Yesterday, I met a lady standing at the elevator with her eyes watering up and a slight tremble in her appearance.  As we got on the elevator together, I asked her, “Are you alright?”

She broke down explaining that a family member had just been diagnosed with cancer, that she would now be responsible for all the property issues, and she had just been told she would need heart valve replacement surgery herself.

We discussed that we have been told one day at a time, and I said sometimes that may be to much, then it is down to the hour or even just the next ten minutes.

I told her I had been through two valve replacements and that she was going to be alright.  She thanked me and said God knows I needed to hear that now.

I held up my hand and she gave me a knuckle bump as we went our separate ways.

We never exchanged names, but I am asking Brethren to pray for her and all of us as we walk through life's tribulations together.

INCOMING SALVO…REJOICING IN TRIBULATIONS…1 DEC. A.D. 2022