible Hand of Grace. As day turned into night, my soul was screaming… “Does anyone besides me hear the clock ticking?!?!?!”

It is now early afternoon Monday. Brenda has given us a number of small but encouraging signs. She has been able to open her eyes and keep them open for longer periods of time. Karise is certain she heard a very muffled but determined, “Praise the Lord” coming from Brenda during prayer. She is still fighting. We can do no less.

I got so much help from the saints who came to our home yesterday to pray and encourage that tonight we are going to “fill the house”. The whole church is invited to our home tonight for a time of prayer, worship, song and even blowing of the shofar. We are going to release a sound and affect the spiritual atmosphere. We are hoping for more. If you can stop for a few moments tonight around 7:00 PM Eastern Time and join your voices with ours from wherever you are, I would be grateful.

As I said on www.BrendaPink.com Saturday, “Remember the Irish man in BraveHeart? He referred to Ireland as “his” island, as if he owned it. He was a little off balanced and dangerous, but fiercely loyal. Tonight, I am that Irish man and Brenda is my island. I will not give her up to cancer. I am not ready to surrender. Tonight, we get dangerous, not in a physical irresponsible way, but rather in our fight in the spirit for a woman the enemy wants silenced.”

If you like, you can call 941-356-6883 and leave a message of support. It is a cell phone which has a shofar for a ringtone and will let Brenda know you are with her when it rings.