Hi All,
Thank you for the support, and thank you for what you've done for me.
It's funny, but over the past few weeks I've seen the dual truths of " In the world you will have tribulation" AND "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life" following on each others heels again and again. This has been yet another example.
Since Saturday night of last week, much of my time has been spent in prayer and visiting of one of the families of our church. They are a very young couple, newly-weds who have just had their first child.
A few days after they took their newborn son home, and just before dad was scheduled to go TDY for HALO training, his bilurubin levels shot through the roof, skyrocketing to 45, which brought on seizures. That evening I rushed to the hospital to meet with and pray for the parents, preparing for the worst, and praying for mercy. I read Psalm 61:1-4 with them, and prayed with them for a while, pleading with God to spare and heal this tiny child - to be merciful yet again. That prayer was indeed answered and since that time, his bilirubin levels returned to normal, he came off sedation, off the ventilator, and is now awake and alert. It was a real testimony to both those new parents, their own parents who had rushed up to be with them, and a great reminder to me as well. There is of course still great concern about how this might have affected little "Blue's" brain, but his recovery has been nothing less than miraculous.
I share that, not only because I'd appreciate it if you would pray for Blue (yep that's really his name, this is the south you know) but also because that kind of thing has happened more times than I can count over the past few months.
So thank you all for you part in being some of those rays of light that break when things seemed darkest.
Now, I must away to bed. I really only got up to change a diaper... Funny how the net beckons.
