Joel's Journey: a little gift......

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

a little gift......

Our rosebushes have started doing well again, all the rain and a little cooler and I know I have mentioned this "particular" rosebush before on two occasions but I have to tell about it once again. Some friends gave it to us around March after Joel went to live in heaven in Jan. 07, in his honor, we planted it and this is the 3rd time it has had buds on it. It is just a stick of a bush and looks like a "Y." Now,can you believe that EVERYTIME it has always and only had TWO buds on it. On one occasion both did not bloom and I think I remember posting about that. But just the other day I was checking out all the rose bushes and when I saw this rose bush and the two buds only, it caught me by surprise, I smiled in my heart and it seems it just has to a special gift from the Lord. I can not say I'm all in to the "sign" thing but this is unusual and happily so! I hope the friends that gave it to us read this and see what an unusual blessing this "little" rose
bush has been. I am anxious or looking forward to what happens, if they both bloom or what.......

Dave and Kate are coming over for dinner this evening, we have a "presentation" to make to him.....I'll show you later...hehehe!!!!

2 comments:

The Cole Family said...: God is speaking to you through his creation. When we buried the little baby we lost, we planted 3 tulip bulbs at his grave. That next spring, 9 tulip blooms came up. That was neat for me because God was showing me that that little baby really was my 9th child. From 3 bulbs (representing me, Bob and God) came nine blooms (our 9 children). It really spoke to me. I think God delights in doing things like that.

Cindy; August 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM
j said...: pretty pic. Hey come check out my latest posts involving you. I thought I would lift your spirits by having you participate in a little game I had to participate in!!!
Jessica; August 19, 2009 at 6:59 PM

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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.