Another
emergency prayer request: Thanks for riding this roller coaster with
us!
We hadn't had news of Danny all day and there was no visit at noon. At first we thought that was good, but as the afternoon wore on and there was no visit nor report we realized that it was probably because the doctor was too busy. Well, that second assumption was true....Danny and another baby, Armandito, have literally kept her running all morning! The Dr. came out a few minutes ago to so that Danny is doing very poorly. He started a wacked out arrhythmia at 9:00 this morning and his heart hasn't had a normal rhythm since. The Dr. shocked him once, upped his meds, added another med and he is barely responding to the medication...which means his heart is tiring out. She expected him to go into cardiac arrest, but she was able to pull him out of it before he did. The crash cart is back next to his bed and he is lying on the tablet they use when doing CPR just in case they need it! We re-expressed our desire to be present if Jesus calls him home!
Here's a new analogy for today: when we get good news I tell myself to not get excited because you know that it can change at any moment in time! But, yesterday I decided to fully rejoice in any good news because it is still good news! Although you tell yourself the bad news can come you really believe that the good news is the start of a string of good news.
So, here's the analogy: it's like blowing a bubble outside....you so enjoy that bubble's beauty, how it floats through the air, the colors that it reflects off the sun, how you can even see the clouds in the bubble. The whole time you are enjoying that bubble you know it is going to burst, but when it does pop you are disappointed! That is exactly how we are feeling right now! A few weeks ago when the kids came to visit, we blew bubbles out in front of the hospital. One of the bubbles was starting to go higher than the others...we all started cheering it on! It reached the first floor, then the second, looked like it was going to crash into the building, but pulled away and kept going up....another close encounter with the third floor windows and another tight escape....that bubble flew higher than the five story hospital! Even though that bubble blew out of sight, had it popped we would have been so disappointed, like happened with hundreds of others afternoon. Yesterday we enjoyed the bubbles of good news and that bubble has popped! Today we are looking at a smaller bubble and hoping with our entire being that it doesn't pop....but knowing that it is much more likely that it will pop than that it will simply disappear into the horizon.
Thank you for sustaining Danny, us and our family in your prayers! May God's perfect will be done! I so hope that my will is His will, but I KNOW that His will is good! So, may HIS will be done!
Interestingly, the woman that has become my best friend in cardio, Carla, is suffering. Her one year old son, Armandito, is doing very poorly. During this last month we have comforted each other when one of us has been sad or struggling, but right now we are both walking through the valley of the shadow of death! Please pray for her and her son, too!
We will be sitting on our metal yellow bench and waiting....waiting on the Lord! Good thing that He promises that those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength because I really need some of that right now!
P.S. Ditto the post below regarding "Blessed Be the Lord!"
We hadn't had news of Danny all day and there was no visit at noon. At first we thought that was good, but as the afternoon wore on and there was no visit nor report we realized that it was probably because the doctor was too busy. Well, that second assumption was true....Danny and another baby, Armandito, have literally kept her running all morning! The Dr. came out a few minutes ago to so that Danny is doing very poorly. He started a wacked out arrhythmia at 9:00 this morning and his heart hasn't had a normal rhythm since. The Dr. shocked him once, upped his meds, added another med and he is barely responding to the medication...which means his heart is tiring out. She expected him to go into cardiac arrest, but she was able to pull him out of it before he did. The crash cart is back next to his bed and he is lying on the tablet they use when doing CPR just in case they need it! We re-expressed our desire to be present if Jesus calls him home!
Here's a new analogy for today: when we get good news I tell myself to not get excited because you know that it can change at any moment in time! But, yesterday I decided to fully rejoice in any good news because it is still good news! Although you tell yourself the bad news can come you really believe that the good news is the start of a string of good news.
So, here's the analogy: it's like blowing a bubble outside....you so enjoy that bubble's beauty, how it floats through the air, the colors that it reflects off the sun, how you can even see the clouds in the bubble. The whole time you are enjoying that bubble you know it is going to burst, but when it does pop you are disappointed! That is exactly how we are feeling right now! A few weeks ago when the kids came to visit, we blew bubbles out in front of the hospital. One of the bubbles was starting to go higher than the others...we all started cheering it on! It reached the first floor, then the second, looked like it was going to crash into the building, but pulled away and kept going up....another close encounter with the third floor windows and another tight escape....that bubble flew higher than the five story hospital! Even though that bubble blew out of sight, had it popped we would have been so disappointed, like happened with hundreds of others afternoon. Yesterday we enjoyed the bubbles of good news and that bubble has popped! Today we are looking at a smaller bubble and hoping with our entire being that it doesn't pop....but knowing that it is much more likely that it will pop than that it will simply disappear into the horizon.
Thank you for sustaining Danny, us and our family in your prayers! May God's perfect will be done! I so hope that my will is His will, but I KNOW that His will is good! So, may HIS will be done!
Interestingly, the woman that has become my best friend in cardio, Carla, is suffering. Her one year old son, Armandito, is doing very poorly. During this last month we have comforted each other when one of us has been sad or struggling, but right now we are both walking through the valley of the shadow of death! Please pray for her and her son, too!
We will be sitting on our metal yellow bench and waiting....waiting on the Lord! Good thing that He promises that those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength because I really need some of that right now!
P.S. Ditto the post below regarding "Blessed Be the Lord!"
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