How quickly theses verses came to life 24 hours ago. How worthless everything else is... everything that I think is SO important just fades into the distance when the true value of life is set before me. It sickens me when I consider the "value" I put on such stupid things, when the precious gift of life trickles away every day.
Sitting here in the hospital - I watch Doctor's come and go, tests taken, needles prodding, blood drawn. Every grain of life is of highest value. When you have to sit and watch your own daughter struggle so desperately as she watches her daughter struggle to fight her pain - all the "these things" are just garbage!
Unanswered questions become secondary while we keep praying for the Author of Life to relieve us from the anxious thoughts that creep in. The wonderful peace will sooth us until another battery of questions come. We live for a faint smile from a little chapped lip mouth.
I pray that God will dump heaps and blessings on all those that are holding us up in prayer, when we aren't sure what to pray. I am the one that asks God to wake you up in the middle of the night to pray. All of a sudden "knowing Christ Jesus" is the most valuable thing to have in this life. I pray that you never have to experience this in the way that I am right now.
And through this difficult time...I will let God - I will receive from God - the knowledge of all the "worthless things" I waste my time on. And with His faithful help, I will replace the "these things" with the better choice - the eternal choice of each minute spent of the rest of my life.
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Above we see Mama Molly with Hannah Jane in the pink and Lola Mae in the yellow. (Lola is the 1 year old daughter of Katie and Stan)
Just yesterday morning we had Hannah and Molly going through their regular routine of going to Pre-School, coming home for lunch, trying to take a nap, and ending up in the emergency room at Brenner's Children's Hospital in Winston Salem.
After tests and spending the first night (of many, I'm afraid) in the hospital, we found out that Hannah has a tumor the size of a baseball that is most likely cancerous. She will have to have surgery to remove the tumor and because it has grown out of her kidney, the kidney will be removed too. If cancerous, there will be chemo treatments to plan for.
Wow! How quickly life takes on a lot more meaning.
I can't find the words to express our love and appreciation to all who pray their guts out for us at this time. I truly do pray for God's most unusual blessings on all of you.
Thank you and Love You... Keep Praying,
Paul and Janet Coates
I can't find the words to express our love and appreciation to all who pray their guts out for us at this time. I truly do pray for God's most unusual blessings on all of you.
Thank you and Love You... Keep Praying,
Paul and Janet Coates
Prayers for beautiful Hannah Jane and your entire family.
ReplyDeletePraying for sweet Hannah and for all the rest of the family! She's absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy heart aches for this precious baby girl and because I am a grandmother too, I feel an ache in my heart that our
ReplyDeleteGod in heaven will send His Angels down to your precious Hannah and wrap her in their arms of healing. love you and the prayers of faith are with you and your family, Deb
Janet, I just learned of this. I will pray right now for little Hannah and for all of you. God is our great Comforter and Provider.
ReplyDeleteI will add Lil Miss Hannah to my prayers and also for the strength her family needs to help get her through this journey....
ReplyDeleteJanet, thank you so much for the updates. I will continue to pray for Hannah Jane and Molly and Kurt as well as you, Paul and your whole family.
ReplyDeleteSending prayers from Ohio for this beautiful baby and her family. Debbie Dalzell
ReplyDeletePaul, I remember thinking on Tuesday when Molly and Hannah visited you at the school that I had never seen you so proud and happy, and I remember your sweet comment about the pure joy that grandchildren bring. My heart breaks for you and Janet and Molly and Kurt right now. We will be petitioning our loving and powerful Lord for Hannah's complete recovery and for faith and trust and peace in the midst of the storm. Diane Ellison.
ReplyDeletePraying really hard!!!! LOVE YOU GUYSSS!!!
ReplyDeleteHannah and my Annarose are little buddies at school. We will be praying daily for her complete and perfect healing. And the strength to get through this...
ReplyDeleteWe will be praying for Hannah and the entire family. Looking forward to hearing His great works in the life of this precious child and your family. Let us know how to pray, please, so that we may be of one accord. Let us know how and when you need help, this is a time that God has allowed many servants to come into your life, please let them serve God by helping you. God Bless and Keep You!
ReplyDeleteJanet- I am crying over your beautiful words as I sit here and snuggle with our miracle child. Just three short years ago, we felt the same overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and hope from our friends, family and strangers literally all over the country for a child that should not have made it out of the delivery room. We spent 8 weeks in the NICU with a baby that did not move or blink, that we could not hold or feed or heal ourselves. The only things that got us thru that heartbreaking time in our lives were the prayers and support of all of those people. So, tonight, we will pray for your family as so many prayed for ours. We will pray that it brings you closer as a family, as it did ours. We will pray that it only strengthens your faith in a God who loves you, as it did ours. We will pray that soon- in a timing you will not understand, you will look at that beautiful, HEALTHY little girl and be overwhelmed at the miracle that she is, as we do every day with our son.
ReplyDeleteHealing and Peace to you all.
Leah and Heath Wolfe