This past week

Thank you all for your heartfelt words of encouragement for Sasa & Mila and most importantly, for all your prayers. Last week was very challenging for Sasa and the family, as the chemo started ravaging his body and he was unable to be awake for much time at all. Towards the end of the week, Mila could only talk to him for 16 minutes and he was barely able to check messages on his cell phone. Mila had challenges of her own with increased pain due to a fall the week before (she scraped her knee, shoulders and arms), the added stress of Sasa's condition and Jacob getting an infection.

Here are some words we wanted to share with both of them:

"But this precious treasure- this light and power that now shine within us- is held in perishable containers, that is, in our weak bodies. So everyone can see that our glorious power is from God and is not our own.

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies."

2 Corinthians 4:7-10

Thank you for praying for Sasa, Mila, Laura & Jacob and his parents, who are now sharing the family apartment in Zagreb. They all need God's embrace, strength and courage to carry them through, one day at a time.