Oh! There You Are!

Well we were blessed to be able to visit Aiyana!  This precious baby has endured so much in her little life and is struggling to gain any momentum to advance in her development.  Still on a ventilator and a feeding tube, we were led to believe that she was completely blind and completely deaf and did not interact with the outside world at all.  So sad, they said (since the twins were born completely healthy) - but we knew that God was calling us to be there for her.  She is considered "non-placeable", but we knew that He was calling us there.  Even the littlest one is not beyond His thoughts.

 Amara in her amazing cuteness, kissed Aiyana up her arm and on her head many times.  I'm not sure what she was thinking, but we could only assume it was "Oh!  There you are!"  Knit in their mother's womb together, enduring repeated trauma, month-long hospital stays, and another month in rehab together, they became separated only when we took Amara into our care.  Who knows what she was thinking as her sister was no longer by her side...

 Won't you join us in prayer for Aiyana?  We fully believe in the power of prayer!  She is precious to our Heavenly Father!  And, by the way.... she was following us with her eyes, whispering babbles to us (the trach would prevent any sound), and responded to our voices.  Our God is so much bigger!!!

God Still Moves Mountains...

Ok... this one was an answer to prayer that I hadn't even posted about yet, but we had shared with a few precious members of church for prayer.... but I think I should back up just a bit...

Amara has a twin sister.  They were both beaten very severely... . thus Amara's 11 fractured vertebrae, fractured femur, fractured rib, and fractured orbit around her eye.  Such a rough first 2 months of her life.  But her twin sister, Aiyana, suffered much, much more.  We are still unsure of her entire medical condition, but she is (short of God's amazing healing hand) hugely impacted and seemingly doomed to a life in a long-term care facility.  Our hearts break for her and despite the fact that the judge originally ruled that we could not visit her, we decided to continue to ask. 

I went to the DYFS meeting last week and asked again.  They requested that I write a letter for the judge to review before the next court date in late October.  I agreed and thought that this was my next course of action.

Amara's (and Aiyana's) case worker came out Friday and surprised us with some wonderful news.  Despite what the judge had stated, the supervisors at the DYFS office had made an executive decision to allow us unrestricted access to her!  Wow, what an awe-inspiring God who just flung open that door!!!  We are very excited to find some time and take the children up to meet her.   Oh, to touch her little broken body and pray for her in person!

Please continue to pray with us for Aiyana's healing.  We serve a great God, who does not look at situations with human eyes.  I am praying with the eyes of faith, where He healed the blind with one touch and raised the dead with a spoken word.  He is the Alpha and the Omega and none of this is beyond Him.  To God be the glory!

Putting Our Hope in Him!

It's officially the beginning of the end for the Dewey's in our home.  It is very bittersweet.  They will be missed, but we always knew that they would be only with us for a season.  We are down to a countdown of two to four weeks until the mother's housing is approved and she is given a move-in date.  They will continue to be in our prayers as a family.

Amara has a meeting coming up to discuss permanency!  We have no idea what this meeting will hold, but thankfully we know Who holds the outcome in His hands.  In this horrible, shaky world we live in, I am so thankful to have a personal relationship with the One who holds the universe in His palm, yet loved us enough to come down to our level to allow us to fellowship with Him.  What an awesome God we serve!

We will share the news from the meeting and look forward to the others that God will bring through our home.