Let’s all pray and support nurses and doctors on the front lines! They must be exhausted. On top of caring so amazingly for patients, they have to deal with concerned family members who are desperate for information about their loved ones!🤷🏼‍♀️ 

We are so grateful for my mom being home and on the mend! She is a warrior and a fighter! But we also know, she was miraculously touched and healed by God. 

 I just want to encourage everyone if you have a loved one fighting this thing, just because they go in to the hospital, it’s not a death sentence! 

But it is so scary as the family on the outside just waiting for information…hang in there. 💜and trust the dr’s and nurses are doing all they can. 

It takes time for the body to heal and respond to treatment at times. 

It’s like waiting for water to boil on the stove. There’s really no insta-pot healing with this.  Be patient and take care of yourself and each other, as you wait, and pray. 

Yes, pray for healing for your loved ones, but we specifically as a family prayed that my mom would feel Jesus holding her hand while she was alone. And when she got out of the Hospital, one of the first things she shared was that she felt Jesus HOLDING HER HAND and that He was with her the whole time! 🙌🏻😭talk about an answered prayer!🙌🏻🔥🙏🏻💃🏼When I called her today to get permission to post her story and share about her experience holding Jesus’ hand, she began to cry and said “Of course. I did, I kept feeling His fingers and hand, holding my hands. It was wonderful.” 

Yes, healing is GREAT, but knowing she felt His comfort was such a huge gift to us all. And obviously to her. ❤️🙌🏻

Being so alone and isolated, in a hospital room, only seeing people through their goggles and mask, I can imagine can be so scary. 

So, would you all pause for just a moment, and pray that every person in a hospital bed across the world would sense and feel Jesus with them, holding their hand.

🗣🙏🏻 👏🏼🤚🏽❤️😍

Wouldn’t it be amazing the stories and miracles we will hear of people’s encounter with God in the most tangible way, in probably the scariest moment of their life alone in a hospital room. 

And so Lord Jesus, we cry out now as your people for everyone struggling with Covid, in or out of the hospital, that they can sense you surrounding them with your everlasting love and holding their hand in this isolating time! God we cry out that this will be a miraculous experience for so many! Knowing they are NOT alone even when no one is with them.

Hold their hand Lord, please. Amen!

A few tangible lessons we learned through this experience, and our 2cents to pass along:

•If you have a family member in the hospital, have only one family member be the contact to the hospital staff. Don’t inundate the staff with four family members calling each day. (A Dr. friend gave us that advice and it really helped!)

•If/when the patient can talk, facetime them. Seeing us mask-less helped comfort my mom. But be prepared for oxygen masks, etc.. we tried to make her laugh a bit too😂🤷🏼‍♀️

•If it’s your parents in the hospital, be prepared to find care/help for them when they get home, if you can not do day to day care/cooking for whatever reason. However, fair warning, no caregiving agency (that I’m aware of), will go into the house until they have negative Covid test. Which is basically impossible to get right out of the hospital. We thankfully have amazing support from local people that were willing and able to go in and help our parents. By the grace of God…😭🙌🏻

•Be as gracious as you can with your other family members, everyone is doing their best as they try to navigate this. 

•On top of that, be as gracious as you can with yourself, you’ve most likely never had to navigate not being able to see a loved one when they probably needed you the most. This can be gut wrenching. So be patient and kind with yourself too. 

•If you are the friend of someone with a loved one suffering, reach out and pray for them often. Sometimes just knowing people are praying was all that we needed to get through that moment.

At the end of the day, we lean in and press in on the sovereignty of God. And trust all of our days are numbered and He has us in the palm of His hand. 💜 we do what we can, and leave it in His hands with each prayer. I literally visualized handing the concern to Him. It helped💜

And for the love of all things holy, memorize the serenity prayer and say it 50 times a day if you have too!

God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change(our loved ones health), the courage to change the things we can(how we navigate this season with grace and grit), and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen.

A few scriptures to encourage us all:

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Isaiah 41:10 NIV

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”

Isaiah 43:2 NIV

“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”

Jeremiah 31:3 NIV

Thanks for being my people. You are not alone. 

Grateful.

Love you all,