Monday, October 18, 2010

A family in need of some prayer

Last fall while I was living in Calgary I lived under a wonderful Christian family. The husband is a pastor and together they had two wonderful children. Super sweet and smart children. While living there, they learned that they were expecting baby number 3. The pregnancy was not an easy one for mom as she had much morning sickness and then later learned that her tiny baby had several abnormalities with her heart, lungs and other places. On May 21st she gave birth to a tiny baby girl weighing just 4 lbs 12 oz. Rachel is her name, she is almost 5 months old now which has surprised some of the doctors, they certainly did not think that she was going to live that long. Yesterday was a very rough day for the family as they almost lost their little one. She is just over 5 pounds now, so weight gain has been very slow. Her oxygen levels are very low and she was struggling to breathe yesterday afternoon and started to turn blue. She overcame that but is tired. This family is super grateful to be able to enjoy Rachel for this long, but of course the longer that they are blessed with her the harder it is going to be when she passes from her earthly parents arms into heavenly fathers arms. She has been able to bless many with her smiles and they have many pictures that captured them. They were also able to capture some videos of her laughing. What a blessing and something that can be treasured forever. This family has been clinging tightly to God through this not so fun rollercoaster. They are facing a huge valley right now. Please take a moment to pray for this family. Rachel's siblings are 4 and 3 years old, they are quite young and may not understand it all that fully.

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