OT - prayer request

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Hey gang,

I’ll be switching over to lurker

status for an indefinite period of time… this is off-topic, but a nevertheless

important prayer request:

Jim & I were awakened at 5am this

morning (yesterday, by the time most of you read this), by son-in-law ,

who joked " I just called to chat. " Actually, he was en route to

the hospital with our youngest daughter, Jillian (having just dropped off their

1-year-old Stryder w/relatives), because Jillian, whose due date isn't until

June 27th, began experiencing contractions at 2am this morning - 5 weeks

early. She didn't awaken until the contractions were 3 minutes

apart for over an hour (yikes! That's when you head to the hospital, not

awaken your husband!).

Throughout the day, she'd been given several shots to stop the labor, but every

time the effects of the drugs wore off, the labor continued on, stronger than

the time before. Poor thing, she said it was a very rough day. But when

she last called here, they'd just collected their little one (who had a great

day hanging out with his cousin & auntie, and was babbity-bab-babbling to

them all about it, hee hee).

So, Jillian was discharged & allowed to go home, but with strict orders to

be confined to bed, & not lift her 26-pound son (who so dearly does love to

be picked up and held and carried and cuddled… or should I say

hoisted? Ha!), which means I am leaving ASAP (yes, I know, after just

returning Sunday night from being out there for the weekend!) to help out, as

has precious little vacation time at the new church job he's just

taken.

My asthma is unfortunately currently an

issue, so I'm hoping that won’t interfere too much with all that needs to

be done (I haven’t finished packing yet… yikes!) The ENT has

provided me with a Rx epipen, syringes, a vial of allergy yuck, and since they

knew this day was coming, I’ve been trained by them to give myself

injections (ew). If you happen to think of it, please pray for travel safety

during my 8+ hours on the road (I’m really feeling whipped), but

e-s-p-e-c-i-a-l-l-y pray for everything to work out for Jillian, , Stryder

& Indiana Brown.

Jim will fly out when the baby finally

does decide to make an appearance.

Love (and many thanks if you’ve read this far),

Maureen