About Caleb

Caleb and me on his 2nd birthday

When I mentioned my fourth child in a recent post, several newer friends asked about him.

He had Down Syndrome and severe heart and lung defects, as well as extremely low muscle tone. He amazed the doctors by living three and a half years. The most he ever weighed was 22 pounds. He could say a few words. He never walked or crawled, but he was very loving and cheerful. He enjoyed worship music, and would bounce on his seat and clap his hands and shout, "Woo Hoo!"

The time he was in the hospital when he was 20 months old, we were told there was nothing that could be done for him and they expected him to die right away. That was when we were playing the praise music. A few days later, the heart doctor was shocked to see him smiling and bouncing a rubber ball against the wall.

We had many happy days together, and then many sad ones as his health began to decline again.
I had a "professional" tell me I should put him in a facility and forget about him because he would have a negative influence on his brothers and sister. I cannot even describe what a tremendous blessing he was in my life and in theirs.

Unspeakable Joy

Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glory without fault and with unspeakable joy, to the only God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before time was, now, and in all ages to come, amen. Jude 24-25

When my youngest would be in the children's hospital, he loved for me to play worship songs on the little tape recorder. He loved Marty Nystrom's songs. Our doctor and the nurses would come in and comment on the peace they felt in his room.

I was having arthritis pain this morning and feeling sorry for myself, and remembering Caleb clapping his hands to this song cheered me up!

“No" can be an anointed word. We cannot be saviors to all. We are servants, daughters, sons, and brides, but not saviors. There is only one Savior. We cannot have His job. We are called and allowed to rest. God is able to keep His world going, and in the meantime it is very important we do not do more than He is asking.  Heidi Baker

LIBERTY

“Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our Creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. Our religious liberty is enshrined in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The American founders invoked our Creator four times in the Declaration of Independence,” - President Donald Trump

Children of God

 In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice;

 in the morning I lay my requests before you 

and wait expectantly. 

Psalm 5:3 

I have been enjoying some biographies on my Kindle. I am inspired by George Muller, who obeyed God by opening an orphanage in the 1800's in Bristol, England, caring for 10,000 children in his lifetime. He trusted God to provide, and never tried to raise money himself, and God did provide.

His faith that God would provide for the orphans, was the same faith that assured him that he was a child of God, forgiven, on the basis of God's promises in His Word in John 3:16.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, 

that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.