Our Neighborhood posts a monthly newsletter that generally sits on our counter and we glance at it a few times to catch the latest on the award winning restaurants and boutiques around town. This time the newsletter was different, very different. It has a story in it about a little boy named Nicholas. The story reads like this:
"Nicholas Shannon is a happy, sweet, well-mannered little boy. He was also healthy. His parents, Chris and Karen, could not have predicted the evil turn their life has taken in the last three weeks.
A headache became an MRI. That MRI showed a tumor, racquetball-sized on the right frontal lobe of Nicholas’s brain. After invasive seven-hour brain surgery, Nicholas has been diagnosed with the worst possible brain cancer a human can have.
This tumor is extremely aggressive and does not respond well to medical interventions. Nicholas will now begin very intense chemotherapy and radiation treatments. His future will be determined by how his cancer responds to this therapy, but the odds are low for long-term survival.
Nicholas’s younger brother, Gregory, idolizes him. His mother will give birth in August, to a little girl they named Emery. This summer promised receipts for tiny pink dresses, baby shower invitations and suitcases packed for the hospital. Those suitcases are no longer destined for the hospital Karen chose to give birth. Now they’re packed for the facility they chose to fight for their son’s life."
Lord we pray that you give Nicholas strength, we pray for his healing. We pray for his family, that they trust in you to get them through.
Please pray with us for Nicholas and his family. There is power is prayer.
1 comment:
Good night, I'm about to cry! Praying!
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