Well, as life would happen, the storm has hit once again. At our annual 4th of July "BASH" last Thursday, Emma Faith was doing cartwheels in the yard (a feat she is actually quite good at) and broke her elbow, but we didn't know until around lunch time the next day it was actually broken, because she was up moving it, playing, and dancing "Just Dance 4" on the X Box. However, when we were out running errands the following day, and Timothy grabbed her arm causing her entire elbow joint to INSTANTLY swell about 2x larger than normal. ER determined she had a "chip fracture" and referred us to a local orthopedic clinic. The dilemma in all this is that she was seen on Friday afternoon, and the clinics were already closed so we couldn't schedule an appointment until Monday, the day we were scheduled to leave for Charleston with our youth for M-Fuge and we were meeting @ 8:00 am to leave. Which meant I would have to get up and be at the clinic FIRST thing to schedule an appt, sign paper work, leave insurance card and sign over permission for our friends to bring her to the dr since I was the only one who could drive a bus to haul teens to Charleston.
After having to jump through some hoops and GENERAL political red tape, I got her an appt, and we headed to Charleston. Her appt was at 3:30, and we asked the dr. and our friends to call if she needed more that just a cast. We arrived in Charleston about 3:30 and were checking in and getting room assignments around 4:00 when our friend called to inform us that Faith's "chip fracture" was not merely that, but she had broken off part of the growth plate attached to the ligament in her elbow and needed to have surgery. OUr dilemma was that we were 4 hours away and we had to be @ the dr office in person to sign paperwork giving permission to proceed with surgery and no way to get home, because we needed our vehicles at camp to provide transportation to ministry/mission sights for about 40 people, and if I left, then there would be no on else from our group who could drive our 24 passenger bus, essentially leaving an entire mission team "grounded" for the entire week.
SO we had to figure out how I was going to get home so that surgery could happen AND find someone to drive our bus. Luckily 2 of our youth parents, who we have come to know QUITE well over the past year, didn't hesitate to drive to Charleston to pick me up and get me back to Shelby for Pre op appt and to be here for surgery, AND when Artie told the camp staff what was going on and announced that our bus was grounded for the week unless we could find another driver , an adult leader with a CDL from another church volunteered as a driver for the week!!!!!! ISN' T God Amazing. We just knew with all the bumps in the road and ROAD blocks that Satan threw at us in getting to Charleston that GOD had something REALLY big in store for us and we just had to sit back and watch it happen!!!.
Well I arrived back home around 3:00 am, took a little cat nap, went to see my babies, got Faith to her appt to sign papers and schedule her surgery, met my parents (who also didn't hesitate to drive 4 hours from TN just to be here for me and Faith today, since Artie is still in Charleston), and sat back to enjoy some food and fellowship time with friends and family (you know us Baptists can't fellowship without food and vice versa, we love us some FOOD and FELLOWSHIP). After our Walton's style family dinner around the kitchen table, Artie called and told us that one of our teens had just prayed to receive Christ and the she prayed in front of our ENTIRE group, and that another of our teens, who is actually a visitor with our group, was also on the verge of making a decision. BY the time they went to bed, we had 2 new followers of Christ within our own group!!! YEAH GOD!!!!
So here we are today rejoicing in their salvation, yet still a little anxious about what lies ahead for us today with Faith's surgery. Luckily our dr. is a Christian and is known for praying with his patients before surgery. We know that the bible tells us to be "anxious for nothing, but in EVERYTHIN with prayer and supplication make our requests known to God" (Philippians 4:6), so I am clinging to that verse today knowing that God's got it ALL in his control and leaning on the fact that HE will watch over us and keep us in His loving arms, even in the storm. So we are praising God today for all his wonderful and mighty works, and rebuking Satan in the name of Jesus, knowing that NO matter what he tries to throw our way to trip us up, cause us to lose focus or be anxious about, even he, the devil himself knows that God is still God and that God is still on HIS throne and the devil himself AND his demons BELIEVE in God & TREMBLE (James 2:9) at what God can do.
So I will praise God in this storm and say "Jesus Bring the Rain". If you have a chance between 12:00 and 1:30 today, please say a little prayer for my baby girl, the dr., and anyone else involved with the surgery, and that she will have little pain and heal quickly AND pray for her mama to get through what lies ahead. The Dr will use a small screw to reattach the broken piece of bone to the growth plate, and in about 8-12 months will remove the screw. She will not have a cast, but he will re-splint her arm and send her home. If all goes well today, and she does not experience any set backs then I will return to Charleston tomorrow to finish out M-Fuge with our teenagers, and Faith will stay here with my parents or friends from church until we return on Friday evening. I know that "All things work together for the good to them who love GOD are called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). So I am claiming victory in all of this and know that God will work everything out according to HIS will and not mine.
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