Life ~ Issue 9 ~ April 30, 2007

Issue 9, April 30, 2007©

Contents

1. Note from Alyssa
2. Article
3. Inspiration
4. Ad Exchange
5. Tell a Friend
6. About Alyssa

Note from Alyssa
Hello Everyone!
I had quite a weekend this week. My Friday was more eventful than I had hoped it would be. I went to visit a friend of mine who has a premature baby and she was having a bad day. My day ended up being a bit scary as well. Read the article I wrote about my experiences on Friday. I learned a lot about life that day. I hope that you cherish the life you have and the lives of those you love.

Blessings,
~Alyssa Avant, Founder, Beauty By Design Ministries
www.beautybydesignonline.com

Article
The Preciousness and Frailness of Life

By: Alyssa Avant

The breath of life is so valuable, yet so many people take it for granted. Yesterday, I was faced with the preciousness of and frailness of life on two occasions, and it really made me think about life’s value.
Yesterday morning I visited one of my friends and their premature baby who was born at 1 lb. 1 oz. She is now 3 lbs. 13 oz., but still struggling to stay alive. Their latest scare as of yesterday involved her ventilator tube that is helping her breath being yanked out and her heart rate and oxygen levels plummeting. She turned blue of course and her mom watched in horror. She is an amazing little girl, a living miracle. She has come so far yet has so far yet to go, but she hangs on to her own little life as so many pray that she will be able to live it to the fullest. We all know that God has a purpose for her and her life.
Later that day I get a phone call from my younger brother. My mom had been taken to the emergency room. Her heart was racing and she could not get it to stop. An hour later, as I watched her lie on the emergency room table, I could see the fear in her eyes as her heart still raced and her blood pressure surged way too high. Doctors finally had to give her some medication, which stops your heart and allows it to restart in order to obtain a normal heartbeat. My mom described how her oxygen level dropped and she felt like she could not breath as the medication took effect. Again, life was proven to me to be so precious and fragile.
Today I am thankful. Thankful that my mom is doing well and is home from the hospital now. Thankful that my 6-week-old baby does not have to live life everyday attached to tubes and lying helplessly in an incubator. I, at the same time, feel helpless. Helpless to help my friend who has to watch her daughter in this most fragile state and not know what the next moment will have her to endure. However, I know that God is in control; that He is the provider of life and that He is the ultimate decision maker of when He will choose to take the very life that He provided. It is all in His hands.
We as His children must be thankful for Him allowing us yet another day of life, with its trials and complications. No matter what it is still life, and that it is precious.

Inspiration
“Somebody”

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you’ve had a baby .. Somebody doesn’t know that once you’re a mother, “normal” is history.
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct, somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
Somebody said being a mother is boring … Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver’s’ permit.
Somebody said “good” mothers never raise their voices somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor’s kitchen window.
Somebody said you don’t need an education to be a mother…. Somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.
Somebody said you can’t love the second child as much as you love the first … Somebody doesn’t have two children.
Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books…. somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his
ears.
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery….somebody never watched her “baby” get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten or on a plane headed for military “boot camp.”
Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don’t need to tell her…. somebody isn’t a mother.

Ad Exchange
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About Alyssa

Alyssa Avant is a Christian author, speaker, and business owner whose desire is to turn the hearts of girls towards God. Alyssa lives happily in Carrollton, Mississippi with her devoted husband, Greg, 3-year-old son, Baker, newborn baby girl, Lily, and beloved basset hound, Duke.

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