The latest news is that Darren's bone marrow transplant has been delayed until the end of November. Its slightly confusing as to why this is happening, but hopefully the next appointment on Wednesday in Bristol will clear things up.
In the meantime, he is living in the church's flat, while going to the hospital for daily check-ups, blood tests etc and is being well looked after by a committed posse of members from the church.
The flat (unfurnished just before he arrived) has now been filled with furniture including bed, 2 sofas, tv, microwave, tables.. the church's response to his need has been totally amazing.
Understandably, his biggest ongoing worry is his health and the spectre of the oncoming transplant. This costs him a lot of emotional energy and sleep.
We don't see eachother as often as (perhaps) we should. And when we do spend time together, its difficult to raise his sights above these immediate things.
Hardly surprising i know, but its often when we look to the small things that are going ok - things where we can clearly see God at work - that we gain the courage to believe that He (God) is somehow in control of everything else, however hard that is to imagine.
The next few months are going to be very tough for Darren. His prognosis is not amazingly good and he has a lot of personal challenges to face, so he needs all the prayer support that we can possibly manage.
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