May 2 ~ 2012 & 2013

I wrote this email earlier today before we went to the neurologist.  We increased Andrew's new (old drug he took 2-6 grade) and will decrease the other main one until he is off of it in 5 weeks!  Please pray for his liver and for the medicine to work as well as it did before.

I thank God that He worked in the way He did last year.  And I thank Him that he brought it straight to my attention today in my Beth Moore book.

We are having Scooby Doo weather here today (misty and foggy).  Will has a mountain bike race, so we hope to end this day well!   Thanks!

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This is the National Day of Prayer in our country - in case you did not know or remember!  I am reminding you, because I would rather be reminded now than late at night when I finally hear something about it on TV.

Today, as I opened my Beth Moore devotional for May 2, I saw something I had written last year.  The heading on the page is "When was the last time you felt like everything in your life was quaking except your stability in Christ?"  It talks about Abraham and being willing to follow in obedience and asking for guidance - even when we don't know where we are going or we don't understand.  It refers to the promises in Isaiah that God will satisfy our needs and strengthen us.  We can lean on His power - which has everything we need "for life and godliness."

Anyway, what I scribbled was "Andrew - seizure May 1 - pm.  Won 3200 conference May 2, 2012."  I remember Pete hesitating with the Diastat, knowing if he gave it to him, Andrew probably could not run his meet the next day.  And we both knew how hard he had worked and how badly he wanted to run.  But then we both said if something happened to him, he could not run anyway.  There should have been no way that Andrew could run the next day.  He could not even get up the next morning!  But he did, and he got to school in time to make himself eligible to run later that day.  He sat in a chair near me and drank Gatorade and water all day at the meet at Lenoir Rhyne.  And then he ran - the next to the last event.  I watched (in turn 4) and prayed and prayed as he went around that track.  Only a few others there knew what he had been through, and they were praying too.  He was so far ahead, but I was not sure he could run the whole way.  I had seen what his body had gone through the night before and knew the effects of his medication were still in him.  But he ran the whole way, and he won.

You know sometimes we need to feel that "pat on the back" from God?  I got one that day.  And He has given me many others.  I just need to be "still" enough to feel them and recognize them.  

So I wanted to share.  And you know it is not about the running or the winning - but about the bigger plan and Who is in control.  Because you know there are many other days that do not have this ending - especially for Andrew.  God's timing is perfect.

Thanks to all of you who help us in so many ways!