Please Pray

Amy from Dandelion Seeds is hosting a prayer list for Emily on her blog on Monday to pray for Emily's surgery that will take place on Tuesday. She is asking for those willing to commit to praying at different time throughout the day for Emily. Please visit her site to sign up for the prayer list. Thank you Amy for doing this!!

EDITED: WOW I just took a look at Amy's site and saw that many of my friends and wonderful people who don't even know us have signed up to commit to a specific time to pray for Emily tomorrow. Also many of them are posting about it on their blogs. I am in AWE!!!!! This is just amazing.....AMAZING!!! THANK YOU EVERYone who is praying for Emily and that has been praying for Emily. Father God YOU are AMAZING!!

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16

Emily's sugery is going to be this Tuesday February 28th at 7:30 am central time. She will be in the hospital for at least 3 days and I will be staying with her. I think Scott will try to keep the blog and e-mails updated as he gets the time. We ask that you specifically pray that God will guide Emily's doctor's hands and her surgery is successful. We ask that you pray for courage for Emily and that she has a quick recovery.

My husband prayers have been prayers of thanksgiving. He thanks God that he gave Emily to us. He tells God that Emily has been such a joy for us to have. He thanks God that He has trusted this little girl that He loves more than we do with us.

When Emily prays to God she asks God to help her to be brave and to make her healthy. She also prays for Candace and tells God that she hopes she can go home soon.

When Frankie prays for his sister he says please God help Emily get well and be with her and the doctor.

When I pray I also say prayers of thanksgiving, thanking God for this precious gift he gave to us. I also pray that he comforts Emily and that he will hold on to her tight in His arms. I pray that God will heal her body and cure her cancer. I pray that she will survive her surgery. I pray that the doctor is able to remove her thyroid without damaging any of her nerves. I pray that Emily will live a long long life and that she is always bananas for Jesus. I pray let us just make it through this day. I pray a lot of things.

I also have times when I want to pray but nothing comes to my head and I just ask that God will just know what we need and that he will take care of the rest. I just sit with God and just try to listen and feel His comfort.

I feel numb and like I am just going through the motions today. I feel very tired both physically and mentally.

Today in the car I was complaining to Scott about just feeling sad and grumpy and tired. I was telling him how I wished I was friendlier with his family today so I could have shown them how much I really do love them. But that I just couldn't because I am feeling stuck in my own selfish little world and just too tired and just too grumpy. Emily heard me and she said to me, "Mom, you should give your burdens to God and He will give you rest." This came out of the mouth of my little girl who is the one who actually has cancer, who is actually the one who will have to have a surgery and her thyroid taken from her, who is the one that will have to take a pill the rest of her life, SHE is the one with real burdens and here I am playing the violin and the woe is me song. I just love this girl, I love the hard baby that she was, I love the little 4 year old that used to go around asking people if they love Jesus and then tell them if the do they go to Heaven and if they don't they go to Hell, I love the little girl who loves to sing and dance and be silly, I love the little girl who loves to giggle, I love the person she is and the young lady she is becoming. I love Emily.


Candace out of surgery and resting.

Candace did well today in her thirteenth surgery since this illness began. In her abdominal cavity they found that the infection looked like it had cleared and they were able to close it up. Praise the Lord forHis faithfulness and the faithfulness of all the saints who have prayed. This was a very large and deep site. They also closed one more small site on her side. This leaves one more open site on her back. The doctor said things could drain to this area and he want to watch it . Please continue to pray that she can hold the tube feedings and not go into vomiting. In surgery today they moved her stomach tube to her large intestine and they are hoping this will alleviate the problem. We will inform you tomorrow of the next move here. Thanks for staying in prayer.

In Christ,
Cathy for all

Please click HERE to read more about Candace.

Also please pray for Molly's (from Choosing Home) 2 year old son who just 2 days ago became very sick and was having unbarable pain all over his little body. It looks like he has Kawasaki Syndrome that is very rare and needs imediate attention or it will not be treatable.

Please click HERE to read about Molly's son Israel.