From Majestic Mount Rainier in Tacoma, Washington.

Dear Friends, 

 

This is an update from Tacoma, Washington, where I was weak and hungry therefore sleepy and tired. Like a hamster in a cage my years were slipping away so fast running faster and faster but going “Nowhere.”

I was getting frustrated for a month in Tacoma looking for housing until the “Rayburn factor” calmly said to Nathaniel, what about the new apartments that they are just finishing building on 6th Avenue Tacoma?

We went immediately and found exactly what “the Doctor ordered.” A new, two rooms, plenty of light only ten steps from the elevator on the fifth floor, only 6 minutes from the Church, 7 minutes from Nathaniel, 8 minutes from Caleb and 2 minutes from my Hospital and near to several local restaurants. This building was built with ADA American Disability Act in mind.

 

From the rooftop I can see ALL that Tacoma has to offer in a 360 degrees angle that includes Majestic Mount Reiner in all its splendor sitting like an eagle in a nest over the Tacoma valley.  I can also see the Ocean from the roof.

 

When my container arrived, the church provided a huge U-Haul Truck and twelve loving members to unload the container into the truck in less than one hours and we drove to my apartment where they unloaded it in two hours into the apartment.

 

I FELT WARMLY WELCOME AND CELEBRATED. AS OPPOSED TO JUST BEING TOLERATED.

 

The beauty of my move is that I am not only near my sons Nathaniel and Caleb, but I will be in a church where I spoke long before Nathaniel was born and where I am now under his care in that very church.

 

A beautiful family and their four children have sort of “Adopted” me from the very start. Since then. Elisabeth and Colin are looking after me as if I was their own family. Tuesday and Friday I eat for certain and have food for the night and the next day freshly made and in Tupperware. So, now I can dare to say that I am feeling more optimistic about eating, resting properly and feeling stronger.

 

Tomorrow Nathaniel is taking me for another battery of tests at the Hospital.

Wednesday is the big day for ultrasound and other tests.

Nathaniel is taking off to the Airport on a trip for his vacation the same day.

But the James’ are already planning to ask people to take me to the hospital.

 

The last month has been a time of testing and tribulation with a great portion of unspeakable humiliation. Please pray that I might endure with joy the humility which God did not spared his own Son.

 

Please pray for the house in Georgia soon to be repaired, painted, and carpeted in order to be sold or rented as the Lord leads.

Please pray that Nathaniel and Caleb’s household might adjust to my presence and find me as joyful as I find them in comfort and joy.

Pray that I might be a blessing to this beautiful body of believers that I have grown to love and admire so much.

 

My doctor has given me signs of hope so that I am looking forward to seeing the new dimensions of God’s love in Jesus which are yet to be revealed on my behalf. Needless to say, our Lord has been, as expected. “Precious” to his old and sick servant.

 

God is using his Saints to show me his “Compassion” and his “Mercy.”

Please take compassion as “one who suffers with me.”

And take mercy “as one who takes the journey with me.”

 

Thank you, my beloved partners, in this short pilgrimage on this earth.

 

Your Gerry with a “G”.

Gerry Gutierrez.