Charlotte's Journey

THANK YOU for your prayers for Poppy everyone. Schuey andNeal, as do Brian and I, believe in this power and they have felt it first hand once again. It looks like Neal is making a full and quick recovery. He is now back home even and we drove the 2 hour easy stretch for a quick visit and couldn’t believe it when he answered the door! Knowing he is still recovering, we didn’t stay too long and brought our brood back home for bedtime. We wanted to let you know and to thank you all once again for surrounding our family in prayer this Christmas season and always. As for our Charlotte, she is doing amazingly. She is vibrant, full of life and energy, enthusiasm and pure joy. She is truly funny, but also we can see such a tender and generous nature developing within her. She often relays profound wisdom coming from a space within her that has to be God sent.  She had a wonderful Christmas home here with her Taylor and Parker and Brian and I. Every season feels like such an amazing blessing,

Charlotte, Parker, and Taylor’s grandfather Neal, whom we lovingly call Poppy, has been hospitalized. We don’t know anything yet but I knew if I reached out to Charlotte’s prayer village, you would all lift him up just as you have done so many times before. I have seen the power of your prayers. Yesterday, Neal was reminded of Charlotte during a part of one of her hospital stays, and he pulled out her picture and remarked out loud “Charlotte will help me me be strong.” This man and his wife, Schuey (Brian’s mom Nana Schue), packed up their whole world’s and moved here for a year while Charlotte was battling cancer. They helped care for Taylor and Parker and our dog Lucy and helped with many other things so that Brian and I could focus on Charlotte during all those months in patient. We remember spending Christmas Eve and Christmas in the hospital with her. And now Poppy needs our prayers. Lord we trust even when it is so hard, when there are no answers or rhyme or reason. Please help t

When I picked Charlotte up at preschool yesterday, she was beaming and told me to bend down to her level. I crouched down and she put her arm around my shoulder, “This is how me and Eliana walked today on a nature walk. And then we played we were cats!” With her little red preschool bag drooping off her little shoulder, she skipped off ahead of me full of joy and confidence. In that little red bag today was 2019-2020 school information and I started realizing that next month we will be signing her up for kindergarten. Her teacher emailed me this picture tonight, showing the image that Charlotte herself actually painted for me in her recap of her favorite moment of the school day. This little girl and her family doesn’t know Charlotte’s story. You can’t see her scars or battle wounds. She is such a gift and as much as I feel a little pain knowing she is about 1/2 way through her last year home with me, I am also equally beaming with pride that we can talk about her starting school and t