Well, I guess we can’t have all sunshiney days, can we? Mr. Bug took a pretty big step backward today and ended up at the end of today with more intervention than he was on even a week ago. This is NOT good news! The only ray of light is that he was already so much improved that he actually had some space to step backward and not die. We don’t know why this happened, it just does sometimes. We knew this process would be steps forward and steps backward, but we hoped the steps backward would be smaller than the steps forward, not bigger! It is hard, but we have to take deep breaths and realize that after a week of steady improvement, one bad day is not the end of the line for him. It is just one day. Tomorrow is a brand new day, and if he is still fighting tomorrow, that is a victory all in itself! It sure would be nice to have one day where everything was right in all aspects of life, though. Tomorrow we will have another big meeting with all the doctors, and we will have a better big picture of what is going on. We have a LOT of questions to ask, and we have not been able to be at the hospital very much during the day, since I’ve gone back to work and BSF, so we feel a little disconnected at the moment.<\/p>\n
It has been so easy to feel depressed and sad about all of this, and hard to understand why this little one who has had so much hardship and is still on innocent would be handed this fate when he has just begun a new, normal life! Why is God picking on a baby?<\/p>\n
I can almost hear God shouting from the whirlwind,<\/p>\n
Who is this that\u00a0darkens counsel Or\u00a0who<\/em>\u00a0enclosed the sea with doors Have you\u00a0ever in your life commanded the morning, Have you entered into\u00a0the springs of the sea Now\u00a0gird up your loins like a man; Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity, Please pray for us that we respond correctly:<\/p>\n I know that\u00a0You can do all things, Well, I guess we can’t have all sunshiney days, can we? Mr. Bug took a pretty big step backward today and ended up at the end of today with more intervention than he was on even a week ago. This is NOT good news! The only ray of light is that he was already so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-bug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiphelps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy words without knowledge?
\nNow\u00a0gird up your loins like a man,
\nAnd\u00a0I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
\nWhere were you\u00a0when I laid the foundation of the earth?
\nTell\u00a0Me<\/em>, if you\u00a0have understanding,
\nWho set its\u00a0measurements? Since you know.
\nOr who stretched the line on it?
\nOn what\u00a0were its bases sunk?
\nOr who laid its cornerstone,
\nWhen the morning stars sang together
\nAnd all the\u00a0sons of God shouted for joy?<\/p>\n
\nWhen, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
\nWhen I made a cloud its garment
\nAnd thick darkness its swaddling band,
\nAnd I\u00a0placed boundaries on it
\nAnd set a bolt and doors,
\nAnd I said, \u2018Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
\nAnd here shall your proud waves stop\u2019?<\/p>\n
\nAnd<\/em>\u00a0caused the dawn to know its place,
\nThat it might take hold of\u00a0the ends of the earth,
\nAnd\u00a0the wicked be shaken out of it?
\nIt is changed like clay\u00a0under<\/em>\u00a0the seal;
\nAnd they stand forth like a garment.
\nFrom the wicked their light is withheld,
\nAnd the\u00a0uplifted arm is broken.<\/p>\n
\nOr walked\u00a0in the recesses of the deep?
\nHave the gates of death been revealed to you,
\nOr have you seen the gates of\u00a0deep darkness?
\nHave you understood the\u00a0expanse of\u00a0the earth?
\nTell\u00a0Me<\/em>, if you know all this…<\/p>\n
\nI will\u00a0ask you, and you instruct Me.
\nWill you really\u00a0annul My judgment?
\nWill you\u00a0condemn Me\u00a0that you may be justified?
\nOr do you have an arm like God,
\nAnd can you\u00a0thunder with a voice like His?<\/p>\n
\nAnd clothe yourself with honor and majesty.
\nPour out\u00a0the overflowings of your anger,
\nAnd look on everyone who is\u00a0proud, and make him low.
\nLook on everyone who is proud,\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0humble him,
\nAnd\u00a0tread down the wicked\u00a0where they stand.
\nHide them in the dust together;
\nBind\u00a0them in the hidden\u00a0place<\/em>.
\nThen I will also\u00a0confess to you,
\nThat your own right hand can save you…<\/p>\n
\nAnd that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
\n\u2018Who is this that\u00a0hides counsel without knowledge?\u2019
\nTherefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
\nThings\u00a0too wonderful for me, which I did not know.\u201d
\n\u2018Hear, now, and I will speak;
\nI will\u00a0ask You, and You instruct me.\u2019
\n\u201cI have\u00a0heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
\nBut now my\u00a0eye sees You;
\nTherefore I retract,
\nAnd I repent in dust and ashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"