prayers

EDIT: sweet taylor nicole received her angel wings today (saturday, january 24th, 2009) at 1:45pm. she will surely be missed.

With Hope by Steven Curtis Chapman

This is not at all how
We thought it was supposed to be
We had so many plans for you
We had so many dreams
And now you've gone away
And left us with the memories of your smile
And nothing we can say
And nothing we can do
Can take away the pain
The pain of losing you, but ...

We can cry with hope
We can say goodbye with hope
'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh no
And we can grieve with hope
'Cause we believe with hope
(There's a place by God's grace)
There's a place where we'll see your face again
We'll see your face again

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope

I'm asking you all to say a prayer today for some of our good friends - taylor & debbie and their family. taylor is a beautiful little girl whom we have had the pleasure of meeting at the North American Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome. her story is here:
http://www.shakenbabycoalition.org/board.htm scroll down to "Debbie Dycus"
taylor's health is critical right now. she has had massive internal bleeding and had a cardiac arrest two days ago. she is currently on a ventilator and things are looking very grave. please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. this has been such a difficult journey for them and we hope that if it is time for taylor to take her wings and fly, that she does so peacefully. although she will be greatly missed, there are many SBS angels who will meet her in heaven.