Faith

My husband Andre has been very sick for several months. He has gotten weaker and weaker to the point of pretty much bedridden. It has been very difficult to watch the man I so deeply love disintegrate right before my eyes. 

All of this culminated into major surgery yesterday. After the surgery I spoke to the surgeon. The news devastated me because the extent of damage was much worse and recovery is much longer than originally anticipated. 

I wrote the following message to our family about it all. After sending the message to everyone and saying a prayer, his condition improved greatly. I believe in faith in God and the power of prayer. Here is what I wrote.

Faith

By Andrea Tadpole-Broussard 

4/2/24

I wish I could tell you I am ok, but I am not. I have a million details running through my head right now. How am I going to do this? How am I going to do that? What about medical equipment, etc., ad nauseum. 

I always choose a word of intention for the week, one word to focus on all week. My word this week was FAITH. 

Right now, I do not feel like I have much faith. Yet, all God needs is something even as tiny as a cell in my body. I have that. My whole life, when all is falling down around me and it looks hopeless, I take that tiny little cell of faith and focus on Jesus.

It is times like these that God shows His greatest mercy and love. If God can part the Red Sea, if Jesus can heal a woman who merely touched His robe in a crowd, if He can heal a paralyzed man lowered in from a roof or make a blind man see; then He can heal Andre. 

Just please pray that God gives me and Andre strength to get through the days ahead. 

Please ask God to protect my heart from any anger thrown my way. I will not lie. My heart is breaking, and I am scared. 

Yet, in the midst of it all, one little song still trips through my head:

Jesus loves me this, I know...

And that's all I need to know.

I love each of you very much!!