The idea behind it is to have a 'box' of tangible items that remind you of what God has done in your life. It's so easy to forget how He carries us through. When we look back at each item in the box we will be reminded of Gods faithfulnes.
So here it is...the first item to be in our box will be a fantastic reminder of this...
When I was pregnant with Raya we had many ultrasounds. We were told, and shown, that she had a two vessel umbilical cord instead of three. We went often to make sure she was growing and getting everything she needed. Each time, the specialist would show me pictures of the cord afterwards along with a bunch of charts that I couldn't understand. Raya was gaining and growing at an appropriate rate despite the missing vessel. Chris and I prayed that she would be healed and that the cord would be fine.
As most of you know, Raya was born prematurely after a horrible labour. There were no medical staff in the room when she was born. It was myself and my exhausted husband and sister. Raya had a rough start and you can read about her story here. It was shortly after she had been recessated and the Dr was prepping her to be transfered to another hospital. They had finally let me in to be with her and I was still waiting for Chris and Hallie to arrive for our 'family picture' (ugh) before they moved her. Things started beeping and flashing and it was all crazy. The Dr said to the nurse "Grab me a central line" and she replied with "we can't use that, she only has a two vessel cord". The Dr looked down at my precious little babe, covered in more cords and tubes than I could count and said back to the nurse "What do you mean, her cord is PERFECT".
Her PERFECT cord saved her life. I had seen the two vessel cord, Chris had seen the two vessel cord, there are pictures of the two vessel cord and our sweet girl was born with a complete and perfect 3 vessel cord. The Lord healed her.
It still drives me crazy that the comments we heard afterwards were things like
"the medical people make mistakes like that all the time"
"those specialists didn't know what they were talking about"
"that's our health care system for you, they get people worked up for nothing"
NO people, that's not true.... We prayed for healing and we got it! She was healed by Our Miracle-working, Mountain-moving, Awe-inspiring, Gasp-giving God! (as Linny would say)
The first item to go in our Memorial Box will be ....
A Cord.
And it will remind us that God still performs miracles
today and He has His hand on our Raya from the beginning!
I can't find spell check and I know I have a ton of errors in this post. Blogger is being super slow and I don't have time to fix them right now...school is calling...hallie is WAY to fast at her math :)
