Heartfelt Thanks

      I have started two other posts in the last 24 hours or so and never finished them. I am placing them on hold for another day or so because I want to share just one day where I was truly blessed and touched by the support network that has gathered around our family. This is going to be one of those hard post's to write, not because of the hurt or anguish we have experienced but because of the unyielding love that has been shown to us.
     I was going to go through an all too familiar scenario in our household but have deleted it all because this is not about my family this time. I want to dedicate this to all those out there that put their own lives on hold for others at a moments notice. About people who care so much for you that they will get up at 4:00 in the morning to pick someone up after a very long emotional night in the ER with their child, and still go to work that day.
      People who give their car to a family for a day that is without one in order to get to appointments in an emergency and don't ask for anything in return. This is for the people who pray without ceasing without knowing the exact need but pray for the individual anyway. Cootos to those who make a meal so that at the end of a long stressful day you only have to worry about warming something up.
       To the one who makes a "Happy Birthday" banner and runs it down in the rain to hang it on the front door so the child will see it when they get home, and signs it from mom. And for those who bake a cake because a parent is soo busy with a crisis and it happens to be a birthday of another child.
      To the one's who sit on the phone while a parent is close to tears because they do not know what to do anymore and is just there as a listening ear. And the one's who take in a child at a moments notice when the parent can not be there to comfort their own needs even when it is more then one day at a time.
       To the workers who shuffle their meetings and case load to be available as support for hours on end as you sit in a hospital not knowing what will happen next. Also to the teachers who go above and beyond their role as a teacher and make themselves available for a teen struggling with heir own emotions that sometimes can be overwhelming when a sibling is in crisis. A teacher that gives out their contact information for those 1:00 am calls when they are afraid and alone because the parent has to rush to the ER in the middle of the night.
        To all these people and the many more that I'm sure have slipped my mind because of lack of sleep, I give my greatest appreciation that can not even be put into words. The tears that flow from my eyes as I write this blog are tears of hope, love and cherished heartfelt belonging that does not know words, time or boundaries. The tears that show just how deeply I am touched by the knowledge that we are worth this unending love and acceptance that many in our position never get to experience. I am blessed by all the people that have gathered around our family to support and lift us up to God in prayer.
        
       THANK YOU ALL for you will never know what this means to us