Good news, then the bad...

Well, in the good news, my prize yesterday, was the "Faithful friends" Christmas stencil--I realized too late that the linky doesn't take you where it should! Drat! And I changed it--now it is coming in black and gold--the majority of the stencil will be in black, with the cursive lettering in gold. And I'll put it on a red painted canvas....probably won't get it done for this year--got too much on the list of things to do, but hopefully for next year...

Bad news...well, needs for prayer. Our house in North Carolina has still not sold, and I've not heard anything terribly recently. I've been praying it will be "finished" before the first part of December, but will you please add your prayers to mine? We need all we can get....

Secondly, two expectant mothers...one, at 18 weeks, had her water break/leak. This is her first child. Her doctor's office has put her on bedrest immediately--she'd gotten to 1 cm yesterday, but bedrest had gotten her back up to 3cm (thickness, not dilation, ladies--so 3cm is GREAT news). Her name is Katrina....

The second mother...oh, ladies, it breaks my heart. Her name is Alicia B. She is the mother of 10, pregnant with #11. She and her husband have been very faithful, and have left themselves open to the gift of life...

But this pregnancy comes with some very bad developments. While the baby is fine, Alicia has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Very far advanced, unfortunately. It is one of those horrible choices--have the surgery/radiation treatments, and lose the baby, or have the baby, and quite likely, die. They have done some surgery, and removed a majority of the tumor, and a piece of her skull, to try and relieve some of the pressure...they couldn't remove all of the tumor, due to the location, and nature of it--there were fingers extending farther into her brain that they simply cannot remove. Alicia and her husband, have entrusted themselves into the mercy of God. The doctors--and of course Alicia--are trying to get the baby far enough along, that it can be delivered and be viable. That could be any time in the next few weeks.

PLEASE pray for Alicia, and her family and friends. All of her children at home, are young. Very. Pray for the baby, that it will not need too much longer in the womb, and that it will be born healthy and strong--may it surprise the doctors and all concerned. Pray for strength for Alicia, that she will be able to hold out long enough, and even, God willing, recover from this horrible circumstance.

I get updates sporadically, from a DIL of a friend of the family, so please, continue praying, even if you hear nothing from me about it. She is fighting hard, but any and all prayers and most especially wanted and needed...

I'll be posting again in a minute....but I wanted to get this done first...