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Baby Steps

Posted by Lauren on Mar 31, 2011 in it's about health, just life | Comments Off

My sister is healing beautifully from her brain surgery. The doctor told her on her three week checkup that the typical recovery time from such a surgery is 6 months. He said that this length of recovery is second only to open heart surgery. Then he said that her progress was amazing and that her recovery was as far along as most of his patients are at three months post-surgery. I know that God has everything to do with this. He made me and her both a promise that she would be fine and He is faithful. But I can’t help but wonder if there is anything else that may be contributing to this...

Is there anything too hard for God?

Posted by Lauren on Mar 1, 2011 in it's about health, prayer and praise | Comments Off

My world is being shaken yet I stand on His firm foundation. I can’t even imagine how it’s possible to make it through tough times without the Lord to lean on. I need Him like crazy right now and oh, He is so faithful. A week ago, at Bible study, a woman there told us her husband lost his job for doing the right thing. Their home came with the job and they have just weeks to move. She voiced her concern about being homeless. Homeless? Not a member of my church family. Never. I assured her that our home was open to her family of five if they needed us. It wasn’t the only...

Compel Me, Lord

Posted by Lauren on Feb 9, 2011 in prayer and praise | Comments Off

The pains had actually started the week before. Kyle, then just six years old had come home from school saying that he’d gotten a stomach that day. When it happened again the following day, his teacher took me aside to say she was concerned. I promised her that I would take him to see a doctor. I had already been thinking about it since he had been complaining the night before too. The doctor had declared him healthy, but here he was again early on a Saturday morning, complaining of abdominal pain. Thinking it may be gas, I told him to lie on his left side to help relieve the pain. It...