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Elizabeth was greeted by her Heavenly Father this morning as she greeted her Maker, Savior and Friend. Her family is grieving her loss but recognizes the joy that Elizabeth is experiencing. This doesn't mean prayers should cease. She left behind a husband, a new born premie that's just 2 pounds and three other children. Elizabeth also had many siblings, grand parents and more that have been left behind. So while we deal with grieve there is joy in the morning.

Below is something that Elizabeth posted just 8 months ago:

posted by Elizabeth Oct. 2009:

"I heard a song today that I'd heard many times before, but today it meant something to me.

I'm trading my sorrows, I'm trading my shame,
I'm laying them down for the joy of the Lord.
I'm trading my sickness, I'm trading my pain,
I'm laying them down for the joy of the Lord.

Are you willing to trade with God? He wants your hurts and sorrows. He wants to give you joy. You have to be willing to trade with him. We have to be willing to say "OK God, I'll let go of my rights and my wishes and do things your way." Then He loves to fill up our lives with joy that passes understanding. We have to realize that we are giving up only shadows and illusions and in their place we are given riches beyond measure."

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Elizabeth made it through surgery where they took two lobes of her lung. Her baby remained en-utero and everything looked pretty good. Then late in the night she went into cardiac arrest and has been doing poorly since. They took Megan, Elizabeth and Jon's fourth child, via c-section. She was born about 3 months early at 2.6 pounds. She seems to be doing well, breathing on her own and moving a lot. Elizabeth's family is asking for a miracle and we serve a God that is able to provide one. Please join us in praying for this beautiful, Godly family. They are the kind of people that would recognize, appreciate and extol God for such a blessing as a life saved when all is counted lost.

Updates can be viewed at:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121899827822124&v=wall&ref=mf

I don't think that you have to have a Facebook account to see the updates.

Thanks again for praying for our friend. She's so young and vibrant and an amazing Godly woman and fantastic mother.

PLEASE PRAY

We have a friend from college, Jon, who married a very sweet young lady, Elizabeth about 6 or 7 years ago. They have three beautiful children and one on the way, due in July. They recently found out that this wonderful woman has cancer. It's in her lungs and there is a spot on her liver that is being tested. Her family is in GA and they live in TX. Her parents are going to help by taking the three young children back to GA, while leaving her mother here to take turns with her husband at the hospital. The hospital is about three hours from their home. Please pray for this family. The woman is a stay at home wife and mother that loves her husband and babies like crazy - all she wants in life is to be an amazing wife and mom and she's been living her dream for 6 years. While we don't know the wife well, the husband lived on the floor with my husband in college and we knew him for a few years. This is a God fearing, Christian family that believes in miracles, please join us in praying for one.