Wrapped in Prayer and Love

On Sunday, we layed a shawl on the altar at King of Peace and prayed to add our prayers and God's blessing to the prayers Denise prayed while knitting. Yesterday, Ansley and her Mom went out in their yard to take a picture of her with the shawl.

The doctors are going to cut back on the steroids as part of her treatment. Ansley is headed into a tough time of losing weight. This is a necessary part of her treatment. However, it will be difficult for Ansley and also for her parents, sister, other family and friends to watch her seemingly waste away, even though we know ahead of time that this is essential to her progress in beating cancer. She needs all the prayers we can muster as continually lift her up in love. I know that this sounds a bit counter intuitive as we know God loves and cares for Ansley. Yet, Jesus taught us to pray and gave us the example of prayer. And so we trust that God wants what is best for Ansley and we trust that we should be praying for her, constantly lifting up our concern for her.

For those praying for Ansley, you can always find out the latest at her CaringBridge website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/ansleyproctor.

For those interested in the prayer shawl ministry, the group meets at King of Peace on Sundays at 1 p.m.