A Way to Help

Hi everyone,

We are grateful to all of you who have been so generous to us during this battle, and I just wanted to make you aware of a situation so that maybe you could help if you are called to do so.

I'm including a link to a website of a little girl who also has a DIPG. I actually had the chance to meet her and her mother the day before we left St. Jude. Her name is Dasia and despite the tumor and the prognosis she has been given, she is living without symptoms (and has been for over 2 years).

The reason I'm introducing you to her is because her family is going through some very difficult emotional and financial times...in addition to the daily struggles one is faced with when dealing with this medical battle. You can read her journal and find her address so that you can make a donation if you are willing and able.

http://www.caringbridge.org/cb/inputSiteName.do?method=search&siteName=dasiaatkinson

Sophie had a better day. Her smile is not as big...but not because she isn't happy or having fun. We're still dealing with the same symptoms. We are placing our trust in God. My email from the "Purpose Driven Life" website was very profound and inspiring. It reminded me that I need to keep giving this situation over to God. You can read it below.

No matter how bad things get – God is still able to bring good out of it. Today, thank God that nothing – no disaster, no delay – is bigger that his ability to turn it into something good and godly.

· Thank God and let go – Thank God that he is sovereign over your past, your present, and your future.

Give God the circumstances, disasters, hindrances, hurts, and sins from your past.

Give God your current situation, your disasters, hindrances, hurts, and sins of today.

Praise God that he can work anything in your future for godly good, that you can walk in confidence that there is nothing anyone can do to you, or anything you can do that will be beyond the reach of God’s grace and redemption.

· Look for God’s hand – Walking by faith means you see God’s hand even in the most difficult of circumstances. You trust his ability and his willingness to transform the bad into godly good. God is not limited by people’s motives. In other words, it doesn't matter why someone hurt you, God still can transform a deliberate, mean-spirited situation into something for his good.

· What will you allow God to change? – There it is: some situation, or event, or person in your life that, as far as you can tell, was “meant for bad.” How do you think God meant it for good?

Ask God what he wants you to do with this situation (event or person). When he answers, do it. We’re praying for you now.
© 2007 Jon Walker. All rights reserved.

We continue to appreciate your thoughts and prayers. Please keep praying for Sophie's miracle, and really believe and place your trust in God, because miracles DO happen.