The Greatest Gift

As mentioned in previous blogs, I have asked you to pray for the Crowe family, whose 4 year old son has been battling tumors on his brain. Precious Noah left our earth yesterday to begin his eternal life with God. I can hardly see the screen as I request your prayers over this sweet family. I could type paragraph after paragraph about how this makes me feel, how my heart hurts, what I want for their family, how we can pray for this family, and Gods sovereignty. But holding true to the promises that God goes before us, God walks with us, and Gods plan is perfect, I ask you to just pray continuously for the Crowe family. In my darkest days of losing Harrison when I did not know what to pray, when I did not know how to pray, and when I had no strength to lift my heart to pray, the prayers of others carried me through. The consistent outpouring of prayer at the Lords feet over my family brought us to today. I am forever thankful for those people in my life. So often when heartache strikes those removed from the situation struggled with knowing what to say, how to act, what to do. And often times the words mumbled from our mouths is salt to the wound. As humans we want to fix it, we want the pain to go away, we want to take on some of the hurt to lift the burden, we want to change the outcome. But...we cant. And our words cant either. Are we, as Christians, ignorant enough to think that something we mumble from our mouths speaks stronger and offers greater comfort than the arms of Jesus? We want our friends, our family to know they are loved. Have you ever heard the song "Love is a Verb" by DC Talk? Love is an action, not a litany of words. So love this family through your prayers. The greatest gift you can give them right now is a commitment to praying for them and over them as they struggle, suffer, cry, and shout out searching for strength, understanding, and peace.

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