Joel's Journey: work.pray.jesus.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

work.pray.jesus.

Gosh, we have had soooo much rain over the last two weeks. Today it's sunny and spose to be sunny for 3 days according to the weather and then rain predicted most everyday next week. It's fantastic for the garden! BUT seriously, the guys have not worked in 2 weeks. If it is sunny, they can't work, because it DID rain and can't get into the job site. I literally don't know what we are going to do. Our California trip is in 13 days. I don't really like to make a big deal and issues in our family, too many to tell really, and most have their own situations to deal with, but would you pray for help to our situation with the rain and work and the trip. Of course God knows all this and he will see us through. Terry is so optimistic sometimes, I don't think he sees reality and I'm so opposite of him, I'm wondering how we are going to live. Thanks be to God, he can deal with us! Hahah!!

Today is Wednesday so that means rowdy comes over. He's so fun to be with. He LOVES the farm and coming over. He loves to play in the sandbox, and eat and go in the garden and pinch off lettuce and eat it and he loves to have a movie time!!

Thanks for standing in he gap! Much love!

Hosie makes great donuts too!!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: "I'm wondering how we are going to live." One moment, one breath at a time. Trusting God even when we don't know how. He's got this.; April 29, 2015 at 8:26 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.