Grateful & Still Needy

The "Grateful" Part:

Dearest supporters... thank you! Thank you for your faithfulness to our family during this trying season. Thank you for your prayers, every single one is heard and answered. Thank you for your tangible blessings, they help us keep life moving forward. Thank you for your monetary gifts, we could NOT do this without them. Thank you for sharing our story, it garners us more prayers and opens doors for us to bring HOPE to others. Thank you for your encouragement, it helps us take our next steps and next breaths. Thank you for your offers, even though we do not accept each one the thought and heart behind the offer is never lost on us. THANK YOU for willingly walking this journey with us. The Lord is surely using each and every one of you.

The "Still Needy" Part:

Dempsey has ANOTHER lumbar puncture tomorrow morning. He cannot eat after midnight tonight. He will have a needle in his spine, again, with an injection of chemo into his cerebral spinal fluid. He needs your prayers! I truly believe your prayers, along with ours, are what protect Dempsey from all the potential crazy of this journey.

Yes, he typically sails through these procedures. However, there is fear and worry EVERY SINGLE TIME. It never gets easier watching them knock him out and then waiting as he comes to again. No child should ever have to endure such things! Ever!

Our baby needs your prayers. More of them. All the time. Every day. For everything I've ever listed. I am a desperate mama here, folks. Fear is real. Trauma is real. Stress is real. Anxiety is real. Anger is real. Your prayers help me (us) find the HOPE, the JOY, the Lord's FAITHFULNESS, God's BLESSINGS. We need that.

We still need to raise $15,000. This is embarassing. It's demoralizing to need so much help for so long. We will need another $30,000 on top of that before this journey is over. That's insane! For every cent that is given I feel the Lord's fingerprints imprinting on my life and simultaneously feel my ego take a hit. I know the latter is supposed to be a good thing... a sanctifying thing... and it is. It also HURTS like the dickens. It's painful to be laid so bare before you all but I do it because my baby needs your help more than I need to keep my pride.

For those of you who are leary of PayPal or have had issues trying to donate to Dempsey this way, I created a YouCaring fundraiser. Keep in mind, PayPal takes NOTHING if you select "friends and family" while YouCaring takes about 3% (via WePay). Either route you choose, we are so thankful you chose- period.