Some Updates

Thank you to all those who pray everyday and have been kind enough to add some very special people to their prayer life. I figured it is important to update a few things. I enjoy this blog so much and though I am not an everyday poster, I love that people from all over the globe can get information and take concerns and rejoicing to the Lord just because we can connect this way.

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Sam has not updated us on a current CT yet and I will let you know when he does. He sent me a couple of updated pictures, so I feel really happy posting this recent picture of he and Anne on their vacation in Florida.



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Just before Christmas, I posted about my aunt's brother-in-law. At first a suspected stroke left him acting strangely and upon closer observation, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. A less than savory operation left him weak and not doing well and a fall this weekend has further impeded any progress. The doctors told my aunt's sister, Linda that no more radiation would be administered and advised there is nothing else they can do. Linda is plucky and she advised that the Master Healer can do ALOT. So, we continue to lift Bob and his family up as they go through a terribly difficult time.

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I would also implore folks to pray for this family. Their little girl Ayla has been diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eye. It is quite amazing the community of adoptive parents that rally around one another, pray and support each other, being constant sources of encouragement. My prayer is that Ayla will feel the healing touch of Jesus and that her family will be sustained as they help her heal. The Lord's plan is perfect - we don't have to know one another to intercede for one another.
Ayla

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Personally, we are settling into 2008. The change into a new year usually throws me, this year is no different. I am a creature of habit, so I approach with great caution. My hope for this year is to simplify. Simplify, simplify, simplify. I talked with my aunt last night and we talked about how necessary miracles are...we see them everyday. We need some really big ones to offset the smaller ones, we needn't be so concerned with ourselves. So many need us to be there for them. I pray I teach my children to love on others, I believe it may be a miracle in and of itself to look outside our own circumstance and hold up a neighbor. I remember when Sam was first sick, I didn't know what to "do", so I wrote a note, I prayed and I took a particularly smiley picture of Emily and sent it to him. I recently pulled out his response and the joy that picture brought him. It's not the big things, it's the heart things...the miracle things, that make each day what it is.

Hannah shows us this more often now!