Joel's Journey: Australia bound!!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Australia bound!!

Today is the day!! I knew it would come! I am happy and excited for Daniel and the journey/adventure that is ahead, but my mothering heart is sad, it's just hard to send them off!! He and Terry are in route to the OKC airport! He will fly to Dallas at 6:40 and then board a plane in Dallas around 10pm and be in the air for 17 hours til he arrives in Australia!! It's funny, they are 15 hours ahead of us, and the little children told Daniel, he will be living in the future being ahead of us by that many hours! I guess they are right! It's amazing to see how the Lord has provided way over what Daniel's goal was, I trust God has his purposes in mind with that!! Thank you for being apart of meeting that need and goal! If the Lord brings him to mind in these next 3 months, please obey those promptings and pray! Being in Gods will is the safest place!!

Tonight.... movies and junk food!! Gotta bring it in right!! Some are doing a lock-in at church!! I doubt we make it through all the movies!!

Hope you stay safe and bring in the New Year with a desire to follow God more, pray more, share more, love more, forgive more.....

4 comments:

Daniel and Jaynee Lockwood and Family said...: When I think and pray for you, Cindy, I will pray for Daniel. Even though he didn't come to Mexico... :-); January 1, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Teena said...: I did tear up when I saw you and Terry with Daniel. These children growing up and flying is what we want but our mama hearts say different.

We went to friends... and played games, had soup, sandwiches, chocolate, fudge, dip, brownies etc.

We talked about school... and what we use... talking about different learning styles... and books.

Much much much much much love,
Teena

praying for Daniel.. .and YOU.; January 1, 2012 at 6:22 PM
Jen said...: Will be praying for Daniel as God brings him to mind! My sweet husband and I started dating while we were on a six-week musical missions trip to Australia in 1987! We were married the following summer, and we have four children, including a sweet 16year old daughter named Sydney, after the city where we fell in love! Praying God's richest blessings on Daniel and peace for your momma's heart while he is so very far away!; January 1, 2012 at 7:20 PM
Tips Kulit Putih said...: asuransi jiwa; September 30, 2015 at 10:38 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.