Praying for Our Friends

I haven’t really been keeping up to date very well on all our friends’ blogs since we moved, and I just took a look at the blog of some friends that we knew from church in Milwaukee. I knew that these friends were expecting a baby and that they knew that the baby had some medical issues that would cause him to not live very long after he was born. So, I just started to browse some of our friends’ blogs this evening after not doing so for quite a while, and I clicked on their blog. I hadn’t read anything about their family since just before their son was born, and I was just balling reading about their sweet little baby and how he lived for about 3 hours after his birth before passing away. Our friends have such a good attitude about it all, talking about being with him again after this life, but I know it’s got to be terribly hard for them to go through all this. Part of me wanted to leave a comment on their blog saying that I was sorry for them, or that their son was beautiful, or that they had such a good attitude about this, but I just ended up not writing anything because nothing seemed good enough. Honestly, I didn’t really know their family very closely when we lived in Milwaukee, but I still feel bad – going along for the last couple months living my life, fixing up the house and wishing, at times, that my kids wouldn’t be so frustrating or that I were more patient with my boys – and they have been dealing with this huge loss. I just can’t imagine loosing one of my kids. Actually, I’ve considered how I’d deal with it if something were to happen to one of them, and I just don’t know how I would handle it. It makes you think about the things that are really important in life. Anyways, I will be keeping the Evans in my prayers, along with Britney and John Winkler and their kids <www.britneywinklerupdates.blogspot.com>, the Marschalls and their baby girl, and the Longs and their baby. I am just so grateful that our kids are healthy right now, and we are praying for all our friends who are going through these awful trials. I know that the two times we were in the hospital with Isaac and then with Courtland that those were two of the hardest times of my life – the most stressful and emotional – and we were told as we went through those trials that those medical problems weren’t going to negatively affect our babies in the long run. But the doctor’s assurances didn’t make it any easier, thinking of the possibilities of things going seriously wrong. I am so grateful that our kids are healthy. And I know that there isn’t really anything I could say to our friends right now who are going through this, except that I can pray for them, and let them know that we are thinking of each of them and hoping for the best outcomes.