About Sarah - New Update

Family and friends -

We had our first visit with our new doctor yesterday. It was mostly an informative meeting getting to know the doctor and allowing the doctor to get know us. But when all of that was over, we checked Sarah's heartbeat. Scott and Joan (jen's parents) are in town, so we invited them in to hear the heartbeat. While doing that, the doctor decided to suddenly to do a quick ultra sound scan of Sarah to see where her body position was. Suddenly without warning, we were looking at a screen of Sarah's body. This was the first time seeing her since our very first ultra sound. Here we are again, looking at Sarah on a black and white screen. It was a little unsettling at first. You're believing to see the promises of God, but it's still overwhelming to stand in that place and look into her little life. But this time something was different about her. She's wasn't looking like she did the first time. We all looked on in amazement at what appeared to be a healthy well formed child. We saw hands and fingers. We could see her body and spinal cord and legs. We saw her little face and eyes and it seemed like her head was not swollen with hydracephalus at all. She looked, in all respects, like what we've all been believing for and praying for - she looked healthy and whole.

Doctor Echt was not reading the ultra sound looking for problems, all she was doing was letting us see how she was positioned in Jen, pointing out different parts of her body like the heart, which was beating beautifully by the way. So there was no analysis happening, but we were looking. As she was moving the ultra sound wand around on Jen's stomach, little Sarah was kicking and moving all over the place. Sarah seems to be developing fine! The doctor wasn't saying that. She didn't have time to really take an in depth look at what the ultra sound was revealing. But to u,s we felt we were seeing a miracle. We have another ultra sound on the seventh of March with the doctor who gave us the results of the first ultra sound, so we'll have more analysis on another ultra sound then. But by our perspective, we are seeing the power of prayer, and the power of a miracle working God bringing about a supernatural healing of our little Sarah's life. We are excited! So we wanted to share that with everyone who is standing with us.

This journey with Sarah started with unfavorable news. Presently, we are no where near the other end of this journey with her. She only weighs a pound a half - so she's tiny and still being formed. We are moving toward the fulfillment of things we feel God has spoken to us but we're not there yet. We haven't left our knees concerning her, though we are encouraged by what we saw yesterday. We need and would love your continued support and prayers until the glory of God is fully revealed. Thanks again from Jen and I for praying. We so appreciate it. Praise God for His kindness to us...

- Joseph and Jen