Your Chance To Make A Difference

“Children make your life important.”

–     Erma Bombeck

She’s 8 years old.

It started as a sinus infection, and then, this daughter of a good friend and co-worker found herself in brain surgery for more than five hours on Thursday.  The infection, it seems, had spread to her brain.

As important as my Faith is to me, it is times like these that challenge my Faith.  How can this happen to a little girl?  How can this happen to a loving, happy, cheerful little girl in a good home, with exceptional health care — I just don’t get it.  I could list a couple dozen people who deserve some sort of hardship — granted that’s not my call, but you get my point — some really rotten people who inflict harm and hurt and ickiness on the planet every day.  Why doesn’t this crap happen to them?

But I am reminded, by that same Faith, that it is not ours to understand.  It is ours to trust.  To know that His hand is in everything.  It is ours to pray that Lilly will be ok.  To pray that she’ll clear this critical, two-day period of time that will determine her future, and by extension, the future of everyone she will touch.  Everyone she has touched.

So, if it is our responsibility to pray, I am asking that you do just that.  For Lilly.  For her family.  (Side note:  I pray thankfully that I have never sat in Lilly’s parents place, and hopefully that I never will, and optimistically that He will bring about great things for this family by their trial…)

She’s 8 years old.  Pray for her, her doctors, her parents, her two brothers and for all who have been touched, are touched and will be touched by this precious child.

It will make a difference.