Have you ever stopped to think about why we celebrate birthdays each year? I mean aside from a handful of kids most children are healthy and strong and so there is no concern for them not being around for their next birthday, and yet birthdays are such a BIG production! A few weeks back we celebrated Lukas’ 4th birthday and this one was a really special one! It was a day for us to thank God for giving us another year with him. It was a way for us to thank those individuals closest to us that have aided in the past year (or three) as we have had to lean on those around us. It was a way for Lukas to feel “normal” amidst feeling set apart in a lot of areas. We are so thankful for Lukas and his life!
Thank you to all of you celebrated with us and have supported us near and far through this long battle, we are forever grateful!
We need some more prayer at this time. As you know, Lukas was supposed to start his brain radiation a few weeks ago, but his #’s tanked and he got sick, so they were delayed. They continued to get delayed, because his counts never recovered, and here we are three weeks later and his counts are still much too low to start chemotherapy up again and much too low to start radiation. This has his oncology team quite worried as to why his counts are not recovering. I will not share with you their concerns, because it is just speculation, but to get some answers he has to have a bone marrow biopsy this Wednesday. This will help them figure out what is going on and put together a game plan moving forward.
We could use all the prayers you could send our way in regards to this, because if it IS something, than that would be awful, and in addition, it would derail all of our plans to attend a New Staff Training with an organization that Joel and I decided to work with.
It would be easy to freak out and get very worried, but we are reminded daily to not be anxious! In fact, this Sunday, the sermon was on Matthew 6:25-34 which is all about not being anxious. Do any of you worry? Are you anxious about things often or even at all? If so, read these words of Jesus to his followers:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
I am trying to focus on these words, and I am placing Lukas’ life and our plans at His feet. I ask that you join us in prayer. His bone marrow biopsy is on Wednesday morning, but we won’t get results until Friday.
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