Prayers for Health

Daughter of Purpose will return to Shriners Hospital next week for the long-awaited procedure. Previously it had been cancelled. So far it has not been cancelled, but she does have a stuffy nose. I have heard her nose get stuffed with no other symptoms before so maybe it's nothing, but just in case...please cover her (and us) in prayer so that she will make it to this appointment.


As I have stated in the past posts, she will be sedated, but only because of her age. It is a 30 minute procedure and we should be in and out the same day. Also, please pray for her as we send her off into the hands of a stranger for the procedure and for her recovery time as the anesthesia wears off. Thanks for praying!

1 Samuel 1:27 "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him."

Please Pray!

Please pray for this family. We recently started reading the blog of this family. This past week, their house burned down to the ground. You can read more about them at A Place Called Simplicity. If you click to here, you can help nominate them for Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Editor's note: I just went back and read this. There were all kinds of typos in this. Why didn't anyone tell me?

Where Have I Been?

It's been awhile since I've blogged and when I do it sure seems sporadic. Sorry everyone. I just haven't been in the blogging mood lately--even on my other blog. Can't really think of a good reason why. Just haven't felt like sitting on the computer more than I already do. There's plenty to blog, but for now I'm going to share with you some pictures of what's been happening this week. Later I hope to get back to filtering through our Christmas pictures and posting some of those for you to see the first Christmas of Daughter of Purpose.

This week, we've had the privilege of Extreme Makeover Home Edition coming to our town. It has been quite exciting. I am proud to say that we are a part of a church family that rallied together and raised $25,000.28 to help the very deserving family pay off their mortgage. Since Nate was the contact person for our church, he was considered a VIP and was able to take us with him one of the days (other days we went down as regular spectators). These are a few of the pictures we took while there with Nate and a few are with some friends when we went down there together.

The pictures from the VIP day are mainly in the VIP tent because while Nate and I got an up-close look, the kids stayed in the tent and were treated to free food. I was happy that it was relatively healthy since it was Chick-Fil-A. The kids sure had a good time with the cow that says, "Eat Mor Chikin." They also thought the bus ride was a kick. I was all for going down every day to see the progress and was willing to stand there for hours on the "reveal day" to help "move that bus", but when I asked the kids what their favorite part of the VIP day was and they focused in on the free food and playing with the cow--well, I decided it wasn't going to worth all of my efforts. In retrospect, I am glad I made that decision because the "reveal" was later than scheduled. So I would've been standing out there for about 8 hours. No thank you!

We are thankful for the part that we played. We are grateful to be externally focused and to have played a part in making an impact in life of a very deserving family in our community. I don't want to give much more away about the home or the family before the episode airs on March 8th, but I want to go on record as saying that I look forward to the day when Daughter of Purpose is older and we can reminisce about this time. I cannot wait to use the mother of this family as an example to my daughter about how she can do anything. It doesn't matter that she has weak muscles in her legs. God will use her no matter what limitations her body might have.

1 Samuel 1:27 "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him."