InGodsHands2008
We are here to help those who need our prayers & support. So many in the world today need help & just have no where to turn. We hope that by building this web site many people will all join together & pray & help keep Gods word going strong to help all in need. That is all that he asked for. Surely we can all do that much for him. My family alone has gone through so many trials, but we have total faith & with our faith we have over come those trials. We as well know there will be many more to come. But as my mom has always told me, If God leads me to it He will lead me through it And he will, Praise the Lord !!!!!!!!! In this world that we are in right now we have no clue where we are headed. But we do know that it is not looking good at this point. If something is not done fast so many are loosing their jobs, homes & the life they have known. But so many do not care about others, they only care about what happens to them. Again that is not what the Lord wants. That is where we have to come in & help all we can. My family alone like I said has been through so much as I am sure yours has too. My oldest son Thank God came home from the Iraq war alive & now is in college with his GI bill & student loans. We have a set of twin boys that are 25 years old & one of them was born with arthrogryposismultiplexconjenta & the other twin at birth was fine until at the age of 16 they found that he has a touch of the same disorder in his back. Keith the twin that was born with this is one of the Greatest gifts God could of gave to our family. He has been such a blessing. He has had a very rough time through out his life but he thanks God everyday for everything he has & everything he can do. Keith is very limited on what he can do for as the way he was born has left him deformed. He once told someone that there was nothing wrong with him he just could not walk. Keith will never be able to walk here on earth & he will never even be able to take a can of pop out of the refrigerator . Nor will he ever be able to get his ownself out of bed nor go to the bathrooom alone either. But all this time Keith will be the first to tell you not to loose your faith. Later in this posting as I go on I will share more about Keith with you. Then 16 years later God decides it is time for me to have another blessing. I was oh so scared since knowing what had happened to Keith just maybe could happen again to another baby. Thank God Cole was born in 1999 perfectly healty. Now we have 4 wonderful boys. God is Great. Then when Cole was 4 months old my husbands mother died of brain cancer. That made me feel like God had gave us Cole to help us cope with what had just happened in our life. The loss that we had just had was like a knife in the heart. Then about 2 years later I find out that for some odd reason I am pregnant again, come on now, 5 kids. Well the Lord is blessing us again. This time it was a little girl. After 4 boys whom would of ever thought a girl was even possible. We sure did not. Well right before Bailey was born in 2002 Keith had to have a major surgery & thank God he made it through, then here comes Bailey 8 days later. What a beautiful healty little girl. I had always been a daddys girl & had said if I was ever going to have a little girl I would have wanted to while my dad could have seen her & held her. Bailey was 4 months old & my dad died of copd & I felt like part of me had just died too. Then just a few months later was when our oldest son went into the military & then off to the war when it had just first started. All of that time I never lost my faith. It just goes to show you how strong a persons faith can be & what God can lead us through & as they say CARRY US THROUGH !!!!!!!! My husband & I have been married for 28 years & have been through a lot of tough times that had nothing to do with the children. I was 15 when I got married & no I was not pregnant & he was 19. We never had a lot of money & most of the time no money. He worked all of the time to support our family that I have to give him but he also as well went through a drinking stage. That is one stage that I myself never went through but I think that was because my dad was an alcoholic & I spent many a nights sitting on his lap just to keep him from getting up & fighting with my mom. I knew he would not make me get off of his lap for as I was his little girl. So that I think is why I never like even the smell of alcohol. So we went through that stage of our marriage & we had oh so many more. There were the drug years that we both had. Thank God he stopped those fast. We were both headed down the wrong path & for Gods sake we had our 3 boys & one that needed very special attention. We got over that hurdle & to only find ourselfs in such financial trouble that we did not how we were going to get out of it. My husband being the best in our whole state at what he does we decided to open our own business & all we had was $300.00 & his reputation . Well that has carried us through almost 16 years of being in business now & the Lord as our backer. We never had anyone that we could just borrow money from & we sure did not have the credit to get a loan. Through out all of this time in this 28 years we have never taken our family on a vacation nor have we had the chance to even go on a honeymoon still to this day. But God has been good to us & I thank him everyday for the things that we do have & the things that we have been able to do. People have asked me how can you keep a smile on your face ? Well I know the Lord is with my family & I so why should I not ? Just this past October we were blessed with another beautiful granddaughter. This makes 4 granddaughters now, Praise God !!!!!!!!! Seems kinda funny to have grandkids the same age as our youngest. But it is great. During all of this time in these 28 years as you can read there has been many hurdles to over come & so many that I have not even wrote about, like the many surgeries that our son has had to have & us with no insurance. Keith never had an electric wheelchair until he was about 7 years old & I will never forget the first day he got that chair. We lived with Steves mom & dad & we took Keith out in the front yard to let him learn how to drive his wheelchair. He had always been caried around or pushed in a wheelchair. Having no control over where he went on his own & he went around this big tree that was in their front yard over & over & as we watched him he just was looking at this tree & he said look , this tree is so beautiful it has such pretty color & he tried to get close enough to feel it on his own. That is a day that I will never forget. There are many of them though. Just like having to see Keith sit & watch the other kids play & run while all he could do is sit in his wheelchair because he was unable to push himself. Here is a picture of Keith so you can understand what I am talking about. Keith has never let his disability get him down when most of us would of just gave up. He has total faith in God. Our home is not handicapped equiped for him at all so just getting him into the shower is a hard job. But God sees that we can some how manage to do it. Steve took a hard fall off of a second story balcony while having to work a second job while our business was slow & so it is hard for him to carry Keith & it is very hard for me. The place he was working for did not even cover his doctor & hospital bills. So with business being slow & all of the medical bills building up we had no choice but to file for a chapter 13. So now as I write all of this for all of you to read, I want you all to understand that we ourselves are still going trough tough times. With the housing market like it is our home I worry about on a daily basis & we do not have the money to make it where Keith can even be able to be with the family as he wants to be. It is a bilevel home & needs a lot just for all of us to be able to be together as a family at one time, I worry about just paying the mortgage payment. But we manage the best we can & again I do not loose my faith. Thank God our business has picked back up & it has been better. But when you get that far down it sure takes a long time to get up & out of that hole. This story could go on & on about the things that have happened to just my family & I. But the point I am trying to get to here is PLEASE DO NOT LOOSE YOUR FAITH. God will provide as he has for my family. When it seems like there is no one to turn to PRAY. There is so much power in prayer. That is why I have made this web page for people to read. I hope that it brings people out & lets them know that there is hope & if we all stick together & pray & work together all is possible. Lets just see how much change together we can do. People need our help & our prayers. Please lets give them that as much as we can. Please let me know if you feel you need a prayer & please keep my family in your prayers. We have found out that our son Keith has internal bleeding & will be going to the doctor for testing to find out where & why. Please pray , I will be adding more to this page as I want you to know more about my family & hope you email me about you & your families.We still do not know much about what is going on with Keith, but he is feeling some better. But his going to college has been put off for a few more months. But since business has slowed down again to almost nothing & now the bank is not really wanting to work with us on our home that gives us more time to get all his supplies he needs bought if we can. I am sure that God will make sure Keith gets all he nees for school since I know God wants to Keith to have a great life for all he has been through. Keith has touched so many & I know he will continue to do so. Please keep the prayers going for him. We all NEED Prayer. If you need prayer or know someone that does PLEASE email me at the address below. Thank you & GOD BLESS ALL
