Crossing Your Fingers

Monday, February 27, Jerry will have another peripheral blood smear. It will tell us how much the transplant has grafted and how many of Jerry's cells are his and how many belong to his donor. Last time 38% of the cells were still Jerry's.We have been praying that the donor's cells have continued to grow and are destroying the rest of Jerry's cells.

The nurse practitioner said as she was leaving the room today, "Let's keep our fingers crossed."  Really crossing your fingers is an old superstition. It was suppose to have originated before Christ. It was a sign of luck or making a wish.  A wish made on a cross was a way of securing the wish until it was fulfilled.

It originally took two people. They  would cross their index fingers one on top of each other forming a cross. One person would make a wish and the other person would support their wish. It has changed through the years. Instead of friends crossing fingers, one crosses their own fingers, and now people say, "Keep your fingers crossed."

We're not going to ask you to cross your fingers for good results. We have something better than that. We have prayer which we know is better than all the luck in the world. So we are asking that you pray, pray, and pray some more.

We love you!

II Corinthians 1:11

Ye also helping together by prayer for us,

that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons

 thanks may be given by many on our behalf.