Surgery... and a plea

Tomorrow I go in for surgery to excise the endometriosis that causes me such extreme pain each month.

This is the same type of surgery that almost killed me two years ago... but the same type that was successful three years before that.

It is a new doctor... a man of God who has helped a dear friend of mine get her life back.

I come to you humbly asking for prayer

...that I will get through this surgery without complications

...that it will give me my life back

...for a smooth and minimally painful recovery.

I also come to you asking for your blessings for some dear friends of mine while I am 'out of commission'.

This is "Annie".

Remember her?  Remember those eyes that reminded me so much of my A when I saw them for the first time this Spring?

Annie is being adopted!

It absolutely thrills me to tell you that God used me and my precious A to help her find her family.

I "met" Amanda shortly after I posted about Annie in May.  She and her husband have committed to adopt her.  It makes me grin just thinking about how it all came about.  A total God story.

Amanda is an amazing and generous person and has launched a fundraiser to help not only her family, but another family bring home their child(ren).  It is a 50/50 wherein you get to vote on which family will receive the other half of the funds.  Amanda and her husband put up the first $100, because they are wonderful, selfless people committed to helping ALL orphans.  Their donation was finally matched yesterday bringing the fundraiser total to $200.  With the donations divided in half, Amanda and her husband would just break even if the fundraiser ended today.

But it doesn't.  There are a little over five days left of this fundraiser.  Still plenty of time to donate for your favorite child or family...

...or just to make your friend Katie smile.

It is my dearest wish that I will come home to a significant bump in the Jones' family's fundraising efforts.  Please check it out here.

Just $5 earns you a vote.  Little more than a bag of potato chips.  Think of the difference it would make if we ALL just chipped in $5.

You can also find their tax-deductible Reece's Rainbow FSP here.

Pretty please?