Joel's Journey: A Winner!!!!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A Winner!!!!

Finally, something to write home about......The Lord granted favor and answer to prayers today...and a different judge. :) Bethany received 2nd place in the Open Show, there were 10 entries and a 4th place in the Open show. In the Youth show, Bethany got 2 Firsts places (two different classes) and then Grand Champion Junior doe, Andrew got Reserve Grand Champion and then the big purple banner was Best Junior Doe of Show. Plus Bethany will receive cash for winning too through the mail. We are very thankful and excited!!!

They also had some more fun on the side....race cars!!!!

Have a good evening!!!!

Cindy

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Congratulations Bethany!!! The goats look beautiful. You all did a great job 'prettying' them up. I'm glad you were able to win some things with them. They look like they deserved it. I really like your outfit too - I still think it's kind of crazy to make you wear white when handling animals!!! I had a hard enough time keeping my black skirt clean when I helped show a friends goats. :D Congratulations again and have fun with the rest of the fair. Thanks for posting an update Mrs. Morris!; September 17, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Danielle said...: WOW BESH!!!!! Man, I'm SO sorry I missed your call earlier, such exciting news I could have heard! :( :( WOW!!! Congratulations!!!!! That is so great that they did so well! :) Bet you are completely excited!

Aw, so excited for you!!! :)

Love you!; September 17, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Unknown said...: Hooray, Bethany! I am excited for you! I am glad they behaved yesterday for you. I enjoyed seeing you too at the fair. Congratulations!!!
Melinda; September 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Anonymous said...: I am interested in seeing how your Boer goats done..; September 18, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...: The Great Adventure Lyrics
Artist(Band):Steven Curtis Chapman

Saddle up your horses.....

Started out this morning in the usual way
Chasing thoughts inside my head of all I had to do today
Another time around the circle try to make it better than the last

I opened up the Bible and I read about me
Said I'd been a prisoner and God's grace had set me free
And somewhere between the pages it hit me like a lightning bolt
I saw a big frontier in front of me and I heard somebody say "let's go"!

CHORUS
Saddle up your horses we've got a trail to blaze
Through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace
Let's follow our leader into the glorious unknown
This is a life like no other - this is The Great Adventure

Come on get ready for the ride of your life
Gonna leave long faced religion in a cloud of dust behind
And discover all the new horizons just waiting to be explored
This is what we were created for

(Chorus)

BRIDGE
We'll travel over, over mountains so high
We'll go through valleys below
Still through it all we'll find that
This is the greatest journey that the human heart will ever see
The love of God will take us far beyond our wildest dreams

Yeah... oh saddle up your horses... come on get ready to ride

(Chorus); September 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Anonymous said...: There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.; September 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city.; September 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.......................; September 18, 2008 at 10:51 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.