Hello everyone,

I hope you are all doing well!!  I stand in complete amazement as the flood gates of heaven are being opened and blessings are being poured out as God continues to move mountains in our lives!!  First of all, thank you so much for your prayers for the medical paper to be published. 

Baylor College of Medicine, the team of scientists and doctors we have been working with, submitted it to another medical journal, had some renditions, and it is being published on Wednesday of this week!  Praise God for amazing answered prayers!!  Thank you for your hearts to pray for specific requests on our behalf and so many other's!  I have been on many conference calls since my last email with the team at Baylor and the team at Life Tech.  There is an excitement that is beyond our world in everyone and I know God is moving in mighty ways. 

We need lots of prayer for the coming weeks, that God would give us all that we need to speak clearly and effectively, that He would guide us, guide our thoughts and our time/schedules, and would anoint each one of us.  I'm praying that God would speak through us and we would get out of the way so that He can do just that.

I had an interview with Baylor College of Medicine last week as they will be sending out a press release tomorrow or Wednesday.  I had an interview on Friday (while driving to the airport with Alexis for a mother/daughter weekend) with the Houston Chronicle.  They will be sending over a photographer tomorrow to take a picture to go with the article.  ABC News wants to do a special on our family's journey, the New York times and the Wall Street Journal have reached out to possibly do some pieces, and we are still waiting for a date for the Today show to meet the family from Lake Elsinore.  This, in and of itself, is clearly God moving in MIGHTY ways!!!  You have joined us in praying, for the past 6 years, to get more into the medical field.  Our timing is not perfect, but God's is always perfect!!  

Noah and Alexis's neurologist, Dr. Friedman, spoke at a conference in Toronto last week.  She shared Noah and Alexis's story, their medical journey.  That was the ONLY reason she went. 

Here's a part of an email she sent me this weekend:

"Just quick note to say presentation went well. The presentation was called the Video Olympics and was in front of 1500 people from all over the world.   What I didn't realize was that the whole thing was a friendly competition of sorts.  There were 16 cases presented by people representing countries from around the world.   There was a bronze, silver and gold medal awarded at the end and your kids cases won the gold.  There was a big fuss made over the awards, and though I generally don't like that kind of notoriety, the great thing was that evening and throughout the next day (today) , I had many people come up to me from all over and ask many questions regarding the diagnosis and how to evaluate and/or treat their own patients.  I do think this was a great way to increase awareness and in that way was a great success.  I am hopeful that  this will make the difference for at least one other child."

I know this is only the beginning as God continues to make it clear the plans that He has for His story in our lives.  He is moving hearts during interviews and conference calls.  As I spoke with the woman who wrote the press release on Friday, she shared how much this story affected her in a very personal way.  She told me she put her heart into the press release and many of her colleagues are telling her that her writing was completely different in this piece than any other's they had read in the past.  They didn't recognize her as the author because it read like a story and had so much heart put into it.  Science journals, press releases....God's glory is shining through in every area.  Thank you for your continued prayers as I know He has so much more planned and so many hearts to reach.  

We are praising God and thanking Him for He has surely thrown open the floodgates of heaven as He continues to bless this journey.  We are thanking God for each one of you and your hearts to pray for our family and so many others that we may never even know about in this life. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you from the entire Beery clan.  We are truly blessed!

Love and prayers,

Retta