May 2006 - Posts
This entry will remain in the forums area under Prayer Requests
I have a prayer request for a co-worker of mine…..
9-month old Janis Joelle DeMasi was injured this weekend in a kitchen accident…. She has 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 70% of her body. She was life-flighted to Shriner's Hospital in Cincinnati. Janis will be in the hospital for at least 70 days. Her parents are Fawn DeMasi and James Boomer, both in their early 20s.
The accident happened over the weekend when James was carrying a pot of boiling macaroni over to the sink to strain it.
Fawn and James are staying in the burn ward with Janis.
This was a great weekend! Memorial Day was one day this weekend but we also had a house to get cleaned, de-vined, de-junked and de-dogged. If you don't know what de-dogged is, it has something to do with a little male dog and a house to leave his mark on. With lots of help from family and friends we tore up all the carpet, cleaned lots of gook and junk painted and more. Thanks again to everyone who took their time and gave lots of work to us! Have you ever felt so thankful to someone that saying thank you is almost embarrassing? That's the way I feel! Saying the words thank you just isn't near enough. So, I just keep saying it. :-)
We had a great time at the Amy Thompson run. I want to say thank you to everyone who came out with us. Michael said yes that he enjoyed it many times. Lots of people came up to see him, many that knew him, many that didn't, I know he realized the love and support that he has from others, thank you for helping with that. Thank you! Today, I wish that many more people could read this site. Every day we hear about how much a mess this world and our country is, about how people are so uncaring and selfish. This weekend our family was able to experience real unselfish love and friendship through people from all over. We have such giving family and friends, they took their holiday time, got up early on a day when they would have been able to sleep in or relax at home to come and spend time, walk with Michael! Again, thank you!
People were stopping us and asking what the shirts were about and who they were in support of. One group of people wearing the shirts passed by the announcer and he started reading the front of the shirt shirt "Faith, Hope, Courage, Strength, Love", someone turned the back to him and he read it "I ran for Michael, May 29 2006", a cheer from the crowd aroound us followed. I looked over at Michael, it looked to me like he realized what was said and he realized how much love there is for him. Thanks again to everyone!
So today is the day we’ve been waiting for, for months now. We finally closed on our new house – a ranch with a finished walk-out downstairs. It’s really a nice house, more than I thought we would get or even be able to get. The neighborhood is great, we’re close to good friends. Michael will have a room on the same level as everything else, he’ll be able to get out of the sound of everything that’s going on when he wants. We’re planning on putting a entry door in his room, with a small deck so he can sit outside whenever he wants, with this he’ll also have quick access coming in the house and leaving. Michael has always wanted a porch outside his room.
It’s all great, we were anxious to get to the house….
We knew we had to replace carpet and do some cleaning…
Inside, downstairs, outside, we knew there was work to do…
What we have though is not what we expected! It’s hard to imagine how someone can sell a house and leave so much junk, garbage all over. I just can’t imagine it.
So, before I go off on all that – I’ll stop. We love the house and when we are done cleaning and painting and carpeting and fixing and cleaning it will be awesome! I have to keep focused on that. Still, I just can’t believe someone could… okay, I stop again… hehehe… Maybe I’ll do some before and after pictures.
WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!
Thanks for your prayers!
This will be a busy weekend. We’re tearing out carpet, hauling away a lot of garbage, removing trim, painting, cutting down vines, pulling up weeds and bushes.
So, thanks for checking in, I appreciate your prayers, for us and for Michael! I have to got start my project lists.
I do need to do some before and after pictures.
Here is easy to use info on the Amy Thompson run. Registration can be done the day of the race but it will cost more that day. The longer you wait the more it is. All together I have about 50 people that have said they want to do the run, I hope you will come!!!! If you're a runner and want to run the race, that's great. You can meet up with us before, maybe after to see Michael. If you'd rather not run, feel free to come and see Michael and go for a walk around the park with us.
19th Annual
Amy Thompson Run to Daylight
Memorial Day
May 29, 2006
8:00 AM
Loose Park Pavilion
51st & Wornall Rd.
Kansas City, MO
Events:
5K run/walk
8K run/walk
1.2 mile Family Fun untimed course
Kiddie Dash
Registration Fees:
5K, 8K, & 1.2 mile Family Fun:
- $25 by May 8 at midnight
- $30 by May 28 at midnight
- $35 Race Day May 29
Kiddie Dash:
We have a contract on our house and a contract on what will be our house. I praise God and thank him for taking care of us . We have been able to keep the closing dates arranged so that we can have some time to do some work on the new house before we have to be out of the existing one. Time for thanks and celebration!! I know there is much more coming, I am learning to trust him more. Thank you so much for your prayers!
I have about 35 people that have told me they want to join us for the Amy Thompson run, remember if you would like to do that to let me know. I hope for it to be a great time, a time of encouragement for Michael and for those who haven’t seen him for a while. It will also be good for him to be around someone other than old people. I will keep trying for this.
Thanks again for your love and support!
Ok, it appears that we will soon have our house sold. One step down...
I've said it over and over the last few months, I'll keep counting on God, he keeps coming through. It doesn't always make sense to me, I've quit trying to figure it out. Well most of the time I don't try to figure it out - is that better?
Here is a piece of an email sent to me from a friend, a very wise friend. He is one of the few unique men I've been fortunate enough to know, he writes about the apparent coincidence of life.
God has put our souls into bodies that are much more like eggs than they are like armor. They look tough on the outside, but when hit hard enough they crack and leak and life comes out.
To compound that, we live in a dispensation of faith, where God does not operate by sight. So life comes at us all random, and Satan tempts us to believe that God is unaffected, uninterested and uninvolved. What I have discovered is that God challenges our faith with
• Life’s evident randomness
Can our faith believe in providence, when it looks like it was coincidence?
• God’s apparent absence
Can we grab hold of the involvement of God even when we cannot see the presence of God?
• God’s seeming silence
Can our faith believe God is interested when God hasn't answered?
Since God knew the random and chance nature of the life he was putting us into, the good thing is that if we pray he can work through even those circumstances.
I am amazed when I study Christ's life at how he prayed all the time so that he would be able to see God in everything.
Life is only coincidence and despair if we do not involve God by faith.
Michael seems to be doing better with voicing. She said that yesterday his nurse said he was saying mom, mom, mom. I told him that if he could get that out when his mom is around, it would be the best Mother's Day present she's ever received. Please pray for this!
If you've been following this for a while you might remember that he said this same thing a few months ago, he said it enough times that I was able to record it on my phone and play it back for Christine. I pray that he'll be able to progress farther with this now.
Matthew 6:33-34
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
We're getting a little closer to getting a house. The inspection was done today, as expected there are a few things that need to be done; exterior grading to keep water out of the downstairs, a lot of trim paint inside and out and a huge window in the front of the house needs to be replaced. We had already planned on replacing the carpet on the main floor - so, we have some work and $$$$ ahead of us but I expect the house to be very nice once it's done. It's perfect for Michael - and Addison, Connie and me. Definitely an answer to prayer. It's interesting how everything is surrounded by STUFF, lots of STUFF. ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/emotion-2.gif)
The guy who did the inspection is a Lee's Summit Fireman, he was one of the people who put Michael in the ambulance. He was suprised and happy to hear that he's alive and doing as well as he is.
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I answer you and show you great and mighty things that you know not.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, forever. Amen.
Michael
I hope you are feeling how much you are loved. I know you know that you're loved, I'm not sure you realize how much and I'm not sure you realize how much you're needed, how many people have looked to you. I don't want you to be hurting now but I do hope you are seeing this.
I have a lot that I want to think about but this is something I hope all of us think about. I want you to realize the person you've been, the people that have loved you, the people that have counted on you. I also hope you realize what you can be. I don't want you to let up in your efforts to recover at all, keep pushing, keep working. Keep showing us all what you have inside! I hope you see that God has a plan for you, that he promises to complete that which he started. I hope you hear my prayers and God's promise that if we call on him he will answer and show us great and mighty things which we know not. Don't let go of the expectation of the future. But in all of that, in the sweet memories of the past, in the great expectations of the future, I hope you and I, as well as all those around you hold on to every moment and appreciate what God is doing with you and through you here and now, today. I love you Michael, not just for what you can be - even though I expect that to be awesome - but for who you are here and now. I love you and I thank God for every moment with you.
Although Michael has been to rehab and to his Grandparents house… A crowd of 200 was new.
Michael went to church last night with all of us (me, Kirk, Connie and Addison)… it was a family outing.
Everyone was very glad to see him… for most the first time. Michael was nervous once we got him inside… He displayed this by pressing his head forward in the headrest and not relaxing… He was also shaking for about five minutes… Connie has a special way of calming him and then he was then fine.
He shook a lot of hands, gave a couple of smiles, He even made a group laugh… Our Youth Pastor's wife came by and said hi… asked Michael if he missed her, then said you better push the Yes button… He promptly pushed his "no" button. LOL He had a smile on his face. His sarcastic sense of humor is still there.
There were a lot of teary eyes from the other Mom's…. Glad to see him, yet it was difficult to actually put an image with the injury. I was nervous myself about his going for that very reason, but very glad to have him there. A comment was made that I had a very large smile on my face.
We hope to take him to church about once a month, working up to more.
Christine