UPDATE - Hodge Podge, WWY, Please Pray...

THURSDAY UPDATE: I met baby Sawyer yesterday, stroked his chubby baby toes, hugged his mama, and prayed over him. He is beautiful and so sweet. Sawyer is scheduled to have open heart surgery to repair TGA this morning at 8:30am. PLEASE PRAY....

There are several blog posts floating around my mind and heart right now...but, I just don't have the time to get my thoughts together in a coherent sentence. So, instead I'll spit out a few essentials in this sad little hodge podge and be on my way. (Thank you to those of you who put up with me...so grateful for grace...)

New Walking With You is finally up here. This week, we are talking about letting go and holding on while in the pit of grief...and finding the way out of the pit. The next post coming sometime between this Thursday and next will be the last one in the Threads of Hope series. Then we will be taking a little break from Walking With You, and praying for direction on how we can best offer support for grieving moms through this outreach.

We had a crazy, busy weekend that included a lovely Comfort Bear stuffing gathering. O.K., to be real...it was a gathering covered in God's grace. There were several debacles on my part...forgetting things, almost breaking the church laser printer by inserting iron on transfer paper meant for an ink jet, thankfulness for God's grace when it turned out the printer was salvaged, and other mess-ups that were humbling, humbling, humbling...

In fact, it was one of those days when I thought that I had no business trying to accomplish anything and wondered if I should even try to leave the house. Have you ever had days like that? Days when you question your own competence to the point where you're afraid to move? Saturday was a day like that. And, in the afternoon, I drove to Fremont to share about Sufficient Grace to a group of scrapbooking ladies. (I promise you, I am not a scrapbooker! But, I have been spending time with some of these creative ladies a bit lately!!)

I continued my theme of inadequacy...but God's grace covered that too. I felt like it was hard to get the words out, and I wasn't sure if it flowed as easily as it generally seems to. But, the ladies came forward to give a donation and to share their own testimonies of grief and grace in their own lives. I had the privilege of hugging grieving moms and listening to stories of His love and comfort. And, I met lovely women who want to help share about Sufficient Grace with the patients they work with, and another lady who is willing to help us make gowns for the babies in need. Sufficient Grace was blessed with a generous donation and I was blessed by the hearts of these women.

Folks...God is faithful, when we are faithless. And, can I just say...IT IS SO NOT ABOUT US...SO NOT ABOUT ME AND MY ABILITIES....and for that, I am unspeakably grateful.

There was also a baby shower on the schedule this weekend for my best friend from high school, Nicki. Nicki delivered baby Sawyer about five weeks early on Friday, however. Sawyer has a condition known as TGA... a very serious heart condition...actually fatal without intervention. Her sweet baby boy is scheduled to have open heart surgery on Thursday. He is a little fighter...and has been fighting away since Friday. There are some other concerns as well. My heart is heavy for this little family.

Please...just pray for Nicki, her husband, and baby Sawyer. Please...

I just don't have any more words right now...