Joel's Journey: pray for others!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

pray for others!

For the last two years Caleb, Daniel, Bethany, Elijah and Anna have participated in an event in our town, Guthrie, called the Journey to Bethlehem. They have live scenes set up for folks to walk through and then at the end of the tour they have a reception room and our children play their instruments. The father and husband that organizes this event was killed in a car wreck Friday morning, his name is Chris (age 34) His wife was also in the truck but is is in critical but stable condition. They just celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary and have two children I think around 8 and 10. Would you pray for this family? Can you imagine???

Here are a few more, I know we all have lists, but I like to share with others because "I know" how much prayer means and feels to a desperate, hurting heart!

Leightyn's family.....a 5 year old little girl that died suddenly of a brain tumor in August.
The Evans family......I mentioned this family not long ago, the wife giving birth to 21 week old twins and had complications in delivery and died.
Oliva's family......a 11 year old little girl who died this week of cancer.

The guys are having to work today in Ada and in OKC, so they can be off on Monday becasue Caleb and Daniel are pouring the foundation to each of their houses!!! Very exciting!!! So today, being Saturday will be different not having them here. :( But tonight.....our tradition of Friday grilled hamburgers!!!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!!

Josiah's toe is healing, thankfully but it still looks, well.....bad! The toe nail is coming off and is all floppy and wet underneath, but he is going 90 to nothing, riding his bike and doing jumps!!!

I so miss you Joel :)........sights and smells remind me of you during this time...

Our internet is still very random, but Lord willing satellite on the 12th, yippppppeeeeeeee!!!!!!

3 comments:

Teena said...: praying for you today... as you remember this time of year and JOEL. I was reading over at a blog that a friend told me about ... and immediately thought "I need to tell Cindy about this family b/c she will pray." I left you a msg on fb.

Praying for Josiah's toe.

Hope your weekend is great.

cold here this morning....

Our Mandi comes home on Wed. I haven't heard from her in a several days and the Kenyan girl we know sent me a msg last night saying that Mandi's joints ached. Will you pray that I trust and NOT worry.

love ya lots,
Teena; November 6, 2010 at 1:58 PM
j said...: Your family pics are wonderful!!!! I especially enjoyed seeing you and Terry in all of them and reading some of your story. So sweet. He sure loves you and can't keep his hands off!!! :) He reminds me of Chad so much. I did not even think about how hard losing a child would be on the marriage and God is faithful and what a testimony of a good godly marriage you have. Thank you for sharing this with us. You are all georgeous!!

Love
Jessica; November 6, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Mrs. Morris! I got the surprise today in the mail!!!

They are so cute and soft!!!

Thanks so much!

That's terrible what happened to Chris. Wow. I cannot imagine.
Whenever I hear of other accidents and deaths I feel so blessed because God has been so merciful and kind to my family in that nothing critical or major, major has ever happened to us!
I am SO thankful to the Lord!!

Thanks again Mrs. Morris for the sweet gift!! Hope Daniel and Caleb's work on their house went well today!

Stay warm!! (I know my feet will!! :D)
Sarah; November 8, 2010 at 10:21 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.