It has been an interesting 24 hours… Last night Jennifer began feeling upset in the stomach. Her pain quickly and progressively worsened and by 330am she was feeling bad enough to call an ambulance. In typical Jennifer style she decided to tough it out and wait till this morning to go to her family doctor, who told her to go right to the ER. A few hours later she was taken in to surgery for an emergency appendectomy. I just left the hospital an hour ago to come home and put the kids to bed. They’ve been at her sister, Jannell’s, all day. Jennifer is recovering as expected but is in quite a bit of pain. She’ll probably come home tomorrow and have to take it easy for a few days.

As I sat waiting for Jennifer to come out of surgery I thought about how all of the seemingly important stuff becomes unimportant at times like these. Appendectomies are the second most common surgeries in the USA but I still had that sinking “what if this is the last time I ever see her” feeling when they wheeled Jennifer’s hospital bed out of the ER and away from me.

Over the past few months, as we’ve gotten a little more back into the grove of touring and making records and releasing radio singles, I’ve found myself thinking about my business more than I would like. I know it comes with the territory a bit and I know the Lord has grace for that, but today has been a good reminder of how fast things can change and how small the small stuff really is. The stuff my Pa Paw tells me not to sweat. Most of all I was so thankful for all of you, for your kind messages and that Jennifer and I had friends and family who were praying for us and holding us up.

Unfortunately, this means we won’t be on a flight to Dallas tomorrow to play in Dennison tomorrow night and Allen on Sunday. Hopefully those concerts will get rescheduled soon!

Thanks and blessings – Jeromy