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quinta-feira, 7 de maio de 2009
Prayer request
Please pray for little Noah who's dealing with some really difficult health issues. You can read his mama's blog here.
segunda-feira, 14 de julho de 2008
Little cousin
I received the saddest news from Brazil already some time ago. My husband's cousin's little son was diagnosed with Werdning-Hoffman desease, one type of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). It's genetic and incurable and the life expectancy for children his age (now 7 months) is usually less than two years. He was diagnosed with the type I SMA and this means he will probably never even sit by himself. There is more information on the condition here.
A local newspaper published an article with the cutest picture of the little one. You can see that here. My husband told me the whole town is contributing in one way or another. Currently family and friends are building a new room for the family's very simple and small wooden house. This is to be the little boy's room whenever he gets home from the hospital. He will need an intensive care unit at home complete with breathing aid and everything.
The parents are both teachers and have a regular middle-class income. Needless to say their income doesn't get even close to covering the cost of the baby's treatment in a São Paulo hospital let alone the ambulance flight that will be needed in order to get him home whenever he's released from the hospital. I don't even imagine how his care will be arranged once they're back at home in our small and fairly remote little town.
Yesterday I shared the story at church and said I wasn't asking for money but for prayers. I said, however, that if someone felt in his heart to give something I'd send it over to them. After the service a man came up to me and simply handed be some money. I thanked him and just put the money in my purse. Only later I counted it and saw that he had given € 65 to a baby boy he had only just heard about for the first time.
If anyone reading this wants to pray for the family please do - they're born-again Christians and will surely appreciate your prayers!
A local newspaper published an article with the cutest picture of the little one. You can see that here. My husband told me the whole town is contributing in one way or another. Currently family and friends are building a new room for the family's very simple and small wooden house. This is to be the little boy's room whenever he gets home from the hospital. He will need an intensive care unit at home complete with breathing aid and everything.
The parents are both teachers and have a regular middle-class income. Needless to say their income doesn't get even close to covering the cost of the baby's treatment in a São Paulo hospital let alone the ambulance flight that will be needed in order to get him home whenever he's released from the hospital. I don't even imagine how his care will be arranged once they're back at home in our small and fairly remote little town.
Yesterday I shared the story at church and said I wasn't asking for money but for prayers. I said, however, that if someone felt in his heart to give something I'd send it over to them. After the service a man came up to me and simply handed be some money. I thanked him and just put the money in my purse. Only later I counted it and saw that he had given € 65 to a baby boy he had only just heard about for the first time.
If anyone reading this wants to pray for the family please do - they're born-again Christians and will surely appreciate your prayers!
quinta-feira, 10 de abril de 2008
Arco iris
"O arco iris fala que Deus é amor,Deus é amor,
Deus é amor,
O arco iris fala que Deus é amor."
"The rainbow tells us that God is love,
God is love,
God is love,
The rainbow tells us that God is love."
The song is from the Sunday School and the photo is from our backyard yesterday. The kids were playing and I was cooking when suddenly I heard them shout: "Äiti, äiti, arco iris! Arco iris!" (a lovely mixture of äiti=mum in Finnish and arco iris=rainbow in Portuguese). I ran out and took a picture for them. What a beautiful way God has to remind us of His love!
sexta-feira, 4 de abril de 2008
Interviewing grandpa
No nature walk today either... The kids were a bit tired (maybe the school week was difficult or maybe it was something else) and we all really felt like just staying at home. Luana asked to cut and glue things so I took out my box of paper scraps as well as my box of felt and yarn left overs, gave the kids scissors and glue and sat down myself, too. I hadn't done paper crafting for a while and it was really nice. I'll post some pictures of what we did later on.
In the middle of the paper madness happening in our living room my father-in-law came over. Luana started to tell him how the Mororó river flows and in which direction is goes. Then I reminded her we were supposed to ask grandpa about the fish in the river so she asked. I just took a pen and some paper and started writing down weird and wonderful names of different kinds of fish that actually live in our small polluted river. We also asked him about the fauna by the river Jaru and got a huge list of animals (and we didn't even talk about birds or insects). I'm really pleased that we have someone so close who knows so many things about the nature over here. After all, he's worked in farming, fishing and hunting for years and years before starting to work for SUCAM (Health Ministry's public health campaign superintendency) and he always has a good (and usually true) story to tell.
After dinner we thought we'd go out for some ice cream and the kids were excited about the idea. However after we were all set to go it started to rain. There were lots of tears of frustration (especially from Luana's part) but luckily my creative husband remembered we had some pop corn and passion fruits at home. He made the pop corn and I made passion fruit juice and we had a lovely time all together in the kitchen.
Through this incident we also got to talking about God with Luana. When she saw it was raining and we explained her we couldn't go out she went to her room quite upset. After a while she came out again and told me she had prayed that God would stop the rain but He didn't. She was wondering why God didn't want us to have ice cream if He always wants good things for us. I've had that conversation with her once before, can't remember what it was that time she had asked for in prayer and didn't receive. It's quite hard to explain a four-year-old how God does indeed give us the best things but that His idea of best doesn't always coincide with our concept of best. Luana really likes to pray about things and she often tells me she'd like to pray about some particular issue or person. Now she's starting to realise we don't always get what we ask for in prayer.
Oh, and I rearranged things on the sidebar. My blogs started anonymous and at first I didn't post pictures of our family. Now however the anonimity is long gone so I put up a link to an older blog with the kids' pictures. There's also a link to my old food blog, which unfortunately is only in Finnish. The kids' blog has some posts in English, too.
In the middle of the paper madness happening in our living room my father-in-law came over. Luana started to tell him how the Mororó river flows and in which direction is goes. Then I reminded her we were supposed to ask grandpa about the fish in the river so she asked. I just took a pen and some paper and started writing down weird and wonderful names of different kinds of fish that actually live in our small polluted river. We also asked him about the fauna by the river Jaru and got a huge list of animals (and we didn't even talk about birds or insects). I'm really pleased that we have someone so close who knows so many things about the nature over here. After all, he's worked in farming, fishing and hunting for years and years before starting to work for SUCAM (Health Ministry's public health campaign superintendency) and he always has a good (and usually true) story to tell.
After dinner we thought we'd go out for some ice cream and the kids were excited about the idea. However after we were all set to go it started to rain. There were lots of tears of frustration (especially from Luana's part) but luckily my creative husband remembered we had some pop corn and passion fruits at home. He made the pop corn and I made passion fruit juice and we had a lovely time all together in the kitchen.
Through this incident we also got to talking about God with Luana. When she saw it was raining and we explained her we couldn't go out she went to her room quite upset. After a while she came out again and told me she had prayed that God would stop the rain but He didn't. She was wondering why God didn't want us to have ice cream if He always wants good things for us. I've had that conversation with her once before, can't remember what it was that time she had asked for in prayer and didn't receive. It's quite hard to explain a four-year-old how God does indeed give us the best things but that His idea of best doesn't always coincide with our concept of best. Luana really likes to pray about things and she often tells me she'd like to pray about some particular issue or person. Now she's starting to realise we don't always get what we ask for in prayer.
Oh, and I rearranged things on the sidebar. My blogs started anonymous and at first I didn't post pictures of our family. Now however the anonimity is long gone so I put up a link to an older blog with the kids' pictures. There's also a link to my old food blog, which unfortunately is only in Finnish. The kids' blog has some posts in English, too.
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