Noah, was he crazy or what?!

One of the reasons that I didn't blog for several months is because I was knee deep in a study of healing. I was learning so much and taking in so much information - but couldn't form a complete sentence on exactly what it was that God was teaching me. So, one tiny book about healing and countless nights of me reading the word to discover what God had to say about healing - here is where my heart is.

I could talk for hours about why I believe my son will be healed - but it boils down to this piece of scripture.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (NIV)

and my favorite version (NLT)...

Faith is the confidence of what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance of things we cannot see.

I don't know when we will see Jet fully healed. I wish I did, but I don't. My hearts desire is to see my son blossom and to hear his sweet voice. God's word says that if we delight ourselves in the Lord, that He will give us the desires of heart (Psalm 37:4). And you what, I believe His word is the truth and I know that my God will not disappoint.

In all honesty - it is difficult to believe that our son will be healed. But His word says that it has already happened (Isaiah 53:5 - But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed) and even though we can not see it with our eyes - one day we will. One day I will hear Jet's voice. One day, things will not be as challenging as they are for him right now. One day to the amazement of all us - his body will be whole.

I don't believe that Jet's "current condition" is God's perfect will. We live in a fallen world and crap happens. Satan came to kill, steal and destroy. Jesus came to give us life in abundance. However, because our God is so good and because He loves us so much - to all of evil's dismay - He will use Jet's chromosome duplication and cerebral palsy to show all of us that He is still a God that Heals!!! 

Can I hear an Amen!!!???

Confident of His Goodness,

Lela

Merry Christmas... Oh No, wait a second... Happy St. Patrick's Day!

First of all, I'm sorry I bailed on blogging. I found Pinterest and have been stuck there for the past 3 months. Second of all, thank you very kindly to all my friends that asked, "why haven't you been blogging?" That makes me feel very special.

I'll do both of us a favor and not recap the past 3 months. Quite frankly, I don't remember it anyway. Ha!

However, there is something that has been life changing and I will dive deeper in another post. A few weeks before Christmas we had one of our pastors and a few others in our amazing church lay hands on Jet. We are believing that God is going to heal him. Pastor Linda said to be watching for his healing to take place. One of the first areas that has been healed is his gluten intolerance. That's right... Jet has been eating Gluten for a couple of months now. You have no idea how huge this is for our family. It's beyond words.

Let's talk about today.

Jet and Will both had their first soccer games. And it was such a bittersweet afternoon. Will did awesome, of course. He had a tremendous amount of fun and we all had a lot of fun cheering him on from the side lines.

Jet's practices have been difficult on so many levels. Once again, too deep to go there this very minute.
I knew the game would be hard for him because he's NEVER been in that type of situation. The coach and I had a discussion about what I thought the first game would like for Jet and I honestly told him that I had no idea because this was so new for him.

He was terrified. He didn't know what to do. He was crying. He was confused. It was awful and heartbreaking to say the very least. Will tried telling him he'd do okay. Anabella was bringing him his water bottle to try to make his tears go away. And then finally, God showed His Grace once again. The coach from the opposite team said "come on in with him." Thank you so very much coach that I don't know. You made a very difficult situation bearable. I didn't want to go in with him, so I sent my first born in with him.

I can not put into words how proud of Will I was. He held his hand and took him up and down the field. He showed restraint in not kicking the ball when it landed right in front of him but encouraged his brother to kick the ball. He let go of his hand to give him independence when he found it necessary, but took it back when his brother wasn't sure which direction to go.

Will showed a tremendous depth of character today. He saved the day!!! I love you Will.

Confident of His Goodness,

Lela