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Will Update
3.9.09 Will has a new looking foot! After spending summer in a cast he finally is back in shoes! The doc is pleased with the results and now we wait to see what the body will do. There is a possiblity the body will try to go back the way it was, which is not a postitive thing. I'd ask you prayer on this. Right now Will is suffering the muscular results of being in a cast for nearly 3 months in that his right leg muscles are pretty much shot and the time spent in his walking cast caused some issues with his left leg, which we are told is normal but not fun for him. He is already pushing the right leg with HIT training to get it back in shape so he will be ready to roll for wrestling. We go back to Shrine in 3 months for a check up and then start planning for foot number 2.
I'll update as we get results after. Thanks for keeping Will in your prayers!
Digging in at McMinneville 08. He got a deal fill all the sandbags (30) and he could use half for his position. The joyous bond of a soldier and his e-tool!
Wilhelm Lehmann at McMinnville June 08 Mg42 gunner with "Deutschland" and as a GI in 06.
See Wilhelm Lehmann in action with Deutschland
William Report
Thanks to all of you who pray for William and thanks for letting me know that you are in agreement with me on this! I want to say thanks to you all for putting him in your family and church prayer groups.
Will is now 15. He is starting his sophmore. Plans for 2009-10 include doing well in school, learning to weld, music, wrestling, and working with peer athletes using HIT (High Intenstity Training) to improve their performance.
We'll keep on our special PE program that takes us to the local gym to work his legs in specific HIT (High Intensity Training) routines. This has made very positive results in the last year so we want to stay with it. So the shop is closed every day from around 1430 till around 1630. Our goal is to provide Will life choices that are not limited by his physical condition. Will had a really positive experience at the state music camp and is now also looking at a career in teaching music. As you recall he was previously looking at a career as a male nurse. Both careers have a potential military aspect and career, so we will fight his leg problems till we can get him through an military PT test.
Pray Will grows in the love and knowledge of God, and how to walk that God walk and talk that God talk.
What's Wrong with William?
Will has a neurological disability called Spastic Paraparisis (that could be misspelled) that looks a lot like Cerebral Palsy. There is nothing medically that can be done to fix this totally. Will started to manifest this disability when he was about 4. Till he was in the 5th grade he was the target of every bully in school and was teased by all. On a visit to the Shrine Hospital the doc suggested he take a martial art to stretch. In our town there was two choices. The Taekwando Class and the guy at the athletic club. The Taekwando was just too ridged and was going to set Will up for disaster. I had noticed the slightly built older guy doing what looked like the Kung Fu art off that classic TV show. One day he approached me about my bike and in our discussion we talked God talk and identified each other as brothers. I decided to see if he would take Will on. Ross said he'd be honored to take on a student with a disability. Ross has several Vietnam War related injuries, one being near total loss of hearing. So they began. It has been over five years and three school suspensions. Will still takes some verbal abuse but few dare touch him anymore.
With power can come love and respect. I don't mean from others I mean from you to others. Let's look at Jesus. He was the most powerful being on Earth at the time of his trial and crucifixion, yet he did not wield that power in a selfish way. Why? With his power I believe came knowledge and strength to put away himself and look at the overall God mission of salvation. Though tested and buffeted he stood strong, unto death. His faith in the God he knew as father was total. Either because he knew in his being who he was - God-Man or that he totally believed the word written about him in the scriptures; it matters not as he became the lamb that atoned for us all. He did not bring down the army of angels and smash his enemies, he could have.
In our lives mostly we fear people who we perceive as threats. Fear will overwhelm love. When you are able to stand up to the guy that pushed you around you can choose to say, "Hey man, fighting about this is not the right choice." Will once put a kid who tied to punch him into an armbar, he could have really hurt the kid and rightly so the kid tried to sucker punch him. But he told him, "You can stop now and walk away or we can fight and I'll kick your ass." The kid chose to walk. I doubt the mystery of mercy was at all clear to him, maybe some day.
Here is Will doing his Festival of Nations display at school. He got into the Red Army at McMinneville 06, fighting with them in two battles. Thanks Jason for the help on the display! Take your kid out and do something, so much better than TV and games (not that he isn't into that as well) but reenacting is serious level work and play.
Pray for Our Armed Forces!
All of you who have been on the site know I have a heart for the military. I encourage you to pray for the armed forces in action and peace. Pray for their families at home. Remember those who minister to them in the field. Pray that those who are believers will walk the walk and talk the talk "so that all men may know you are my followers."
. Prayer Requests!
God's Word tells believers that if two or more are gathered together in His name he is there with them and that He will hear their prayers. Further more He tells us that prayers offered in agreement between believers are heard and if in His will they will be answered in the way they are asked. In the prayer known as "The Lord's Prayer" Jesus tells us to ask for our daily bread (or what we need.) Believers are told to ask so that it can be given so that the Father can be glorified. While in the time of Christ and the New Testament Church founders none foresaw cyber community, with the exception of the Lord. Nowadays believers all over the world are linked in real time to be able to pray for the same issues.
I'm asking believers to agree with me in prayer on the following areas:
Never changing request!
Pray that every day I will not put Soldat FHQ in front of God and His Word nor my family or people.
William
Till the day he is healed. Pray for the health and healing of my son William Cyrus Lee. He is a 15 year old child of God who has a disorder that cause him to have a spastic walk and to often fall. His upper body is everything a boy could want in strength and ability but it is attached to his legs which cause him pain and suffering each day. Everyday he has to look at the other boys who run free. William has "heart" and an Airborne attitude that never quits.
Kira
My daughter Kira is 19, and on her way to her Sophomore year at Montana State University. Kira will be first Chair 2nd Violin this year and is working with the conductor to "bow" all the string pieces this year and will begin conducting classes. She is in a good church at school and has a core of friends who are good kids. Kira works, studies, or practices about 14 - 18 hours a day. She is 100%, but every teen needs prayer to continue to make wise choices in and for life. Pray for her mom as the separation is hard on her.
Anna
My daughter Anna is 9. She is a 100% at the 4th grade! She got to go to the zoo in Seattle and the aquarium in Newport, did a basketball camp so her summer was great! ight now she is torn between a career as an astronaut, astronomer or archeologist, but pink clothing is very important as is riding to school in the Kooblekar.
Anna helped me run the Mg42 during the car show where she blasted away duing cruise night and then we did scholarship fund raiser during the Saturday show letting folks shoot for a donation.
William's Jacket that Kevin painted.
Soldat FHQ is a Christian owned business. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and one way to salvation and eternal life. I believe that "work" is the portal by which God provides for the needs of the believer who then is scripture bound to provide funds to support work in the kingdom through tithe and offerings. I believe that the time is short and the harvest is ripe; workers must be sent. He who is the King of the Universe and "owns the cattle on a thousand hills" is not taxed to provide for His children. Only His children are taxed to receive, and then give.
"Cyrus, I don't believe in all Jesus stuff!"
OK, but you are a partner with me in the whole operation. Nothing is based on luck, you can and will be blessed in some way in spite of yourself as part of your money goes to make a difference in the work of the kingdom. You'll know what happened here on earth when you reach your final destination in eternity. My prayer for you is that you are viewing eternity from the right side of the house!
Pray for FamLee that we will all "seek first the kingdom of God."