Dear Prayer Warriors.
I always pictured my family driving a tough, beastly looking
Colorado family car like an Armada or Sequoia with oval stickers of my
fatherland and motherland on the bumper. Then our second car, -my work car
would double as a date night ride perhaps a youthful BMW. Just talkin’ out loud
here. That’s my American dream. But God writes better stories than I. My dreams
and aspirations are like toilet paper compared to His scrolls about my life. My
wife held me in a hug yesterday and told me how much she loves me because I’m
about to turn 40, mid-life, and instead of shopping for a convertible I’m
shopping for a second minivan. Friends, it is God’s grace to us that we are
most likely going to be a double minivan family soon! I find minivans to be a
slice of humble pie, life with the flashy-rough edges taken off. But God is
blessing this. We need two because if the converted minivan isn’t working we
need a car that will still fit Anna, Simon, and her chair.
Through the long and complicated ramp van process, God has
made it clear to me that I need to fixate on Him and all other things will be
taken care of. God never intended anyone to have to look for a van with the
thought of installing a wheelchair ramp. God never wanted a 4-year-old to be
wheelchair bound, blind, speechless, and tube fed. His permissive will has allowed it and in time it will bring Him
glory. I’m sure like me, God hates the
prices of such vehicles, yet they are a great help to those that do receive
one.
All this time we spent with insurance paperwork, and with
dealers looking at vans is a product of living in a fallen world. I am willing
to wager that heaven isn’t going to be days of searching the specs on Toyota
Siennas born in the last 3 years under 24K that will interplay with a 25k VMI
E360 manual conversion ramp. -That’s all fallen world bureaucracy
that causes weariness. It would make any believer cry out “Come quickly Lord
Jesus. I’m sick of this mess”
God’s active will, means that in spite of this cloud of
complications due to sin. He wants to hear about what type of ramp we need to
best suit Anna. we must tell Him what are going through and lay it all down at
His feet. Its His grace to us that He gave
Jesus for the entanglements of these fallen-world messes. Through it all we see
Jesus Shepherding us through this muck and mire of His once sinless, beloved
world now profoundly handicapped by sin.
Saints, there is already answered prayer and praise due for
how far and long we have been asking for this ramp van. The approval for the
conversion is in our hands. For the first time in months they are waiting on us.
We need the right van, who are we to get this far with Him and then buy a van
hastily without Him. So, can we pray that God will bring this into completion? With
great peace, full faith, and the Spirit’s wisdom we remember that God is the
giver of good gifts.
Please Pray for:
-us to buy the right car, able to meet all the conversion
company requirements and our family’s needs for as long as possible. That we receive
the van converted and ready for use by the end of July.
- faith that God will make all things new and labor with us by
His Spirit until its completion as we depend on Him more.
-Anna’s healing from GERD and her esophagus damage to be
healed with a touch from the Healer’s hand. May this new antacid help renew the
damaged tissue. Anna had an endoscopy last week still showing damage to her esophagus
however she is continuing to improve. The Nissin surgery is still not recommended.
Pray she responds well to the medication.
-the spastic quadriplegia to be miraculously healed causing
her neurological system to make healthy neurological connections and no longer
manifest cerebral palsy.
-that we would receive a new bath chair, stroller and stander
because she has outgrown all of these.
We have seen Anna improve greatly regarding all things
respiratory this year, I’m eager to see where else God will surprise us with
betterment! in her reflux? her speech? her vision? her neurological damage? I
will boast in Him regardless because He has done great things already for Anna.
In praise and thanks to God,
The Currats
