I reluctantly and joyfully stepped into my Prayer Room today and visited with all of the mothers and children who are suffering. I say reluctantly because it hurts my heart to listen to their pain and suffering but joyfully because it is my honor to lift them up to our Father and to get to know them all, they are amazing people.
Sean… wow, what an amazing little boy. He is 6, the same age as my Superman and so full of life! He loves legos and can make some pretty great things with them. He seems to be dealing with living in a hospital really well and the nurses all appear and sound like a wonderful blessing. You can feel the love and adoration that these parents have for their son. Today they have been there for 1 year, he was admitted Aug. 6 of 2006. Please pray that he will continue to improve and be able to go home this weekend. I don’t know if it is a long term or short term stay.
Ethan… he turned eight months yesterday. He is scheduled for a MRI today at 2:30 and is not able to eat anything all morning, which as you can imagine is not going to be a pleasant experience. His mother asks that we pray that everything on the MRI will look good, that Ethan will do good with not being able to eat and that there is NO WHITE CELLS in his spinal fluid.
Noah… he is about to have a birthday! He is still struggling with a lot of health issues and is need of prayers. Developmenatlly he is doing better, praise the Lord. Some of the main goals that they have for him are that he would learn to change positions (right now he sits if we put him in a sit, but can’t get to a sit, roll over, etc.), learn to move (crawl, scoot, whatever), and learn to really play with toys. Go listen to their grocery store experience with Noah and the balls :0).
Heather… she isn’t feeling well and is scheduled for an MRI today so be in prayer for her. Though she is suffering you can hear her faith loud and clear and she is encouraging. Here is her prayer request… not just for the swelling to NOT to be there, but that the tumor is completely gone, radiated, cursed at the root, stomped on, chemically and surgically altered etc…. nothing there but tumor bed.
Nicole… she has not updated in a while so I pray that all is okay. Just pray for her to be strong and to hide in the shadow of His wings, that God would work in her and through her, and that her son will be given continual strength as he experiences all of the emotions that come with this difficult time.
Hannah’s family… oh, how my heart bleeds for this mother’s pain of loosing her little Monkey. It is so painful to hear her heart cry out and I pray deeply that God would comfort her and guide her through this emensly hard time. You must visit her, listen to her heart, listen to her struggles, her victories, get to know Lily and Hannah. I find it so amazing that Hannah is still very much alive in their life. You will be very blessed to visit this family. Set out a block of time and cry, laugh and ponder with this mother. Listen… I’m very very sad and lonely, missing my Monkey in a way I never thought humanly possible. And yet, as sad as I am, I worry I’m blocking my feelings; that maybe in the back of my mind I’ve convinced myself Hannah is just off somewhere and she’ll be returning soon. I worry the gut-wrenching agony of the past two weeks will return and I’ll be incapacitated with grief worse than before. Have I actually acknowledged to myself Hannah is gone? Have I let myself she is never coming back and that I have to live the rest of my life wondering–what Han would have looked like as an adult, what would she have done for a career (other than Irish step dancing and hairdressing), would she have had children–about Hannah’s lost future?
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