Our little Quiet Girl needs more prayers!

First the good news: Eleonora weighs 3 pounds and 12 ounces and the mild eye problem that they have been watching is improving. She is 11 weeks old and has only had a few of the complications of so many preemies. The Dr. and nurses and parents continue to watch her closely as there are a few things needing prayer and possible intervention. In a short time she will need a surgery for a hernia ~ so very common in preemies.
Tomorrow Eleonora will be transported over to the Children's Hospital next door for tests on her swallowing since she not been able to take very much from the bottle and because they confirmed that her left vocal cord was damaged during the heart valve surgery she had shortly after her birth.Her eating difficulties could delay her home-going. It can take time to heal, sometimes weeks or months and LORD willing it will heal and she will be able to make noise.May she one day sing to Jesus with a beautiful and clear voice. For now the nerve is paralyzed and she is a quiet little girl.
At first it is hard to hear news like this, yet we must focus and be grateful for all the positive things and answers to prayer. Just yesterday Sarah got a message that a baby born just a week before Eleonora started to have complications and died yesterday after a few hard weeks. Do pray for Michael's family in the loss of their preemie~ now heaven's gain. Sarah and this mom had visited often over the last 11 weeks so do pray for Sarah as she comforts this grieving mom.

GOD can be trusted at ALL times through the good and the bad and many times ( actually ALWAYS!) the things we call "bad" bring blessings we can not see right away or until we get to heaven's shore .
This reminds me of my Dad's favorite verse(s) from Romans 8:28-29...
" And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to HIS purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren."
We can and should TRUST and OBEY and when we can not trace GOD'S hand ~ we can still surely ...

TRUST HIS HEART!!!!
lovingly and prayerfully ,
Gran~momie Ruthie

ps~ Could you please include in your prayers my dear friend's daughter's complications in her 2nd trimester of her pregnancy ?!!!

For those of you wanting to hear more from my heart, I have a few thoughts and below is a special poem to share that I found in an antique book just weeks ago.
Last Saturday, May 9th would have been our Luke's 19th birthday! He lived with us for a week before the Lord took him to His heavenly garden of flowers and he IS waiting for us~I dedicate this poem to Luke and Michael , the ones that are REALLY LIVING along with my other 8 miscarried babies through the years:

The Reaper and the FLOWERS
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in his sheaves.

"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child."

"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."

And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'T was an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.


" And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain....." Revelations 21 : 4
We're on our way to heaven are you on your way there too?