Prayers Answered

This week has been absolutely amazing for answered prayers!! We have been worried non-stop about how to pay for Damein's college and the fact that our insurance is about to cap out at any moment on Darein if she has to have one more major surgery, especially a surgery like back surgery for her scoliosis. I have been trying to live in the moment and enjoy this time I have with my son before he heads off to college but have had a hard time trying to figure out how to take care of the responsibilities on my plate and balancing it with a good attitude and excitement towards getting my son ready for college. In the middle of the worry though, I would continue to pray that there was no way possible for us to take care of our children's needs and wants and just told God that our life was fully in his hands and I was trusting him to take care of everything. I continued on with Damein's college plans and obligations such as Summer Welcome and continuing to tell him that we would figure things out and though it was tough we were determined to make his dreams come true and that as always he had the support of his mom and dad as well as extended family and we would pull him through somehow. We also continued to follow up with Darein's doctor appointments and making plans for her braces on her teeth and talking about the fact that in another year or so it would be time for another set of hearing aids and we would need to prepare for how to pay for these things and start working on a plan to make it happen. Yesterday and today our prayers were answered :)
We found out over the weekend that Damein had enough financial aid and loans to cover his tuition and still had some left but we now needed to be concerned about his living arrangements. Yesterday, he was admitted into a fraternity and the housing is less than the cost of living on campus and the meals are included as well!! Family has been helping with his books, computer, and contributions to help with furnishing his room. We have a few more loose ends to wrap up but all in all what is left is manageable and doable!!!!
In the meantime, I have been calling non-stop trying to find out if Darein had been approved for disability through the State. Getting approved would give her Medicaid with a high monthly premium when we used it to help with medical costs. I finally received the phone call today stating that she had been approved!!!! They are still working on the budget but when she has major expenses such as braces, facial reconstruction, hearing aids, back surgery, etc...we only have to pay about $800 or so for that month and Medicaid will pick up the rest. This is huge as the State has finally deemed her disabled due to her congenital rare genetic syndrome, Antley-Bixler syndrome. This will allow us to proceed to file for disability for her so that we can have her all set up and taken care of without worry of insurance capping out or wondering how she will be able to support herself if she is only able to work part-time!! This is basically Step 1 but such an incredibly huge step that is long overdue. We can now make sure that our daughter continues to receive the medical care she needs now and throughout her life and will also allow us to be able to help our son more while he is in college since he did not receive any Federal Grants.
I've been listening to Joyce Meyer's podcasts and she is always saying, "Do what you can do and God will do what you can't". Even though I continued to pray and tell God that he would have to take care of things because I had filled out all the paperwork and put in all the time I could possibly put in for the betterment of my children I still wasn't sure if it would actually happen but I knew I had no other choice other than to trust God and so I continued to pray and continued to go about life. I know now without a doubt that persistence and prayer pays off and God does hear and answer prayers. I will remember this week for many years to come as it is truly a pivotal moment in our life :)