Joel's Journey: Major Provision !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Major Provision !!!!!!!!!!!!

The Lord brought the jobs, the Lord gave them the strength and abilities to work, the Lord gave them the discipline to save and be able to buy the truck out right...... the Lord has blessed the guys with this new/used truck!!!!! An 06 Ford 350 Dually, Diesel, with around 50,000 miles on it! They are so very grateful, the small children are a little out of control, but thats ok!!!! He is faithful!!!!! I guess only a grieving mommy and maybe a sister would have thoughts and sadness about trading our other truck in, it was a Joel truck, he went to get it with the boys in Dec.06, and we have a picture of him in it, he was so happy. I will get over it of course, just one more thing to let go of. I am excited though and thanking the Lord for blessing my men with this wonderful gift from above!!!!

Now we have had excitement with that, its time to get to work.....butchering the chickens! We only have 25 or so, it will not take too long. The guys will head back to Watonga in the morning, this job was way longer than anticipated but certainly a means of provision and we are thankful. Lord willing they will be back Sat. late.

I pray your hearts are encouraged to the truth that God is faithful!!!!

Cindy

6 comments:

Cheryl said...: Wow, you did surprise me!!! I guess that happened this afternoon?
Cheryl; June 19, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...: That is so cool! I can only imagine the excitement at your house. :-)

Sarah; June 19, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Danielle said...: Praise God for providing your family with the GREAT truck!! Looks SOO nice! Can't wait to ride in it! ;); June 19, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Praise God!

He is so good to you in a time of doubt and faltering faith! What a blessing for your family.
Blessings,
Michelle; June 19, 2008 at 9:11 PM
The Cole Family said...: Yea Cindy! Answered prayer!; June 20, 2008 at 5:02 AM
LJR said...: Oh I am so happy for you guys! That is a beautiful truck, and I know how badly you needed something dependable. God heard your prayers and answered it with a big red truck! What a blessing.

I pray it provides you with many safe travels.

Lori; June 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.