Joel's Journey: Be Careful !!!!!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Be Careful !!!!!

I am writing this first to our own family, and then to all that have guns. Be careful!! We read a story today about a young newlywed couple of three months, home schooled, courtship and all, experienced a tragic accident this weekend. They were shooting skeets on Sat., and on Saturday evening he was cleaning his gun in their apartment and there was an unknown shell in the gun and the gun went off and he shot his precious wife in the shoulder, later she died. I am not a gun person, but with all these guys, that changed. We have a lot of guns and I have always not liked them. I know you can be careful, this couple was I am sure. It just made my heart so sad and wanted to mention it that we might pray for these families. And for us all to be careful!!!

Here's the story

4 comments:

Jessica said...: Thank you for sharing the article. I think it often times becomes so easy for gun owners to "let their guard down" and become complacent about gun safety.; February 4, 2009 at 6:15 AM
LJR said...: That is such a sad story. I agree, safety is VERY important. My uncle was shot when a gun that was loaded in the corner of a shed fell over, when he was a teenager. It damaged his face and he lost an eye to it, he has a glass eye. Funny thing is, to this day he is STILL a gun owner! But he is much more careful.; February 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Nikki Bettis said...: Thank you so much for posting this. I completely agree. I have always had a dislike for guns since having had children. I was raised with and around them from birth and my family have always been hunters. Then I married Brad who was raised like I have been and hunted himself. So, of course, that is what our children are doing now...despite my trepidations about it all. We are always so careful about locking them up, keeping them unloaded, safeties on and all but you can just never be too safe as far as I am concerned. I do not live in fear by any means but there is a lot of wisdom and responsibility that goes along with owning a gun and there is a deep respect for the gun itself and the handling of it. Thank you again for your reminder.; February 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM
The Ahlgren Family said...: We read that yesterday and have been praying for the families and especially for the young man! My heart is heavy for him!!! We're thankful for the Lord's protection thus far, and pray that He continues to protect us and grant us wisdom as we "keep and bear arms"!; February 4, 2009 at 4:11 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.