Laynes' Line

  April, 2021   Psalm 27:13   I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.   Dear Praying Friends,      In the midst of so much confusion and turmoil it is such a blessing to see the goodness of the Lord to me! We are still in yellow, but the cases continue. We were on all-stop red just before Easter. Suddenly, a day before spring vacation the color changed to green, so everyone ran for the beach. There are those who believe it was political because now we are back in yellow. It seems as though this world cannot figure this out.      COVID claimed another precious soul this past week in the death of a fellow missionary here. It seems like we go for a period of time and hear nothing and then we hear of several close to us. We are taking every precaution and are keeping in touch with the deaf through video chats. Most of our deaf have gone back to work or have be...

  Dear Praying Friends,      Praise the Lord the church is open again, even if still limited by the government. Each time the services are started again, we start at a reduced attendance and with limited time. For the past year the church has had about five services. That is not very good for trying to build a congregation. The limits are no children under 18 or adults over 59 and the services are mandated to be very short in time. Those who are in the age group have been faithful to attend, but the on again, off again has taken a toll.      The deaf who have been sick are better and as far as we know, just the one family has been certified to have had COVID.  They are well and we pray soon that the epidemic will begin to slack off. We are still under a mask mandate and are just below the red level. There are still quite a few folks who think this is a big game. Our city is enormous and so even a relatively large number is still not a big per...

January 27, 2021     Psalm 146 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise the Lord , O my soul. 2  While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.   Dear Praying Friends,        For more than 70 years God has taken care of Gary and protected him even when he was not aware of it. We have additional good news to share. If you follow the blog, you know that the doctor took him off of insulin on Christmas eve. He is now on Invokana with the target in sight of getting off ALL medications. He has lost 35 pounds and has no desire to stop now. All of his health issues are good. On Saturday he had his first blood checkup after stopping all insulin. Everything was normal except his HA1C which was 5.33 (wonderful). The doctor had thought it might be about 8 since he had been so high. Praise ye the Lord! Now we are talking about getting down in weight enough to stop all medication.    ...

      I have wonderful news that I received Christmas Eve. I am totally off of insulin.My doctor here has been lowering my doses daily until he finally said, "Don't inject anything." Wonderful. I have not minded the injections, as man y times I did not feel anything. I am so thankful that insulin was available when I needed it. My body has obviously started producing enough insulin again to handle my daily needs. My diet has changed little as we already had a good diet. I am just a little more conscious of what foods have hidden within them.      Our request is primarily to pray for Pedro and his wife. They both have Covid, but at least they appear to be lighter cases. All of the state is completely shut down except the very most necessary and then only during daytime hours through January 10th. At that time they will see how progress is going before making any other announcements. Since March we have been more in the red zone than any other color...

                                                                 November 18, 2020  Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Dear Praying Friends,      The worst is over and I am on my way to a changed, but good life. The doctor checked me after the hospital stay was thrilled at the results. The kidney damage is gone, my eyes have been thoroughly checked by an ophthalmologist who could see NO damage from diabetes, and my liver and pancreas are completely clear. The doctors now agree that it was a quick, recent crash because there is no permanent damage that would normally happen with an extended period of attack. Only God could have protected me through such a serious increase witho...