Please Join Me In Prayer

Update:

I just got home from the hospital. Benjamin was born after 8 this evening and I am so grateful I had the honor to meet and hold him. His family is doing as well as can be expected. He is healed and happy in Heaven, but his earthly family still needs your prayers in the days ahead as they learn to live without their sweet boy. Please continue to lift this fantastic family up in prayer. Also feel free to leave a message on their Caringbridge for them or even here and I will get it to them.

Thank you also to the many of you who have prayed for my heart in all of this. I never cease to be amazed by God's grace. It is truly sufficient. I am so honored that I have been given the honor of walking this road alongside this family. My heart overflows with love for them and I pray that He continues to show me how to comfort those who are hurting with the comfort he has so graciously bestowed upon me.



I have had the distinct honor and privilege to walk alongside a family for the past few months of a blessed little boy named Benjamin. Benjamin had been diagnosed with Trisomy 18 earlier in his mommy's pregnancy and he has been such a fighter despite the odds against him.

Last night his family learned that he had been called Home this weekend and his mom is headed in to the hospital to be induced to deliver him today. My heart is fully broken for this family who feels so cheated out of the time they hoped to have with him. Please join me in prayer for them today and in the days ahead.

They have a Caringbridge site and would appreciate any encouragement and prayers as they try to process all of what has happened.

I ask that you pray for Stephanie, the mommy as she is induced. They are guessing he entered the Kingdom of Heaven sometime Friday or Saturday so she is eager to have him yet frightened about how his looks may have changed. Please pray for a quick delivery free of complications. They are already dealing with so much. Please pray for Ben's daddy, Shawn as he says hello and goodbye to his only son. Pray for Shawn and Stephanie to find a way to grieve together and lean on each other and our Father through the unimaginable pain they are feeling. Please also pray for their two sweet daughters Kelly and Rachel. Pray for their little hearts. They are very young. Pray that Shawn and Stephanie can find the answers they need for how to include the girls yet not frighten them.

I know that God is with this family and I know they are relying on Him, but I also remember vividly how overwhelming the pain is both physically and mentally and I am just praying that He takes care of every detail in their worries and makes any decisions they have to make clear. I pray that their meeting Benjamin, even though he has already made his entry into Heaven is peaceful and beautiful. Please please join me. I am hoping to go see them later today and am praying for God to help me to comfort them with the comfort I have received myself.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/benjaminthomas