26th of December
Now it is already one week ago, that we told you that Puschels tests in Berlin went well. To know that fact helps us to plan ahead and to see what should happened next.  Puschel was able to participate at the preparation for the Christmas service. At least as much she was able to do with her strength and pain. At Christmas eve the youth from our church did a play written after the story in Luke. The place was the hostel in Bethlehem.  It was a live play where Puschel was the owner of the barn where Jesus was born. Puschel is the oldest of the youth group  so  she played with the young ones. Puschel has now a supportive place at our church, especial for question for the younger kids. Therefore we are happy to have her here right now. God is using her in lots of different ways these days. We are very thankful that she is doing so well already and thank you for your faithful prayer you are sending to our heavenly dad. He gives strength and wisdom, peace and joy. That’s what God is doing through her in this time of the year. Therefore we are more that thankful to have her here.  We are joyful to celebrate Christmas, because He gave us the greatest present and is desperate to live with us. May our father bless you all in the Christmas season

17th of December
Right now we came home from Berlin. So, we wantto share all news of the last two days to you, especially the results of the tests there:
It is goo that Puschel got a lot of tests: X-Ray, MRI, CT, ENT, EKG, blood.
All these result are complete well!!! Thank you, Lord!
So Puschel will be able to start the rehabilitation therapy at the next time. We got the message too that our health insurance will pay for that. It will be in south of Germany. But the exactly time for start is not known for us just now.
Additional we got the information from our division of employment that Puschel will get money for one year, because she has not an registration for pension. So God knows what Puschel needs everytime...!!
So you can imagine that we´re glad to be at home again with all these news... Thank you. Lord, for all. And thank you too far all you prayers and all your encouragement snd support all the time! God bless you!

14th of December
There are two things we would like to tell you and to pray for.

We received from our Health insurance an approval for Puschels rehabilitation and for a certain place called Füssen. That’s a place where they would be able to work with her on the leg and pelvis. They are specified in this area. Puschel had not seen a batter place on the internet. Well, yesterday the insurance called us and told that they will not pay the place basically the reason it that the place does not have a qualification for patients with cancer.  That’s what they told us first, but after talking to them they do not like to pay the ticket to the place (it’s in the south) and the place itself seams a little more expensive.  The last information is that somebody will call us in the beginning of next week, because they want to review there decision.  Please pray for that.

There is another problem we have right now too. Puschel tried to push with her right leg a bin and  then she heard a noise in her leg. Wops! We were able to do an x-Ray and the doctor did not find a broken bone. Praise the Lord! How ever now she has to rest again. On Tuesday she has her next appointment in Berlin. We will show these to the doctors in Berlin again. The problem is probably on the muscles which does mean more pain again and rest!

May our Lord bless you in the time of preparation for Christmas?
Thank you so much for all your prayers!

 

10th of December
Puschel is doing well for her circumstances . It’s all about the view! Yesterday she was able to go horse back ridding with Saba, her pony. While she was on the way, we got a call from her, that we should pick her up with the 4-wheeler. She said that she was to tired from the medicine and it would be saver, if someone would come. Therefore Eva-Maria picked her up and was able to ride with Saba home. Puschel was holding Saba on a string and rode home on the 4-wheeler. After the trip she had to take a hot shower to get her leg warm again. She is still struggling with pain, especial after riding a horse, but it does not effect her happiness of life. She enjoys her life with our father and wants that every body else can and wants to enjoy God too.  What is better than a life in His present?

30th of November
It´s nice to see, that we have more and more normal days. Puschel is working sometimes with a member of our church at the school of our village. You can see it by the pictures above. She is working with her special possibilities in painting and other things.
In all these she is going everytime up to the limis of her body. But it is good to get more power and energy. So Puschel is able to think about a rehabilitation for a new business at the future...

Now she is waiting for the acceptance of the insurance for a medical rehabilitation. We´re excited for these.

In an official statement of medical service from the division of employment Puschel got a paper for being not able to work for a long time. So she has problems to get some money for her daily life from there. So we have to go to oursocial security office. But we´re sure that our god will care for Puschel everytime.
We´re glad to can live with her here. And we´re so thankfull for all each days.

God gave Puschel so good potential for living and working in our church for these time. We can see that she has a very good access to the young people arround. So she is able to share all her experiences with God and share the word of God with them.

Thank you again for all your trueness to pray for Puschel. God bless you all.

21th of November
We can not thank and praise God enough for His faithfulness. Puschel is on the way to get more independent than she was able in the last one and a half year.  Sure enough she still needs lots of care and help, but we know much harder times. Maybe you are interested in her normal daily life.

She still has to take a lot of rest and has double tiredness because of the medicine. Therefore is often not awake earlier than 9:30-10 am. Then she has to take her breakfast already because of her pills So her day starts short before lunch  after lunch she  again has to rest and that ends with the call from her physical therapist how comes in to our house. Since some weeks it only happens twice a week since the budget from her doctor and the insurance is gone. We still hope that we can change it to more times again. Puschel is active as much as possible, but the weakness and pain is still holding her back. You can often see pictures where she is active what does not mean that she is always  on the go. She still has to fight against nausea and take enough rest. But in compare to the chemo time she is very well.  These days we have to go to lots of different departments since she needs some kind of retirement. We count on a year at least for her health to get better until she is able to work at least for some hours. God can…We are thankful for the steps she does every day. And she is also a good  converser for friends and youth from here. And the most important thing for her is always the view up to our father.  Here in our home, church and with friend she is able to shine because of His love, grace and peace. Thank you that you continue to pray for stabilization and that she will be a blessing to others.

08th of November
Again and again Puschel has in this time of the year (if its a reason?) problems with weakness and tiredness But we still have to be patient. This also means that she is not always able to answer every email she was planing on doing so. It is still encouraging if you send her emails, guestbook or mail as a sighn of unity. Thank you for that.

Sure we do not have as much visiters like we had in the summer, but that way she has more time for rest and rehabilitation. And we are still on the way to see what God has in store for her future. Like Rehabilitation and also study for a different job than nursing)

Puschel is because of her pressure and pain in her pelvis not always able to sit at mealtime. Therefore she is using her bigger wheel chair like she does on the pictures where she sits with her grandparents from Dresden. 

29th of October
It´s fine to let you participate sometimes in the life of Puschel. Normally and very fine for usthat the space between these new will be bigger, because Puschel is getting more and more stibility and recovering.
In our trip to Berlin we could remember to the time one year ago. At these time we were not able to imagine that it could be possible to have trips like these. So we have an excited time day by day. Puschel is considering to write (if she would be able...?) a book about thankfulness...

At the last days we got the information that Puschel will get enough money for her livelihood for the next month. That´s also a gift from God for her and for us. 
So we can confidence to our God to give Puschel all nneds for her life and for the way in the future.
 Thank you one time more for your great support by staying in prayer for Puschel and for us all!! God bless you!

15th of October
Today Puschels own words!!
The last few months have been pretty eventful for me. God has moved a lot in my life recently. Many of you have been praying for me for a long time, and now you can see what God has done.

It’s been a while since we have told you about the fracture in my pelvis. Somebody had said then: “Why does she, who had been bound to her bed during the last year, has to be staying bed again?” It was really annoying first, but not in the long term. I didn’t know then what that could be good for, but I knew that God had His reasons. Today I can tell you one of the reasons. The bones in my pelvis are now stronger than before the fracture. The fracture has animated the bone in my pelvis to grow, which lead to higher stability. That is important and good in the long term, of course.

I live in the knowledge that God is there, and that He holds everything in His hands. And God wants to experience our day with us. Our life changes if we live every minute in the knowledge that there is God, who made us in His image. There are, of course, enemies of God- and he destroys what he can: our life, our peace, this world. But that’s why it is even more important to stay close to Him.

What would you give to be able to share your time with the smartest, most loving and holiest person? What do you say to the fact that this person is already waiting for you? We have the chance, but mostly use it only Sundays or when we are in great distress.

I have been thinking lately why we spend so much more time in life on unimportant things instead of the important ones. And what are the important things? I came to the conclusion again that the most important thing is a relationship with God- our creator. I have my spot in heaven because I am His child. But am I enjoying life on earth with all the promises and gifts that He promised us? Equally important is to see and nurture the relationships we have to people that God has entrusted to us. They are more important than all material things on earth and in our life. How little importance have material things to a person that stands in front of the doors of eternity?

Something else struck me. We mostly don’t live in the present (Today). For different reasons we live either in “yesterday” or “tomorrow”. The fact is that we live today. The only question that we have to answer and that lies in the future is the question whether or not Jesus would recognize us on the “door to heaven”?

Do you remember Saba, the pony? It was owned by our neighbors. They are going to move further away because of College and so on. The question was what to do with Saba. They’ll give Saba to me. Awesome, isn’t it? I would never have dreamed to become a horse owner. So, I’ll trust God also to help me with the costs that come with the horse. Saba will help me a great deal to improve my muscles in the right leg. She has been used for horse therapy during the last years and hence is very sensitive. And don’t worry I’ll abstain from trotting and cantering.

I’ve always loved to take pictures. A while ago I bought myself a good camera with which I love trying to catch God’s creation in detail. I feel like Job. Job (a man from the Old Testament) lost a lot in life, and got it back with a huge blessing later on. I can experience how I gain more and more energy and muscles back. I am still in a lot of pain, which often comes during the night. Nausea is an accompaniment of that, and I am also far from being independent again. But I received my life back. I’ll try to live life in the presence of God to enjoy all of the adventures, with all the “friends that cross my path”.

A few weeks ago, Silas went to Ethiopia, Africa. To be honest, I do miss him a lot… I am so glad that he has still been here during the last year. He has been a huge blessing with a servant heart. I just want to point out his website once more to you. If you have time to send him a little “encouragement mail” he would be excited and I would be with him. Even if it is only a very short message… It was also a financial risk for us to let him go. So if you have the possibility to support him it would be a great help to us all and the missionary society “Hilfe fuer Brueder”, which is supporting Silas now. The most important thing is however, that he is accompanied by prayers. Thank you so much for all your support and prayers for us. If we had not had you… but we have you! Thank you! Love and God’s blessings to you all!

11. Oktober
Im Moment gibt es nicht viel Neues, aber das ist angesichts der letzten guten Berichte ja auch eine positive Nachricht, oder? Puschel kann nach und nach ein wenig mehr auf die Beine kommen, obgleich ihr sie hier vor allem auf dem Rücken ihres Lieblingspferdes “Saba” sehen könnt.
In der nächsten Woche geht es um so “banale” Dinge wie z.B. die Frage, von wem sie künftig ein wenig Geld für ihren Lebensunterhalt bekommt...

Danke für eure Treue, mit der ihr hier immer wieder reinschaut.
Wir wünschen euch allen einen guten Sonntag, an dem unser Vater im Himmel reden kann und wir ihn hören... Und einen guten gesegneten Wochenbeginn!

6th of October
With the pictures above you´re able to participate in a new little milestone for Puschels life. For sure she has to be carefull alltimes. But as you know from the last news, she is allowed to give so much pressure to her right leg how it is possible in relation to her pain. Puschel is very happy for these authorization , because it will give her more sureness for all activities. We know that the old stability in her pelvis never will come back. But may be anytime she will be able to walk without her crutches...

She is able to do some things in the day. So she is getting much more stability. It´s normal that she needs some breaks per day in her bed and anytime painkillers. But only by aktivities her muscles are able to become stronger.

So we will not end to say thanks to our Lord for all good thinks what He gave us!
He gave us a lot of good thinks to by giving you all beside us! So alltimes we can thank Him for that. Some of you Puschel got to know by this page and prayer and the closeness in faith. Is it not a miracle of His family in our world??
So many thank to you all to for all signs of these closeness! May God bless you so much!

 

3th of October
With the pictures above you´re able to participate in a new little milestone for Puschels life. For sure she has to be carefull alltimes. But as you know from the last news, she is allowed to give so much pressure to her right leg how it is possible in relation to her pain. Puschel is very happy for these authorization , because it will give her more sureness for all activities. We know that the old stability in her pelvis  never will come back. But may be anytime she will be able to walk without her crutches...
So we will not end to say thanks to our Lord for all good thinks what He gave us!
He gave us a lot of good thinks to by giving you all beside us! So alltimes we can thank Him for that. Some of you Puschel got to know by this page and prayer and the closeness in faith. Is it not a miracle of His family in our world??
So many thank to you all to for all signs of these closeness! May God bless you so much!

30th of Sept.
We returned home safely. We will show you tomorrow some pictures we already took while we were back home again. Here are some from the time in the south of Germany from last week. She was able to see some of her friends and old places where she was where she stayed before she went to Sweden and El Salvador. We also went to a Rehabalatationcenter to take a look at. Where Puschel can go for rehabilitation- thats a question for the next time.

The doctor who operated on Puschel a year ago gave her green light for using her leg as much as she can with pain. That means that her bones are stable now and grow together well. Thats an other milestone we passed now. We thank God for his healing hand and pray for wisdome about how far Puschel can steep on her leg.

Silas- my brother has his birthday today. Since we have a hard time getting in contact with him, I want to send him greetings that way and Gods rich blessings for his life. For those who do not know- Silas is in Ethiopian for the next year. If anybody likes to send him greetings (I know he would be happy and encouraged by it) his address is silas@holmer.de and if you like to see some pictures just check his web side www.silas.holmer.info  Feel free to support him in prayer, emails or financial. Thank you.

22th of Sept.
Puschel at the wedding of her friends…!
We want to give you the chance to take part at the celebration. We also want to send a Hello to Puschel’s grandpa who is at a mission trip at Kyrgisien. He is teaching Preachers and Pastors. We are still very joyful and filled about the results of the last tests from last week at the hospital. We can not thank Him enough for His goodness and faithfulness. You were able to participate and pray with us when we/Puschel had a hard time. Now you can thank with us that she is doing so well.

Sure there is still a reason to be careful! Puschel should not risk a new fracture at her “fibula in her pelvis”. She also still needs lots of pain medication. And only our Lord knows if the cancer cells are totally gone. But at this moment she is able to enjoy her vacation in the south of Germany. (Stuttgart) Therefore we are happy to show you some more pictures in the next couple of days.

 

19th of Sept.

We want to let you know the aktivities at these time. You can see, that Puschel is able to do so different things. You know that Puschel wanted to celebrate a wedding with one of her friends in south of Germany.
Cause the things in the hospital in Berlin were going faster than we thought, we could go into the south earlier. We will show you some things by pictures. They can show you that Puschel is able to be more aktiv than before. Certainly she needs some break at a normal day, and she needs a lot of pain killers to do all things.
But with all these aids Puschel can participate in the normel live arround. You can see it also by the pictures above. For us all it is a great gift from our God.
Sometimes Puschel meets people who were praying for her all the time and are glad now to see her so good (with so nice curlys, with a great smile in her face...). It is encouraging for us to get some messages from  you again and again.

Thank you for your prayer! Thank you for your loyalty. God bless you all. We will keep you informed.

16th of Sept.

The news from today:
The results of the tests today are comlpete very good. Good for Puschel, good for us. The results are “negative”, what means positive...you understand?
The doctors didn´t found any cells of cancer there! Praise the Lord! We can be very thankfull to our Lord. Thank you for thanking with us! Thank you for praying for us. God bless you so much! We have a great father in heaven!
At the next time we will keep you informed. But now we´re on the way to south of Germany to be in a wedding celebration of a friend of Puschel.

Dear friends;
if you want to find some pictures what about you read in the text, you should search these pictures on the page of the monthly pictures under “Fotos”. You have here the link for this monthly pcture page:

God will make a way,
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way, He will make a way.

By a roadway in the wilderness, He'll lead me
And rivers in the desert will I see
Heaven and earth will fade
But His Word will still remain
He will do something new today.

God will make a way,
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way, He will make a way

Words and music by Don Moen

A painting froPuschel - our church buliding in Bülow (from 1236)

Puschels passion: http://www.mfh-elsalvador.org

Diary 2008

Above all powers,
Above all powers, above all kings
Above all nature and all created things
Above all wisdom and all the ways of man
You were here before the world began

Above all kingdoms, above all thrones
Above all wonders the world has ever known
Above all wealth and treasures of the earth
There's no way to measure what you're worth

Crucified
Laid behind a stone
You lived to die
Rejected and alone
Like a rose
Trampled on the ground
You took the fall
And thought of me
Above all