Praying for The Abbys

Tonight I have two different girls named Abby on my mind. One of them is a little girl whom I have never met but who's parents blog has touched my heart. The other is a teen-aged classmate of my daughter's.

Little girl Abby has leukemia and is starting treatment today that she may not survive. Check out her story here: http://www.riggsfamilyblog.com/2009/01/tomorrow-is-now-really-tough-treatment.html

Her father has also written a what I think is just an amazing answer to why we should ask people to pray here;
http://www.riggsfamilyblog.com/2009/01/does-it-matter-if-more-people-pray-for.html

Teenage Abby was in a car accident a week ago tonight on the way home from youth group that has left her with a broken pelvis and a crushed foot. She had surgery yesterday and is recovering in the hospital. My daughter and I visited her tonight. The car her brother was driving got hit by at drunk driver. I tell you stories like this just scare me so badly and want me to never let my kids out of my sight but as her dad reminded me, you have to trust God to care for them and let them go.
Still, I don't feel in any big hurry for Lauren to get her license!

I wish I had something really profound to say. I am just in awe of how fragile life really is and how easily we all can be broken. I know that God sees it all and has His own plans and His own designs for our lives and I trust that. I know that the Abbys and their families do too. I hope I could be as brave. I guess you have to choose and choose again to look to the lessons, the testimony of faith and not to dwell on how much worse things could have been or all the pitfalls out there in the night even now..... I think you make friends who will be there for you and invest yourselves in people who will lend their strength when times are hard.

You know, it is more fun to play around and be silly. I guess right now I just needed to be reverent and thankful.
I am quite sure I will be silly again tomorrow! Never fear! In the meantime, please pray for these two girls.

Loves~
LeAnn