Seeing the Answers

Sorry for the late posting this morning. Time has really slipped by. I usually like to type my morning posts after rounds are made so when they are running late then I am running late.

This morning I spent my time rocking a bundle of baby girl. As I rocked my sweet baby, Ashley rocked her sweet baby too (minus the hair bow! she just doen't get it yet). I am trying to teach her how to quietly say,"ohhh" as she rocks, but she just likes to say, "AAAAAAAHHHHHH". I told her the baby will never go to sleep like that but she just shakes her head at me and says , "AAAAAAHHHHHH". She sounds more like a pirate then she does a "Mommy". With all of her growling this morning she has attracted quite an audience. Everyone is stopping by to see what she is growling about. The funny thing is that when you hear the noise she is making you would never guess it could come out of this tiny little person. She sounds absolutely awful, but she doesn't care about acting like a little lady(although I am determined to make one out of her). She likes sounding like a pirate. Boy, do I have my work cut out for me. I am just going to be thankful that she is feeling good enough to play, and laugh, and GROWL at her babies while acting like a pirate.

Last night I began praying that God would please bless the upcoming concert in the way He thought best. This morning I included this request in my prayers also. A couple of hours ago I received a phone call telling me that the television crew would be at our house (about now) conducting an interview and getting some shots of photographs of Ashley. What? I said. I haven't been home in 13 weeks. Is someone crazy for agreeing to this? My house is surely a disaster. The children are surely filthy. The lawn isn't done and the walk probably has not been swept since I left the morning of Ashley's transplant. There is no way I would ever let anyone stop by with it looking like it must and especially not a T.V. crew. As I began to go into a complete panic, something struck me as funny. Can you believe this is still happening to me? Here I go again trying to act like I am in control of this life I am living. When in all actuality God has just answered the very prayer I found myself praying last night and this morning. He just caught me off gaurd because He acted so fast. This is actually a good thing. Even though things will not look the way I would like them to on the news tonight, the concert is going to receive some really great coverage. This is great! More people will know it is coming up this weekend and maybe they will go and recieve a blessing from attending it. God is working in my life all of the time, even when I fail to "see the answer" to my prayers. So in advance, let me just ask you all to please forgive me for my "UNTIDY" home and please don't judge me too harshly if it all looks like a disaster. Just know that I am trying to learn how to live this life without trying to control it. I have figured out that there is NO way I can clean my house while living 700 miles away from it. At least our nurses are getting a good laugh out of all of this at my expense.

So today God is still teaching me life lessons through my Ashley's Story. Maybe next time when I get called and told there are going to be people from all over viewing the scattered contents inside of my home I will pause and whisper, "Thank you Father for hearing my prayer and answering in this amazing way." Honestly, I am just a work in progress and I have such a long way to go. Thanks for loving us today. I hope(?) you get the chance to catch the evening news tonight and see just how much God is working in our lives. Have a great day and God Bless. Trish