We wanted to send a quick update to you about our week. We did not get to start our hospital stay with Gabe on Monday like we had hoped, due to some insurance confusion. So, we will now be going in tomorrow morning (Wednesday) for our two day visit. During this time, Gabe will be observed and monitored 24 hours a day for seizure activity, with video, audio, and EEG recordings. At the end of our time there, they will sedate him for an MRI, and then we will be given the report, as well as new medication for our little guy.
We appreciate you joining with us in prayer over this time!
And, specifically, we ask that you join us in miracle-sized prayers!
The other day, Mark and I were talking about our prayers for Gabe. We pray pretty BIG world-changer kind of prayers for his LIFE. But, I realized I had been praying pretty small prayers for this week's hospital stay. I had been praying for strength and peace over these days, since we would be seeing seizures without any medicine, and for the doctors to have discernment about what kind of seizures he has and what medicine would be best.
But, Mark stopped me in my tracks, and said, "We need to be praying bigger than that. I'm saying that there will be NO seizures when the medicine comes off. In fact, we need to pray that there be no more CYST when they do the MRI too!"
This is where my faith in miracles meets my realistic, often skeptical, personality and says "Move over, little pray-er. Make room for my miracle-sized crazy big prayers. Because that's how big God is and that's how much glory He can show through His little Gabe."
So, Mark has challenged me, and has led our family in some miracle prayers instead!
Now we expect some God-sized things to happen in the next two days..."more than we can ask or imagine". And, He will receive every bit of the glory for Gabe's healing! Whether it comes instantly or whether it comes over time and through medicine, either way, we trust Him and we wait expectantly for what He will do next!
And, because I know that every blog I write has to have a picture of the little cutie, here are some recent ones from his week!
3 comments:
He is absolutely precious! Will definitely be praying for your little man!
Wow! That picture of him and Abby-Cate in the bath melted my heart!! What a little blessing! It seems learning to pray "big" prayers is something the Lord is trying to teach me as well right now. It's been the subject of two blogs I read in the past two days!
I am praying my husband will change his heart towards hosting two Latvian orphans this summer!
And I will pray miracles over Gabe this week as well! What a beautiful little face!
How id little Gabe doing? I'm so concerned!ayphin
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