WE: Unformed

day 1 after surgery

Hello to all.
It is a frigid North Carolina evening here. Raja and I had a wonderful night of sleep and much needed time together. Thank you for those prayers. We came in this morning and have been here all day. In the morning we were told Adam was breathing over the ventilator, and by early afternoon, they removed the ventilator. They gave him oxygen for a few hours, but he is now off all breathing assistance and starting to get his active self back!
He does have eyelids. I had started to just let myself believe they may look very different than normal eyelids, to be honest. I just did not want my expectations to be brutally crushed, I wanted to be thankful for what it was. However, they are little eyelids! They are quite swollen now and the color of the skin looks different, however, as the perfusion of blood starts to travel more to the new eyelids, the color will start to look more like the rest of his skin (however, it could be a little different). They took the skin for the eyelids from his neck skin (all those neck rolls came in handy;). Don’t be fooled…these surgeons are artists also. We are incredibly impressed. He also had a feeding tube placed as well as an ostomy. So he underwent a lot and has some healing to do but he is already showing amazing recovery and strength.
Please continue to PRAY PRAY PRAY for Adam’s eyes. The ulcer on the L eye had gotten quite bad, but they said it is starting to heal. They have to treat it with strong antibiotics for 2 days and there will be a white blur on his left eye but please pray that miraculous healing of the eye occurs and for the Right eye as well.  I believe our Abba Father loves when we call out to Him on behalf of one another. He finds joy in it I believe, our communion with Him, that is. So please take time, right now, to just praise Him for all He has done. In the Old Testament, an Ebenezer was a symbol of God’s faithfulness in the past. I pray we can all raise up Ebenezer’s tonight and look back at Adam’s journey thus far. God is faithful. He will provide and continue in faithfulness and loving pursuit. So meet Him tonight. And while you are there, plead for little Adam’s eye;)
You know, as I (Jessica) look back on these months, I am amazed. I shared on my other blog (soundsofthesun.wordpress.com) and in email updates that the Lord had been teaching me a lot about the verse in Proverbs 31 about the woman “laughing at the days to come”. That was mainly April thru July. He taught me that along with the idea of “standing firm”. But today I will focus on “laughing at the days to come”.

This Prov. 31 woman was quite a force to behold and she was incredibly proficient in all she did, yet she “laughed at the days to come”.
Why did she laugh?
Him.
And then Abrahams wife, Sarah, being filled with laughter at Isaacs birth. She laughed because she was an old wrinkly woman whose biological clock was long past its time and there she was giving birth!
How?
Him!
And Job 5 saying “you will laugh at destruction and famine).”
 Why on earth would one laugh at that?
Why?
Him.

Because they knew.
Knew what? Knew Who?
Him. They knew Him.
Emmanuel.
“God with us”.
God is with us.
And we are told that “if God is for us, who can be against us”?
And we are told that “He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep”.
We are adopted into His family now, so that is us too;) He never slumbers as He cares for us.

That is how that phenomenal Proverbs woman laughed. That is how Sarah laughed. And that is why Job could laugh.
Because they knew Him.

And I had been praying for a spirit of joy and an ability to laugh at the days to come.

Little did I know all that was coming. But as I see how He prepared me, I am so grateful. I pray I can continue to be filled with laughter (not in ignorant bliss, but in joyful submission) in the midst of all the days to come.
Surely, there will be hard days. But there always have been and always will be. And with Abba Father on my side, why am I to tremble?

I pray that Adam can know Him so intimately and that as he grows and these physical aspects of his body grow frustrating or leave scars that trouble him, that our Abba will meet him there. Will you pray that too?
Love you all.
Raja and I were given tickets to the UNC CH-Wisconsin Basketball game tonight! We will probably be the 2 most unaware fans there! But that should be fun.
So over and out for now.

Comments

  1. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
    Praise Him all creatures here below!
    You've got me singing tonight! I just found your blog tonight and what a blessing.
    Beautiful Adam 🙂

    Love and prayers to you,
    Becky

  2. A friend shared your blog on facebook this week. What a privileged path you are on with the Lord. My most joyful moment in prayer this morning was when I lifted up Baby Adam – thank you! The look of joy on your face in this picture is so evident! I feel joy in all this, don't you? I will keep praying for the beginning of this journey. What a testimony your lives are going to be!
    Heather

  5. I have just begun to follow your incredible story of faith. My daughter in law Lisa Veres spoke of this journey you have been on with your husband.I am praying and believing along with you that our Father who is so faithful will continue to amaze us all. "Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her, will be accomplished." Luke 1:45