Cristine

Cristine Joy and her twin Crisel Jane

Grandma, Josie, another sister of Precy, Crisel, Cristine, Precy

This week Precy, her sister Josie, and Cristine came home from Manila. I went to visit them the first chance I could. The doctors told them that her head circumference needed to be no more than 50 cm to have the surgery. Cristine's head was 75 cm! The doctors told them the only thing to do was to enjoy their time with Cristine and to just wait. It was frustrating to hear because even as we were sitting around talking, Cristine was moving around and making noises like a normal healthy baby does.

I was reading In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson and it was talking about how Gideon and his army was reduced to such a small number. Why? because God probably wouldn't have received the glory otherwise. The men might've boasted in themselves and thought how powerful they were to defeat the other army. Sometimes God allows things to happen that we don't think are positive or even possible because He wants the glory from the situation. When the odds are stacked so high then people will know that it was only because of God! That is my prayer with Cristine that through this whole situation whether it ends in our minds what we view as negatively or positively God will receive the glory!