God is so good!

We serve such a faithful God! Last night, my sweet hubby and I were sitting in front of the computer looking at airfares, hotels, etc. and seeing the price for each grow by leaps and bounds. We just kept saying that we have no idea how this will work out, but God is going to have to show up in a HUGE way if this trip is His will.

Don't you know that He did show up!! Today, a huge mountain was moved right before our eyes. The details of this gigantic miracle aren't important (I don't want anyone to get embarrassed), but the Lord used some faithful servants to pour His mercy into our family.

Later in the day, I had my first phone call with a sweet girl that is our assigned "Guest Relations Liaison." She works for the hospital and her job is to make us getting there affordable and easy. She had tons of ideas for economical flights. Did you know that people with unused airline miles can donate them to several airlines and those are turned around and used for children traveling out of state for medical treatment? I had no idea!! I have started filling out applications to see if we could get approved for any of these programs.

Jackie also told me that I should stop looking at the web site rates for local hotels. Their hospital works with almost 50 hotels and she can get us a rate that is almost half off for some of the hotels. We need to pick the hotels we are most interested in and she will get us a decent rate.

Minutes after Jackie called with the hopeful travel news, I had my first conversation with our assigned Urology nurse. She already received all of Ashley's records and she wanted to go over some things with me. She did warn me that their team will more than likely repeat most of the tests Ashley has already had done in Florida. She said, these are such sensitive tests and the technique one person uses can change the results. Their Doctors prefer to govern the tests and results. I completely understand this in theory, but it adds a burden of more testing for poor Ashley.

I have to admit I had my first panic attack last night. Well, not really, but my heart was heavy. I just kept telling the Lord that I need Him to work this out because this mountain seems far to big for us to move on our own. There were many tears shed today over His faithfulness.

I know that some of you that read this blog are friends of ours, some are family, some hoped over here from the Rejoice Ministries website and some may have just stumbled to this blog on accident. Whatever the reason I want each of you to know that God cares about each of you just like He cares about us. If you have a trial that is tearing your heart out, give it to Him. He has promised that He will not leave us and He wants to carry us when our load seems to great.

I am thankful that He chose to only have us wait 12 hours before He sent the people that brought some answers to the many questions we had yesterday. We have other things going on in our lives that remain unanswered after many, many months. If you are also patiently waiting on Him, continue to do so. Then, when He shows up in a big way, shout it from the roof-tops (or the blogs in our case. :) )

Trusting in Him,

Lori