I don’t usually use take advantage of the platform that I have here on The Mommy Map, but today I am going to. I haven’t written about my heart on this topic yet (it’s brewing in my noodle still), but some of you know that adoption is something I’m deeply passionate about.
Right now, there is a very special baby that just came home from Ethiopia in the hospital and he needs you to stop what you are doing and breathe a prayer for him. Our close friends are his forever family and as I spent time with he and his Mama at the hospital last night, I took a look at his situation and knew I needed to enlist your help to pray him through his current situation.
Baby Micah has had a rough start to life and I could list off his woes, but I don’t want to spend my time there. You can go to their blog to read about him. Instead I want to say, “God is good.” I have seen the hand of God in his adoption and I ask you to step into the trenches with this family and pray some specific things for him. God got this baby here in a hurry for a reason.
Micah is only 10 lbs, but is 9 months old. After various helps, he was admitted on Monday as “failure to thrive.” What he needs is to have a GI scope done and an MRI before they can go any further to help him in his needs. However, it is very frustrating as the hospital is so slow to do this. There are many pieces to this, but what he needs is for you to pray specifically that he will get a GI scope and an MRI done BEFORE the weekend. He is in a lot of pain and needs to eat, but eating causes the pain. It’s a vicious cycle that he desperately needs fixed.
Also, please pray for his parents. They are relying on the Lord, but are weary. Pray for clarity of thought in the midst of their tiredness. Pray for Micah’s two older sisters as they find their place in the midst of Mama and Daddy being at the hospital.
If every one of us lifted up even just one prayer–imagine where that would take Baby Micah. God’s got something special in mind for this child. Be a part of that…
Will pray! Thanks for the update.
We are joining the prayer warriors. Thanks for sharing!