Our sweet little Joy is having surgery again today. Her first surgery and recovery over the past month was extremely successful. Not easy, but as smooth as could be expected. She is such a sweetheart.
I marvel at how the Lord has worked in my sister's and her family's hearts over the past few years. I'm so very proud of them as I watch them care for Joy and anticipate the arrival of Linda. They are showing Jesus' love to these girls. They are living out the gospel!
What a treat to have the cousins with us for a few days. I LOVE trying on 11 kids. It always makes me smile. :) Our plans include painting a fence and lots of time at the beach...definitely no dull moments! For now, all 11 sleep while I enter the dawn alone with the Lord. Silence and prayer. I'm thankful for this time.
Meanwhile, gentle parents just a couple of miles away, wake their little girl for a very big day. She trusts them. They love her. God holds her life and His plans for her future in the palm of His hand. He is always good. He has placed her intentionally into a home full of kindness and care. He has given her such a blessed gift, yet they are the ones who feel blessed. It's wonderful how God works! So high, so ornate, so sovereign and wise are His plans.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
As Joy enters another long surgery today, another spica cast, another recovery, we pray. We ask God to faithfully cover Joy and her family with His tender love and compassion as they walk by faith through the next few hours, days, months. And, we trust that He will carry them every step of the way. He will.
"And behold, I am with you always." Matthew 28:20
