Joel's Journey: love country

Friday, October 19, 2012

love country

Sometimes the country just seems to whisk away all your fears, worries, stresses, hurts, difficulties.....but really it's just mercies that are new everyday. So thankful that the heaviness of all the above can be brought to his throne. Thankful to catch glimpses of the "light" peeking through. He is Faithful! He was, he is and will be!

Have a great weekend!!

3 comments:

Unknown said...: You are so right, Cindy. What beautiful pictures you've taken of the morning light breaking! As I read your blog and saw those pictures, all I could think of was the old song, "Great is Thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided, Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me."
--Still check your blog every day and enjoy it!
Love you always,
Ann Parker; October 19, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Unknown said...: You are so right, Cindy. What beautiful pictures you've taken of the morning light breaking! As I read your blog and saw those pictures, all I could think of was the old song, "Great is Thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided, Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me."
--Still check your blog every day and enjoy it!
Love you always,
Ann Parker; October 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Janet said...: Beautiful! There is such a serenous about waking up in the country! The quiet buzz of insects as the sun breaks through the trees! So peaceful - perfect for some quiet time! Have a lovely week-end and enjoy your autumn time! It's spring here and really quite hot already! Sending you warm greetings from Gauteng!; October 20, 2012 at 12:57 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.