Joel's Journey: Jesus loves the little children.....

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Jesus loves the little children.....

Mercy, 2nd on the left
with the cool
sparkly hat!!

Tonight was Family Night for the VBS children!!! They did a very short program, showed us their rooms and had refreshments. Mercy is in my dear friend Natalie's class, the kindergarten group. Mercy said she was helping Natalie teach the "little kids!!" She is the littlest one in there!! haha!! It has been a good week! Keeping the bed babies is not a hard job at all!! Today we went outside some and painted......with water!! :) One little fella even tried to paint the pastors shoes. What a blessing children are.......even when they are not even your own. I can see in the scriptures why Jesus had so many moments with children, sitting them on his lap, using them as illustrations, they are gifts from Him. How we need to have a view/perspective of receiving them into our families according to His plan for us. Jesus does love children, we should embrace that philosophy in every area of our lives.....the womb!!

I think I will grab some coffee, and get ready for bed.........these early VBS days are calling me to get up earlier than I really like, but its ok, I can do it!!!!

3 comments:

Teena said...: VBS just wears us out.... but I loved it too. Loved working with the little girls.

I love all your new pics. LOVE LOVE LOVES.... your kitchen pics. How awesome.

Hugs,
Teena; June 8, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Gottjoy! said...: I have a special place in my heart for VBschools because that is where I accepted Jesus in my heart as a nine year old. Our church extends VBS on Wednesday's nights in the summer. I like that instead of the whole week thing because it would drain my family.
Have a great day!; June 9, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Smilen Champ said...: hI
My name is Jenna and I came across your site. U have a great family and great wonderful kids. I was born with a rare life threatening disease. i love it when people sign my guestbook.
www.miraclechamp.webs.com; June 11, 2011 at 8:34 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.