Moms Helping Moms

I just spoke with my mom, who seemed to be in good spirits despite the fact that she is now in the emergency room waiting to get stitches because she fell getting out of the elevator on my dads floor at the hospital. At least praise the Lord she was as a good place. But now my sister Amy is on the way to be with her. Please just pray for them and that she wouldnt have to wait a long time. this is getting a little more difficult now being here with all of this happening to say the least. Thank you for your prayers and encouragement.

Praise the Lord yesterday they moved my Dad out of Intensive Care. He is progressing hopefully I will talk to him today. Please pray that I dont cry too much, I am expecting it to kind of be an emotional conversation. But thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers and emails. I am amazed and so genuinely thankful for the power there is in the body of Christ. And the network of strength we can give each other even oceans apart. This morning I was reading from Romans 8 about how all things work together for good and how NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD. Would you please also pray for me tonight as I speak to the teens about What it means to be a disciple of Christ in suffering. Pray God would teach them through what He is doing in my life to help them as they face difficult times. Especially Casper the guy who has his mom in the hospital recovering from acomma. Thank you that I can call on you to pray and support me as we reach just one more for Him.

Dearest Friends, well this may actually work today. But the last I heard about my dad is that the bleeding had stopped and that hopefully today he could be moved out of intensive care. Please pray that the swelling stops around the contusion. My Mom was in very good spirits yesterday even using her punchy humor as some of us call it. Truly God is her strength and giving her laughter and joy in the midst of this. My dad was actually eating a hamburger yesterday so that is good and my mom said he looked more fresh and alert than the other day. But by the end of yesterday my brother said he was pretty tired. Understandable. Thank you for your prayers the are so meaningful and incredibly powerful. We have an amazing God!

sitting in the midst of a planning meeting about Vild i Varm our kids summer camp, i recieved a phone call from my brother Bryan. i knew he would not call me there if something was not seriously wrong. so my mind began to race and sitting there it was finally happening the one thing i feared the most since moving to Denmark. it finally happened one of my biggest fears that one of my parents would be hospitalized. it is the weirdest feeling sitting listening to news that your Dad fell at the autobody shop and now has a fractured skull and bruised brain and in intensive care and i cannot do a thing about it. it was as if time stood still, the thought has crossed my mind many many times what would i do, would i be totally crushed with sadness, would i be strong enough to carry on, would i believe that God was in control when i could not be? and i write you today standing, trusting, worshipping, confident in my God, strengthened by a strength that can only come from my Abba Father. Held in His strong arms and comforted by His love. this i cannot explain but God is giving me the faith to stand and to bow down and worship Him. His voice is loud and clear like the words written by my dad earlier this year with our family verse from Isaiah 41:10 Do not fear for I AM with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I AM your God. I WILL strengthen you, surely I WILL help you. Surely I WILL uphold you with my righteous right hand." Even in the midst of you feared the most Kylene I WILL strengthen you, I WILL help you I WILL uphold you, I WILL be enough for you, I WILL be with your mom and give her strength as she sits by her beloved Ray, I WILL give Amy, Annette, and Bryan and their families peace and confidence that I am in control, I WILL be the one that gives you the faith to fall on your face and worship me as you listen to "Its Just you and me here now" , I WILL be the one that will be by the side of all of those you wish you could be with right now, you cant be there now but I WILL, and I WILL give you a joy and peace that you could have never thought possible to experience through it all. And I WILL open your heart to hear my voice even though you choose others before me at times, even though you get too busy, even though you choose yourself over me. And why my daughter because I love you and I died for you and you are precious to me.
And than i think to myself how could i not fall on my face and worship you. Its sad that it takes these times to put life quickly into perspective but i am thankful for it. I am thankful that we have a God like this that intimately loves us and gives us strength when we dont deserve it, he sustains us when we dont know what else to do, he is the only reason why i can worship and not question. The voice of the Lord is powerful. David in Ps.29 makes all these statements about the voice of the Lord how he hews out flames of fire, shakes the wilderness, makes deers to calve, strips forests bare. And yet the Lord sat as King at the flood, He sits as King forever. And at the end of this chapter explaining all that the voice of the Lord can do he closes with The LORD WILL give strength to His people; The LORD WILL bless His people with peace. The voice of the LORD can shake the wilderness but He can also give strength and peace to His people and that is just as majestic and powerful. And I can say that because i am living that right now this very moment in time experiencing it first hand. i am not in despair, my world is not falling apart, i am not desolate, yes i am hurting but i am not hopeless. My hope is in my Father the one who never fails or dissappoints me.

There is power in prayer and that is why i write. Please pray that some person would come to know God through this, i know this is the prayer of my mom and the rest of my family. Pray that we would keep trusting in God and that our hope would be in Him so we could show Christ to those around us watching us go through this.
And that my Dad would come out of this with no permanent physical hindrances. That God would heal his skull and brain and that he would be overwhelmed with the worth of His life.
Thank you so much for prayin with us. i will keep you posted. he will be in intensive care for the next few days so they can monitor him but thankfully he is progressing.
trusting and safe in His arms, kylene