Counting Blessings

Hello to all our family and friends once again. Usually our blog is filled with all the exciting happening of the previous month and this one will be no different with one exception. April was a wonderful month, great weather and many fun times. During the Easter break I headed down to Swift Current to Scrapbook with my mom for a week. It was a wonderful vacation. In wrote his final exams and did very well in all of them. He is so glad to be done one full year! Ian was also honored in a very neat way; one of his professors asked him to be his Faculty assistant next year. This means that his prof trusts him and that he feels Ian is competent in the subject matter! Ian is really excited about finalizing the details! On to a hard subject to talk about; I have just returned home from a day and a half stay in the hospital. We went for our ultrasound on Thursday morning and it was then that we discovered some very hard details. It turns out that Ian and I have had a miscarriage. This was and is very hard news to deal with. When I spoke with the doctor this morning he said that baby was about 8 weeks when it died. However through all of this we have many blessings; we still have each other, I was not in any physical danger and very minimal pain during the procedure. We are not expecting that this will be easy to deal with and the tears are many but we have hope is Jesus and we are claiming his promises daily! A passage that has been very helpful for me is Psalm 23- The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not be in want, he makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul! Ian has found the last chapter in Hebrews comforting as well because it talks about God never leaving us or forsaking us.
Well unfortunately that is all the time I have for today. Please keep us in your prayers that God would heal my body but most importantly that he would heal our souls!
Love in Christ
Jennifer and Ian Isaak