{"id":1786,"date":"2011-09-02T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:02:33","slug":"some-may-call-me-naive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Some may call me naive"},"content":{"rendered":"

But I have been incredibly humbled again and again to see what God is doing.<\/p>\n

Do you have times like that?\u00a0 You know, times when nothing can explain\u00a0what you have witnessed\u00a0except that once again something had changed, been altered\u00a0and you were left shaking your head that\u00a0with your own eyes\u00a0you were actually witnessing it?<\/p>\n

Click over here and see what He’s been up to.\u00a0 Linny has just shared an incredible miracle over at A Place Called Simplicity. <\/a><\/p>\n

The thing is, I had just come from New Day’s website <\/a>where I was reading about Miss Ella<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s what Hannah had written (click here <\/a>to view it in it’s original format with photos on the New Day site):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>\nUnadoptable?<\/strong>The bleak news of Ella\u2019s situation struck a chord of sadness in our hearts. Her orphanage is afraid that no one will want to adopt a little girl who is struggling with seizures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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It\u2019s been months since Ella started seizing. We rushed her to the hospital that first evening when the seizures began. The doctors, in desperation for the seizures to stop, put Ella in an induced coma. This procedure was routine, but Ella\u2019s situation went from serious to grim when an EEG scan showed little brain activity. The doctors told us that the chances she would ever wake up were slim.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nElla\u2019s eyes opened the next morning. Already she was a miracle and had proven herself to be a fighter.With medication, Ella\u2019s seizures began to decrease, though they have yet to cease. Since the first seizure, we\u2019ve been to many hospitals and specialists who have said that Ella\u2019s condition is non-reversible. She is continuing to suffer from seizures, but we are hopeful that a solution will be found and that they can be brought under control.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Her current situation is not optimistic. At best, she will live a normal but limited life. At worst\u2026 we shudder to think of what will happen. If Ella is not adopted, she has almost no chance.Ella is a sweet and beautiful little girl. She\u2019s six months old with a gentle and patient temperament. She soaks up love, loving to be held tight and close. Sometimes her eyes stare into space, but sometimes they are responsive and deep. When she sees familiar faces and hears familiar voices, a surprisingly joyful smile lights up her face.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nElla is on a long road to healing, but we believe that she is on it and we desire that she will continue on it with a family by her side. She desperately needs the love and care of a mother and father. If there was a family, one prepared to deal with Ella\u2019s very challenging special needs, the orphanage would jump at the chance to do her adoption paperwork and give Ella a chance.Are you that family? Do you know a family who could care for this beautiful and loved little girl?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

E-mail hannah@newdaycreations.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So if you asked me in the midst of my busy, almost harried life?\u00a0 I’d probably shake my head and say how tragic her story is.<\/div>\n
But now that you are catching me as I just turn from reading Linny’s account of her own daughter’s miracle, I have a different take on Ella’s future.<\/div>\n
Whether I acknowledge Him or no.\u00a0 Whether I claim to see Him working or no.\u00a0 He is.<\/div>\n
And Ella’s hope?\u00a0 Well, He’s alive and well too.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I have been incredibly humbled again and again to see what God is doing. Do you have times like that?\u00a0 You know, times when nothing can explain\u00a0what you have witnessed\u00a0except that once again something had changed, been altered\u00a0and you were left shaking your head that\u00a0with your own eyes\u00a0you were actually witnessing it? Click over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}