Stellan

Some of you may have noticed the new icon on my sidebar, so I thought I would explain. Last summer (when I had WAY more free time on my hands), I used to search for new blogs to read. One of the ways I would search was just randomly looking at different women's pictures because I have such a love for photography. You might also remember that I read several different girls' blogs that had lost babies because I met them at the women's conference I went to last June. One of the blogs I somehow stumbled across last summer was "MckMama". I have been reading her blog now since last June and I love it. She has 4 children all under the age of 5 and to protect their identies she has given them "nicknames" for her blog: Big Mac, McNugget, Small Fry, and McMuffin. She calls herself "MckMama" and her husband Prince Charming. Her story is WAY too long to go into on here, but the baby, "McMuffin"'s real name is Stellan. She told her "blogging" friends his real name when she was pregnant with him because she was told while he was still inutero that he had a deadly heart defect and would not make it to the end of the pregnancy. She put it on her blog and she had MILLIONS (literally) of people praying for her and Stellan all over the world. It looked as if God completely healed him of his heart defect and he was born in October (I think). He has been a perfectly healthy little boy since his birth. However, over the weekend, he got really sick and McMama (I think her real name is Jennifer) took him to the hospital. They had to give him a nebulizer treatment (which I have given Mak a ton of times). The first one didn't do enough, so they gave him another one. The second one sent his heart back into the same defect he had when he was still in his mommy's tummy. Things are not looking good. I don't know if my heart has ever been so burdened for a family that I don't even know, but I have been praying constantly for this precious baby. Every time God brings him to my mind, I whisper a prayer. I don't believe God calls us to pray for only those we know, but also for other fellow believers when they are going through a VERY hard time. McMama has an ubelievable faith and she is clinging to the Cross right now in a mighty way. I cannot even fathom what she is feeling as she is watching her son struggle just to keep his heart going. So, I added the button my blog. If you click on it, it will take you directly to McMama's blog. You can see pictures of all of her adorable kids.....3 boys and one girl. Her girl is only 1 month younger than Makinley, so I always LOVE seeing pictures of her! I think the part that is the hardest to understand in all of this is that Stellan was healthy just a week ago and now he is struggling just to stay alive. It is just a constant reminder that we don't ever know what tomorrow holds....but there is One that does. I take great comfort in that. Please, those of you that read this and see fit, add this sweet family to your prayer list. They need as many people standing in the gap for them as possible right now!