From the Mouths of Babes

This past week, our children became aware of a disease that I wished I did not have to tell them about....malaria.

You see, late last week, we received an e-mail that the little boy we are in the process of adopting had malaria...
And
Time
Stopped.

Waiting for news was excruciating...and knowing we could not be with him while he was sick made it hard to breath.  So we did the only thing we could, we prayed...and we asked others to pray. 

Of course, our girls wanted to know what was going on...and what malaria was...how did he get it...why did he get it...and the list goes ON and ON.  While talking about it and researching it, I found some disturbing facts.

• Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes.
• In 2008, malaria caused nearly one million deaths, mostly among African children. 
• In Africa a child dies every 45 seconds of Malaria, the disease accounts for 20% of all childhood deaths.
• Malaria is preventable and curable.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/ 

Talk about staggering...unbelievable...unthinkable...and sad.

Both girls prayed for their little brother...and our youngest went to daycare the next day and announced at daycare that they all needed to pray for her little brother because "he got stung by a bug that is sick."  Amen, baby girl, amen!

We found out yesterday that our little guy is doing much better...and we thank everyone for their prayers.

Lauren