June 3, 2024

Today was a great day. The Lord provided far more abundantly than we could have asked or thought. When we received Liam’s diagnosis, our hearts sank when we realized that he would be in the hospital and beginning chemotherapy on his 5th birthday. The last few days, infections ravaged his little body with no improvement, giving us even less reason to hope for a happy birthday. 

But God is so so good. Today, Liam woke up feeling better than he had all week. The antibiotics had worked. The fevers were gone. He was hungry. He wanted to play. He was happy for really the first time since getting sick. Gifts upon gifts began pouring into his room as the nurses adorned his walls with birthday decorations. He had a few special visitors to brighten his day.

And lastly, after a full joyous day, his most important gift of all came: chemotherapy. Again, we sort of expected the worst, that he would be nauseous and uncomfortable at the end of his special day. But God, in His sweet goodness spared Liam from this as well today. In fact, his only side effect was that he was starving afterward! 

We know that there will still be tough days ahead, but we are thanking and praising God for the blessing of today. And in the midst of our sorrow, He has supplied moments of such sweet joy. 

Thank you for praying for our little one. Thank you for giving financially, with your time, with gifts, etc. We are so overwhelmed by the amount of love and support we’ve received over the last few days. And we are extremely humbled and grateful to have so many amazing friends bearing this burden with us. We will give more updates as they come including how we are processing all of this and how we are doing.