Joel's Journey: hows your wednesday???

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

hows your wednesday???

Hows your Wednesday going???? Home school stuff under way over here!!! Mercy likes to do "school" too!! She is actually very into it!!! I would say this is so far our best and easiest school year as far as logistics, lessons and ease of everyone doing their work. I assist as needed but I do feel freed up with this curriculum we are using!! I wish I would have used it looooonnngggg ago! Oh well, nows the time so I am thankful to have it going for the now time!!

Good news........Elijah is in the air coming back from Wales!!! Bethany will be in the air soon heading back from Illinois!! They both, Lord willing will be here this evening!! From what I heard from Elijah or rather Melissa, he liked it but I think he liked seeing her and being with her more! haha!

Daniel's trip to Australia is coming together wonderfully! The Lord is providing and its exciting to see Him do that. Still praying the Lord would provide all Daniel needs for the trip! Thank you for praying and giving towards this endeavor! The neat thing for me is, I have met a "friend" through the Instagram app i use on my phone posting pictures in the little community of friends and she lives in Australia!! So we have plans to keep in touch and I am asking her questions as needed! She is not near to where Daniel will be but its good to have a contact over there!! so Yay!!!!!! It will be the peak of summer when Daniel is there, so the pictures I see her posting are all so green and warm looking, its their Spring now!! I wonder if I could sneak away with Daniel and miss winter like he is going to get to!!!!

Next week is Thanksgiving!!! Hope you all have wonderful plans of giving thanks and being with family!! We have plans to do just that, Lord willing!! Our family will all be together and we will have a very special young lady with us......Kristen!!!!

May the Lord bless you today with grace, peace and give your heart the desires according to His will!!

Come back Friday for instafriday!!!!

Cindy

2 comments:

Beth said...: If you went to Australia, you could just pop over and visit in New Zealand as well!!! :); November 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Rachel said...: Thank you for sharing the devotional! It is encouraging. I do struggle with what has been ordained vs. what happens due to our (people's) poor choices that God didn't want us(them) to choose. There are two very different opinions on that matter and I think I have decided that the two are merely 2 sides of the same coin. Both views seem to bring those who believe them comfort and I will never know the "answers" on this earth. So anyway, you may read me struggling with this issue (or maybe I will not write about it- I don't know). But thank you for sharing what brings you comfort. Pleas efeel free to anytime. I am very grateful for your blogfriendship! :) I am reading a book called my time in heaven this week and it has really helped me to picture what it might be like... that she was never scared or alone... I know that in my head but it just seems hard for a baby girl (or boy!) to make such a journey without us. I wonder if Joel and Makiah have met? Congrats on your 25th! Our 10th is coming up next year... strange to be married so long and just now have little babies (only). I just keep telling myself that the stars are all much older mothers... and of course Sarah was, too! Ok, enough rambling, I am off to eat some chocolate chip pie! Take care,
Rachel; November 17, 2011 at 12:55 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.