JollyRoger
Shared on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 09:04I have a couple of blogs today, full weekend. First is an answer to lots of prayer. I'm apologizing now, for the length.
Did you know that God's timing is always perfect timing? I know it is sometimes hard to believe but it is so true. Allow me to elaborate a bit. Megan was fitted for her wheelchair about a month ago. After talking with the rep from the company who is building her wheelchair and her physical therapist, we were both a tiny bit worried on how we were going to make this all work. See, we have a Dodge Durango that we use most of the time. As you all know my dad lives with us so when all of us are riding together we have to put the third seat up. Which is totally fine except that would leave no room for her wheelchair to be folded up. Not to mention taking her out of it, putting her in the car seat and getting the whole thing folded up. It was totally doable but having three kids, you don't really want to spend a lot of time getting things in order like that in a busy parking lot, you know? So, what did we do?
Well we started praying. It wasn't anything urgent. In fact we were both pretty calm about it all and didn't really worry about it. We just prayed that God would reveal a solution to this problem or lead us in the direction to make this transition a little easier. You all know how expensive handicapped vans are so that was pretty much out of the question. However, we did pray that something would come available that would help us out. We said He knew exactly what we needed and if it was HIS will that something would work out. Well, even as I type this I still get way excited and tear up! About three weeks after we started praying about this, we received an email from church. They had a handicapped van donated to the church and wanted to know if we would like to HAVE it. See, on this day, it was a bad day. One of those days when you here nothing but bad news about Megan. I was actually on the phone with Jim and we were both crying because of all the things we had heard that day. Then we receive this email. I couldn't believe it and I was totally speechless, which is unusual for me? That day I met Jim up at the church so we could look at it. The whole way there I had tears in my eyes and I just kept saying Thank you Lord, over and over again. When we came up to the van, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It is wheelchair accessible, with a ramp included. I will not have to get Megan out of her chair or anything. There is plenty of room for everyone and then some. Lots of storage to bring all of her stuff with us. Everything for the wheelchair is all done by remote control. This van has every single thing in it that we needed and it also has a VHS/DVD player in it. Right now it has a VHS in it but Jim is going to change it out with a DVD player because we do not have any VHS tapes anymore. That is VERY minor seeing as how that is not a neccesity but we are very VERY thankful for it! So, we were told that if we wanted it then it was ours! That was it. I still couldn't believe it! What a HUGE answer to prayer. The really wonderful thing was, it couldn't have happened on a better day. God knew when we needed that. It was just one of those days when you were pretty sure you couldn't take any of this anymore and we just wanted all of this to go away. Did we walk away with the van that day? No, we didn't, which was totally fine because Megan did not have her wheelchair yet anyways so we really did not have a need for it yet. We were just totally excited that it was going to be ours. There were some things about the title that had to be straightened out and all that. Neither one of us were worried about it at all. We knew that God knew when we would need the van. Well, we received a call that Megan's wheelchair will be delivered a week from Tuesday. The next day we found out that the title and everything had been straightened out and the van was ours. So today we went and picked up our van and it is sitting in our driveway. God provided it to us just in the right time. We have time to get the tag on it and a couple of other things done before Megan's wheelchair arrives. We didn't get it 3 weeks ago and we didn't get it a month from now. He knew exactly what we needed and when we needed it!!! I drove home in the Durango behind Jim, who was driving the van, and my eyes were filled with tears just looking at it. I couldn't believe it! I am not surprised that He provided for us because, like I said, God knows what we need, when we need it but we are both so humbled and so unworthy of His blessings. What an amazing God we serve!
You know I was thinking about something. Megan has not had a very good 4 days. Basically since her surgery she has been very tired, extrememly cranky and just not herself. Well, her feeds are still having to go in MUCH slower that she should and we worry about her nutrition intake. We can both honestly tell you that it has been a very long 4 days so far and we still worry about the pain she is in and her losing weight. She wakes up a lot now just screaming in pain and it just breaks your heart. She will be fine one minute and totally loose it the next. We took her out to the pumpkin patch yesterday and she got way too hot and it just wore her little body out. Although, I will tell you that she picked out her own little Megan pumpkin and she would not let go of it all day! I say all that to say this, sometimes when things seem just awful and you are afraid of how much worse they can get, Man, you can always see how many ways God has blessed you. That day that we received that email was His perfect timing. If it had not been the van then I know it would have been something else totally amazing. We really do have an AMAZING Father. No, I do not like that Megan has this awful disease. But we are so blessed to have great doctors and amazing fmaily and friends to go through this with. No, I do not like the fact that Megan tires out too fast and cannot play like other children can. But I am so thankful that God blessed us with a wheelchair to help her remain comfortable. No, I do not like the fact that Megan is not able to eat by mouth and has to have a tube in her belly. But we are so thankful for NG tubes, NJ tubes, G-tubes, and GJ-tubes. And no, I do not like the fact that Megan's life has been possibly shortened because of a disease that there is no cure for. HOWEVER, I am so thankful that we serve a God that will never leave us or forsake us and that even in our deepest and darkest moments, He is there, lifting us up. When I am at the breaking point and I am down on my knees with my hands up in the air, like a child reaching up for her Father to pick her up, that is EXACTLY what He does. I praise you Lord and I thank you for The Cross, for Your Son, for blessings and for trials. We will praise you forever and ever! Amen!!!
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JR
Did you know that God's timing is always perfect timing? I know it is sometimes hard to believe but it is so true. Allow me to elaborate a bit. Megan was fitted for her wheelchair about a month ago. After talking with the rep from the company who is building her wheelchair and her physical therapist, we were both a tiny bit worried on how we were going to make this all work. See, we have a Dodge Durango that we use most of the time. As you all know my dad lives with us so when all of us are riding together we have to put the third seat up. Which is totally fine except that would leave no room for her wheelchair to be folded up. Not to mention taking her out of it, putting her in the car seat and getting the whole thing folded up. It was totally doable but having three kids, you don't really want to spend a lot of time getting things in order like that in a busy parking lot, you know? So, what did we do?
Well we started praying. It wasn't anything urgent. In fact we were both pretty calm about it all and didn't really worry about it. We just prayed that God would reveal a solution to this problem or lead us in the direction to make this transition a little easier. You all know how expensive handicapped vans are so that was pretty much out of the question. However, we did pray that something would come available that would help us out. We said He knew exactly what we needed and if it was HIS will that something would work out. Well, even as I type this I still get way excited and tear up! About three weeks after we started praying about this, we received an email from church. They had a handicapped van donated to the church and wanted to know if we would like to HAVE it. See, on this day, it was a bad day. One of those days when you here nothing but bad news about Megan. I was actually on the phone with Jim and we were both crying because of all the things we had heard that day. Then we receive this email. I couldn't believe it and I was totally speechless, which is unusual for me? That day I met Jim up at the church so we could look at it. The whole way there I had tears in my eyes and I just kept saying Thank you Lord, over and over again. When we came up to the van, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It is wheelchair accessible, with a ramp included. I will not have to get Megan out of her chair or anything. There is plenty of room for everyone and then some. Lots of storage to bring all of her stuff with us. Everything for the wheelchair is all done by remote control. This van has every single thing in it that we needed and it also has a VHS/DVD player in it. Right now it has a VHS in it but Jim is going to change it out with a DVD player because we do not have any VHS tapes anymore. That is VERY minor seeing as how that is not a neccesity but we are very VERY thankful for it! So, we were told that if we wanted it then it was ours! That was it. I still couldn't believe it! What a HUGE answer to prayer. The really wonderful thing was, it couldn't have happened on a better day. God knew when we needed that. It was just one of those days when you were pretty sure you couldn't take any of this anymore and we just wanted all of this to go away. Did we walk away with the van that day? No, we didn't, which was totally fine because Megan did not have her wheelchair yet anyways so we really did not have a need for it yet. We were just totally excited that it was going to be ours. There were some things about the title that had to be straightened out and all that. Neither one of us were worried about it at all. We knew that God knew when we would need the van. Well, we received a call that Megan's wheelchair will be delivered a week from Tuesday. The next day we found out that the title and everything had been straightened out and the van was ours. So today we went and picked up our van and it is sitting in our driveway. God provided it to us just in the right time. We have time to get the tag on it and a couple of other things done before Megan's wheelchair arrives. We didn't get it 3 weeks ago and we didn't get it a month from now. He knew exactly what we needed and when we needed it!!! I drove home in the Durango behind Jim, who was driving the van, and my eyes were filled with tears just looking at it. I couldn't believe it! I am not surprised that He provided for us because, like I said, God knows what we need, when we need it but we are both so humbled and so unworthy of His blessings. What an amazing God we serve!
You know I was thinking about something. Megan has not had a very good 4 days. Basically since her surgery she has been very tired, extrememly cranky and just not herself. Well, her feeds are still having to go in MUCH slower that she should and we worry about her nutrition intake. We can both honestly tell you that it has been a very long 4 days so far and we still worry about the pain she is in and her losing weight. She wakes up a lot now just screaming in pain and it just breaks your heart. She will be fine one minute and totally loose it the next. We took her out to the pumpkin patch yesterday and she got way too hot and it just wore her little body out. Although, I will tell you that she picked out her own little Megan pumpkin and she would not let go of it all day! I say all that to say this, sometimes when things seem just awful and you are afraid of how much worse they can get, Man, you can always see how many ways God has blessed you. That day that we received that email was His perfect timing. If it had not been the van then I know it would have been something else totally amazing. We really do have an AMAZING Father. No, I do not like that Megan has this awful disease. But we are so blessed to have great doctors and amazing fmaily and friends to go through this with. No, I do not like the fact that Megan tires out too fast and cannot play like other children can. But I am so thankful that God blessed us with a wheelchair to help her remain comfortable. No, I do not like the fact that Megan is not able to eat by mouth and has to have a tube in her belly. But we are so thankful for NG tubes, NJ tubes, G-tubes, and GJ-tubes. And no, I do not like the fact that Megan's life has been possibly shortened because of a disease that there is no cure for. HOWEVER, I am so thankful that we serve a God that will never leave us or forsake us and that even in our deepest and darkest moments, He is there, lifting us up. When I am at the breaking point and I am down on my knees with my hands up in the air, like a child reaching up for her Father to pick her up, that is EXACTLY what He does. I praise you Lord and I thank you for The Cross, for Your Son, for blessings and for trials. We will praise you forever and ever! Amen!!!
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JR
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