When fear is Big God is Bigger!!

Today marks the anniversary of one of the scariest days of my life. The day my 15 year old 3rd born “baby” boy had to be air flighted to a hospital 3 hours away. Conditionally diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, we drove as fast as we could, heart in our throats, tears streaming silently, praying as we never had before. Below I will post my original post I posted once we settled into the hospital followed by my post as I remembered that day today. I felt compelled to share this here though I usually do not share the same things on multiple sites, but “something” said today was the day to break that rule...

5/23/2020

We are here with Ethan. He is doing much better. His levels are in the 300’s, they were in the 900’s when it started.

His color is coming back and he responds to questions when asked. There is “technically” only supposed to be one of us in here... but you know how the Minihans roll 👩🏻‍🦽😂

He gave us an incredible scare and he’s sleeping so I still haven’t gotten to talk to him yet.... but God is so GOOD and our boy is going to be ok!!

This will be a lifestyle change as Ethan will deal with his Type 1 diabetes his whole life, but he will do great and we will be here to help, always!!

Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your prayers! We felt every one lifting us up!! He will be here for a couple days so there will be more updates but for now, we are so incredibly thankful for our Ethan ❤️

05/23/2021

Today is the 1st anniversary of the scariest day of our lives!! Our Ethan sure knows how to get our attention 😳 we are incredibly thankful to God for his life every single day. I can not imagine life without him and I’m so blessed I don’t have to. I don’t like to think back on this much because even waking up paralyzed from the chest down, I never felt so helpless as I did sitting there waiting to get the call from that pilot as we raced the three hours towards the hospital. If it weren’t for the hospital in that small town having a quick thinking dr who diagnosed Ethan almost immediately and a helicopter outside waiting, things could have turned out a lot different.

I talk about my faith often. It is at the center of all that is me. Interwoven in my soul, my life’s blood. There are many times in my life (especially in the last 10 years or so) I can say, with complete certainty, if not for my faith in God and his plan, I do not know how I would have held it together. If I didn’t believe that God was using every single situation for my good (yes even the tragedy) and his glory, I would feel hopeless, instead, I feel hope filled. I am BEYOND grateful for that. I don’t know who needed to hear that or maybe I just needed to say it but today and every day I can say.. God is good always and always God is good ❤️

like I said y’all I don’t know who needed to read this today... maybe you needed the reminder or maybe you needed to know that this kind of peace IS possible even through the toughest storms. If you don’t know him but you want to, reach out!!! I would love nothing more. For now just remember friends

When fear is Big God is SO much Bigger!! ❤️❤️❤️