Quit Yer Whining

So last time I blogged, I whined about how much I'd been working and how totally pooped I was.

What a wuss.

Yeah, it was a tough week - from my perspective. But what God often likes to slap me upside the head with is reminders of how blessed I really am and how my "tough week" doesn't even touch what some people are going through.

Our friends John and Lucy tried for years to have a second child. They were thrilled to find out they were expecting and due around July 4th. But, Lucy went into labor early and delivered little Izabela Roza by emergency c-section at 33 weeks on May 10. Four days later, Izabela was transferred to St. Louis Children's Hospital. She's still there, continuing to receive treatment for a serious brain bleed. You can learn more about Izabela and see photos of this beautiful baby here.

Please join me in praying for Izabela and her family - and if you are part of a prayer network or group, please ask them to pray as well. And please support the March of Dimes in their efforts to find the reasons for and the methods of reducing the number of premature births - they are skyrocketing in the U.S. for reasons that are still unclear.

I'll also be (once again) praying for what I seem to regularly lose - perspective. It's a good thing that God is very patient, or he would have gotten sick of me a long time ago.