Faithful God

This afternoon, as I began teaching the women’s Bible Study about a faithful God, my social worker walked up and said they needed a nurse at the school immediately.  Fortunately, Nurse Dayna was there and went quickly down to the school.  Towards the end of the Bible Study, she came to tell me that she was pretty sure that the kid had an appendicitis.   After they sent him to the hospital, we began to second guess if we should have had Nurse Dayna go to really stress that it was an emergency.  But we did not.  I told Dayna that whether we messed up or not, we serve a faithful God.  We cry out to Him for wisdom every day.

We made several phone calls to nurses at the hospital, then waited to see what would happen.  As I was writing this, Nurse Dayna came down to tell me that the hospital nurse called her back.  I wish I could say that they are doing an ultrasound and taking care of the situation.  Alas, it just doesn’t happen that way.  The doctor has put the boy on “pain management” and will do an ultrasound tomorrow.   Nurse Dayna tried to stress that the appendix may have burst and they needed to act quickly.  The nurse laughed and said the doctor didn’t think so and they only do ultrasounds on Monday and Thursday anyway!  Grateful it is now Wednesday evening, but still.  Since he is a school kid, we can’t really do much.  Even if we could, all ultrasound technicians go home at 5 pm.  We realized it is in this moment that we have to trust in our faithful God.  We can only do so much.   He calls us to be faithful.   But when we can’t do anymore,  we look to Him who is always Faithful to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep His commands (Deut. 7:9).  

Gloria and Esther

Thank you for your prayers for Gloria. She is home and doing better.

During church, we have a time of testimony. The kids can get up and praise God for whatever is on their heart. Some of the kids will get up and say “I thank God for my life.” Others will thank God for doing well in school or other things. One testimony stuck out to me this week and that was of little Esther age 8. Esther is in Gloria’s house and has also seemed to enjoy taking care of her. Esther got up and with her beautiful smile lighting up the room she said, “I thank God, Gloria got home from the hospital.” As I glanced over at Gloria in her wheelchair, I thought how blessed we are! So on behalf of Gloria and Esther, I say thank you for praying!

We are currently looking for a new housemom for Gloria and Esther’s house and would ask for the right mom for that house. It is not an easy task to be a mom to eight girls and especially when one has so many needs as Gloria. But Gloria and Esther and the other 6 need a mother who will love them.

prayer for Gloria

We are reminded how precious life is and how God has created each life for His glory. We are especially reminded of this with our special needs kids. He teaches us so much through their lives. One of those precious lives is Gloria. We do not know much about her past but in her present state she cannot walk but gets along pretty well crawling and scooting. She also doesn’t talk. The last few months have been rough on Gloria as she has had chicken pox and typhoid. She also has been in the hospital several times for other reasons. I got word yesterday that she was throwing up and very weak again. We put her in the hospital again and are waiting for results. Would you please pray for Gloria, for her future, and for wisdom in how to take care of her? Would you also thank God for her life and what He can teach all of us through her and others like her?