In my favorite poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay, he reminds us that like the seasons of nature, life is one season melting into another, and quickly fading away. This is my attempt to document each season in my life and my family.

Praise God!

Filed under: Prayer Request, Videos — Rachel at 10:15 pm on Wednesday, April 2, 2008

I am too exhausted and sick to write a proper post, but I wanted to let you all know that God heard and answered our prayers. The u/s today showed the opposite of what last night’s u/s showed. There is nothing on my left side where they thought they could have saw an ectopic pregnancy, and there is now a pregnancy in my uterus. I don’t have to make a heartbreaking decision concerning an ectopic pregnancy. Praise You, Jesus! The bad news is that they said the pregnancy did not appear to be healthy. He told me he expects me to lose the baby. I go back Friday to have my hormone levels checked again. Please continue to pray. I will post a proper blog post tomorrow. I need to sleep right now. Thank you, Friends, for lifting me and my baby up in prayer.

Please Pray

Filed under: Prayer Request — Rachel at 11:54 pm on Tuesday, April 1, 2008

I’ve had a long and tiring day today. I’ve had a great deal of pain all day long. I thought this morning that I was miscarrying for sure, but, when I called my doctor, he said my hcg (pregnancy hormone) levels had went up. He said I was still pregnant, and he was worried at the pain. He sent me to an ER in Knoxville. They gave me medication for my pain, and did another ultrasound. They didn’t get any conclusive results, but they did test my hcg again. It had went up again since yesterday. They told me that I am still pregnant, but they are not sure where the baby is. They could not see anything in my uterus. The only two options are that the baby is in my uterus but too small to be seen by u/s yet or that it is an ectopic pregnancy. Obviously, I am hoping with all of my heart that it is the first option.

Please pray for me and for my baby. I need a miracle.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can beagainst us?He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,


“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.                               Romans 8:31-39

Regardless of what happens, God is good.

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