Prayer

My heart has been burdened lately for so many people and circumstances. We have had a couple of people that we know loose their newborn babies over the last few weeks. It has been heartbreaking to see. We also have friends with serious illnesses. But the amazing thing to watch has been how God has worked through all the circumstances. I have seen the power of prayer at work in a mighty way over the last few weeks. I praise God daily for my healthy children and family.

Having said all that I feel sort of funny asking all you blog readers to pray for Ben but I know prayer is what we need right now. About 2 months ago a "knot" came up over his eye. At first we thought he had hit his head on something, so we didn't worry to much about it. But after 4 weeks of it being there we realized it was not an injury. We took him to the pediatrician at the end of December and he was a little puzzled as to what it might be. It is very hard and has very defined edges. It has continued to grow over the past couple of months and drop down from his eyebrow area to more his eye socket area. We are scheduled to see a plastic surgeon on Thursday. Our wonderful friend who is an eye doctor (Dr. Jennifer), also got us in with a pediatric eye surgeon who comes to town once a month (we were very lucky to get in). We will also be seeing him on Thursday. Everyone is fairly certain it is cyst and that is what we feel it is as well but you just never know. And the bigger question is do we just leave it or remove it. Removing it would be surgery and in a very scary place. So if you could just pray for us this week that on Thursday we will know for sure what it is (hopefully without biopsies and scans but that maybe what we have to have) and that we will know exactly what we need to do about it. Thank you all for your prayers!!