The Power of Prayer

Whew! This won't be a long post because it is midnight and I really NEED to sleep.  But I wanted to say that over the last week we have really seen the power of prayer. Little Eli ended up with a kidney tumor, most likely malignant.  He had surgery last Thursday to remove his kidney along with the tumor and will start chemo soon.  However during all of this it was amazing to see how many people offered to pray for our little boy.  My sister's teacher friends at her school, my dad's psychology class, my youngest sister's friends and my cousin's friends from college, friends and family in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Uruguay, the Middle East and many more places offered to lift him up in prayer.  It was amazing how fast the news spread of a little 18 month old with cancer.  My dad received a letter from a church in Alabama that he had never heard of saying they were praying.  My sister's para pro was at her son's baseball game and some mothers from the other team heard her talking about Eli and said they would add him to their prayer list.  It was mind-blowing at how fast and how far news spread and how all of these strangers were praying for him. 

Well....it worked! He came through surgery fine and is recovering astonishingly fast!!  Now we need to continue praying that his little body will do well with chemotherapy in the next few months.