Retta Beery posted on June 16, 2011 19:29
Hello everyone,
Thank you so much for your prayers today, we truly felt them in a HUGE way! Please forgive me if I don't respond to all of the emails, but I'm definitely reading every single one and know that your prayers are being used in amazing ways!!
ABC's local affiliate, 10 KGTV, came over today and did a piece which will air at 5:45 tonight (I'm thinking this is just local to San Diego). Good Morning America just left and they will air their piece tomorrow morning (between 7 and 9 am). They are each editing their pieces down and we know that what ever comes out, God will use in ways we may never even think of!! Again, please pray that whomever needs to see this story would turn on their televisions, tonight or tomorrow, and be drawn to whatever it is God has for each one of them. Pray that God will move mountains, as He has already done, through each story that is shared.
I have to share with you an interesting thing that happened today. As the first crew was leaving, the GMA crew was arriving. We all introduced ourselves and I went over to get caught up on my emails. The sound man was standing by me, setting up, so he said a few nice things to me about our kids.
I asked him if he had children and he told me he had kids and grandkids. I asked how many kids. He told me how many and that he had twins, but one died from Cerebral Palsy. I was a little distracted at the time and when I heard his words, I stopped everything that I was doing and looked at him.
I asked him to please repeat what he just said. He told me, once again, that he had a set of boy/girl twins and his son, who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, recently died from his Cerebral Palsy (his daughter is now 22). I asked him if he had any idea what the story was about that he was here, at our house, to cover. He looked at me and said "no."
I then told him about Noah and Alexis being diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and a bit of their story, but we were all called to do other things while I was sharing, so I had to stop. I told him we would talk more later.
Because of the short notice of the interview, GMA had us do a "telephone" interview where the reporter was in New York on the phone asking us questions while they were filming us at the house. In the meantime, Don, the sound man, was sitting on our couch and we were suppose to look at him like he was the reporter asking the questions. As I was sharing the story, looking at Don as if he was the reporter, I noticed a tear in his eye. I could feel that God was moving in his heart as I could see the emotions on his face.
As the reporter asked us more questions, over the speaker, and as I looked at Don to give answers, I felt God showing me this is why we are here, for Don, for other families with kids that have been afflicted with debilitating disorders, for families that have lost loved ones to disease, sickness, affliction......this is why we are here, at this very moment in time.....this is why we are here! God intended so much more for His story in our lives than just to help Noah and Alexis through this disorder and to give them new lives, He has more plans than to just reach people who have been misdiagnosed or are undiagnosed, God's plans for His story are so much greater than anything we could begin to imagine. We only see such a small part of what He's doing, a little glimpse into the magnitude of it all.
God is reaching into the hearts of people who have lost loved ones to disease so that He can bring new hope into their lives, God is reaching into the hearts of those afflicted with debilitating disorders to bring new Hope, new Life, and light into darkness.
As I looked into Don's face, I saw the Hope he had for other children and the love he had for his son. It's our prayer that this new chapter in our lives is the beginning of a new chapter in many lives. That personalized medicine will become a reality for the future generations, that everyone will be able to have proper diagnosis through tools like sequencing, that there will no longer be years of pain and suffering through test after test, only to end up with no solid evidence of what's going on or no diagnosis.
God's plans are so much bigger than our plans, so our prayer is that God would continue to break down barriers and walls and He would bring about change and new hope into a world filled with heart ache, suffering and such a lack of hope. Thank you for joining us in prayer for so many, thank you for joining us as we pray for Don, that God would work in his heart tonight and reveal Himself to Don in an amazing way. God is good, God is purposeful, God is in control.
By the way, after we were all done with the filming and they were breaking down, Jeff, the man in charge of filming the segment told me that his wife is his sound person, she always does all the sound for the pieces he does. He then told me that she had an opportunity to go on a trip for a week, so she was unable to make it......God sent Don instead. Purposeful and in Control, God is Good!!
Love and prayers,
Retta
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