Audrey's Heart Day

Meet Miss Audrey Hope. Born January 16, 2014. She's precious. She loves her big sister. Her smile gives me chills.  Our life has changed in so many ways with her.  We are mustering every bit of courage we have to get through the coming week.  Audrey will have open heart surgery on Tuesday at 7:00am.  It will take approximately 4 hours.  Her heart defect is the most common among kids with Down syndrome, it's called an Atrioventricular Septal Defect (AV Canal Defect) where there are two small holes between chambers that need to be patched.  Please pray for her this week in any way you feel.  I hope to give quick updates in this space so you all can be filled in and so we don't have to keep telling the same details again and again.

Psalm 139 has been a source of hope in this journey.

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.