The Year: 2010
Setting: Penn Hills, PA
Time: New Year's Eve
Cast of Characters: Trey, Jay, Rachel, Aunt Cathy, and many, many others!
Plot Elements:
Plot Elements:
The stomach bug ran rampant through the Mitlo Family
Trey admitted to Children's Hospital to begin cancer treatment
Jay and Rachel staying with Trey
Joe and Bella need a caregiver (with a strong stomach)
Aunt Cathy (from the healthy side of PA) drives 300 miles to help relieve the friends who had been babysitting. Little did Cathy know that "helping" involved spending New Year's Eve away from her family and alone, undecorating the Mitlo house from Christmas, untillllll Rachel enters stage left to come home to regroup from the hospital.
What was it like to spend New Year's Eve with a grieving mom? And not just a grieving Mom, but with the strongest Mom you know?!
How can someone EVER put away someone else's decorations.......correctly?
How can someone EVER put away someone else's decorations.......correctly?
And how is it that Jay was changing our TV channel from the hospital?! (Thank you, friends, who provided that luxury soooooo quickly!)
This was a God sized task! He had all the details taken care of! He provided all the courage and peace humanly possible in this situation. Do you want to grow your faith in God? Listen for His voice. Just say, "Yes!" Go where He sends you.
Do you have a new word for 2020? How about YES?
"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13
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