A tickler of more to come!

This is from a micro-blog status post on Facebook that I thought several of y'all might find relevant.  It also contains a little detail of what's been going on and what's to come in the near future.


God's blessings to all of you who have sustained us either through prayer, meals, gifts and general happy thoughts!


The Status Update:
I am a witness to God's glory and Grace! Thank you Lord for helping me see the many ways you love and care for my family and for me. Thank you, Amen!!


The Replies:
-Sam your faith is such a blessing to me. I'm so happy for the wonderful family that you are blessed with and I thank you for the light you shine here. God bless you all.
-You're blessed this day Sam. Our God is an awesome God.
-that's why I had to share. While the challenge of what we're experiencing as a family would be so easy to want to keel over and play the victim's role, our love for our little girl is helping us stay strong and help her fight, protecting her when she doesn't know to or how to protect herself. In achieving this responsibility, we've come to rely so heavily on the strength that God gives us daily to be able to function with any effectiveness. To be able to witness the body of Christ working around us, taking care of our basic needs, has been nothing short of breathtaking. There literally so many Christian warriors who have been our support lines keeping us fed, housed, educated and rested while we fight on the front lines helping Bella beat this cancer. And to see that Bella's fear, while present, is not debilitating or getting her down to where she wants to give up and just go home. She keeps going and sharing how much she loves Jesus and sharing with others His joy via her awesome cheerful personality...I mean, who's cheerful that's getting chemo and radiation treatment...Bella is, and several others whom we've met who Jesus is also carrying along through such an unthinkable ordeal. I'm so glad that our family's faith has perhaps brought you closer to our Father...I know that, while certainly not the main part, it is a part of His plan for what we're going through. Someone sent us a poster on Facebook that said something like, "You don't know Strong until it's your only option." Well, that's certainly been true and, thanks to our prayers and the prayers of so many (you should see the stack of prayer cards Bella just received from the NEGU foundation...holy crap! well over 100 prayers of kids praying for Bella!) the Lord is giving us strength to get up each morning and continue the battle, whether it's over at CHOC, at home or at work. Sure it all can be "explained" as human kindness and human effort, but, really, not at this magnitude and certainly not with the revelations that we've all experienced. And, at the end of the next 12 months, it will be observing the miracle of a very intricate plan that provided numerous coincidences that lead our Dr's to study medicine, immigrate, get hired, find a fascination with oncology & neurology and gifted hands and minds that will lead us to a cured, cancer-fee daughter that hopefully someday will regain enough of her sight to be able to live the life that she deserves and share her success and faith testimony with others. Not much of what I say here is new, but something just clicked today in my study of Acts chptr 2 today that provided this neat epiphany to what I already knew ;-)