Please Pray

I have a couple of prayer requests from anyone who happens to read my blog.

First off, I have a dear friend that I met while I was an AOII (she's actually my lil sis) in college. Her and her husband have a little girl and a 6 month old little boy named Parker. Parker was born with a rare form of craniosynostosis. This is the premature and abnormal fusion of 1 of the 6 suture lines that form the skull. When these structures fuse prematurely it causes excess pressure on the brain as it grows, with no place to expand. This can lead to many developmental problems if is not surgically corrected. This means the surgeons will remove a portion of Parker's skull in order to make more room for his brain to expand. The surgery is expected to last most of the day. The doctors have said that he will have to be in the hospital for about 1 week for recovery and observation. Parker and his momma and daddy have a long road of recovery ahead of them. I am so proud of Andrea and her husband, Josh, for how strong they are being through this process. Please, keep them in your prayers. And if you get a chance, click on Andrera's name to read their story.

Another prayer request I have is for two families that I have never met. On Tuesday morning just after 7am, up in Indiana 2 teenage seniors were killed in two seperate car accidents. The first was an 18 year old girl who was on her way to school. She was on her cell phone, Myspacing, and veered off of the road. The truck flipped and she was partially ejected and kill almost instantly. This happened right in front of my mom's house. 20 minutes later, an 18 year old boy, her classmate, was driving on his way to school and hit an icy patch on a bridge. He lost control of his car and crossed the line, hitting a tow truck. He was killed instantly. My mom just went on a mission trip with him and from what I hear, he was a very good, christian kid. The community that this happened in is a small community (2 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school). It has affected this community and surrounding communitites strongly. I can't imagine what the families and friends of these two teenagers are going through. Please keep them all in your prayers. I have been reading on the internet that the viewings and funerals will be in the next couple of days. I'm sure that this week has been extremely hard.

Sorry for such a somber post, but both of these prayer requests have been weighing heavy on my heart and I wanted to make sure to get people praying for each person involved.