{"id":118,"date":"2008-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-26T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T01:56:15","slug":"joy-is-almost-30-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2008\/10\/04\/joy-is-almost-30-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy is almost 30 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto-->When she was about 13, the doctors told us that Joy would only live to her late teens or early twenties.\u00a0 But God has given her years way beyond their expectations.\u00a0 So, it&#8217;s time to celebrate!\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Joy&#8217;s 30th birthday is October 16th, and we are hosting an open-house for her on October 18th.\u00a0Come if you can.<\/p>\n<p>We want to celebrate while she is still with us.\u00a0 Joy&#8217;s lung function has declined dramatically over the past few months.\u00a0\u00a0The doctor put her on\u00a0oxygen in August.\u00a0 Yet even with that, we still see signs of weakening.\u00a0 For example, she used to be able to sit in her travel chair for 1 1\/2 hours, but she can only tolerate about 15 minutes now because that position compresses her lungs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We recognize that Joy may not be with us for another birthday, so we want to give her a &#8220;bang-up&#8221; party now. A friend asked what\u00a0a &#8220;bang-up&#8221; party looks like for Joy.\u00a0 It means\u00a0balloons &#8230;.\u00a0friends\u00a0&#8230;.\u00a0singing &#8230;.\u00a0simple.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray that this party will be fun for Joy.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for wisdom and strength\u00a0as we prepare for it.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for Dave and I to have contentment in God&#8217;s plan for Joy. As she declines, we have adjustments nearly every week, and that has been difficult.\u00a0 It seems that just when we think we are on track for handling one thing,\u00a0there is another setback.<\/li>\n<li>Praise God for hope.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done a lot of reading lately about whether infants and disabled who die go to Heaven, considering the fact that all have inherited Adam&#8217;s sin nature.\u00a0 While Scripture does not give definitive answers, it does give God&#8217;s character.\u00a0 He has great mercy, and in the person of Christ, He\u00a0showed\u00a0great love for children.\u00a0 So we have great hope in Him, and believe Joy&#8217;s future is as bright as Heaven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Joy was about 13, the doctors had grave news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-joy","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}