Moms Helping Moms

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