This was my reality last Monday. I will be getting my blog caught up to my Facebook journaling, so bear with me for those who y may find some of these posts redundant. This prayer request was posted by my friends, who really my family, at Restore Ministries. They can be found at www.restore-ministries.org. As a result of their prayer request post, 6154 people saw this request that initial and critical night. I am so grateful for all the prayer warriors who were providing intercession for our family. What a blessing!
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: This afternoon the 15 year old son of our client coordinator, D’Anna Lundstrom, was involved a serious biking accident which has resulted in severe head trauma. This happened while he and his dad were attending a camp out west. He is being airlifted to ICU at Portland Children’s Hospital. Please intercede on behalf of this family that D’Anna would be able to get to her son, Carter, quickly. Pray also that God would heal Carter and protect his brain.
Just yesterday D’Anna wrote the following post on Facebook. This expresses the heart of our dear friend before this accident ever happened.
“The mundane chores and clutter of our days click off one by one as we scurry from one to the next. Some days extraordinary, most ordinary. We are lulled into a false sense of auto-pilot, often caught up in the little details of the day which can over take our perspective. Then, like a spinning, tiny, plastic top, the reliable flow is abruptly interrupted and everything seems to topple and stop.
Suddenly, the ordinary is lost. Life is fragile. How quickly we loose sight of that reality as we are going about making our days, and letting our days make us. Accidents, tragedies, deaths, the unexpected, they happen and suddenly we realize that it is the ordinary that is extraordinary. In the reflection of pain being endured all around, the luxury of an ordinary day is an overlooked gift that we easily loose sight of. I’m committed in prayer to several friends who have for now lost the gift of an ordinary day. Today as I feel any urge to complain about the laundry, the dishes, the traffic, the mess the kids made, the return of the school year…I will turn that temptation into gratitude, because I am reminded again of all the extraordinary that is disguised in an ordinary day.”
Thank you so very much for your prayers for the Lundstrom family.