Update From Holleigh

We continue to rely on your support, prayers and love to guide us forward.

Jaiden spent much of Sunday resting and healing. We have tried to ween her off of the paralytic twice, but each time the stress is too much on her vitals.

In lieu of this we continue to see small movements of her feet. She continues to try to breathe on her own and tonight her forehead twitched several times. For now she is heavily sedated but still showing us positive baby signs. Her pupils continue to be reactive to light.

The most important day so far is probably tomorrow. The plan is to get an MRI for Jaiden. This is a HUGE test and we need ALL your prayers that the results continue to look promising. Pray that the MRI shows minimal or no lasting damage to our precious Jaiden's brain. This test may be postponed until Christmas depending on how steady her vitals are. We need to keep her stable and safe.

Your prayers continue to reach her and God. Please keep praying until she is fully recovered.

I am going to send a passage about faith and the power of individual prayer that my sister Sharon brought to us today and Father Tom thought we should pass it along.

There are many things that God expects us to do. But there are many things that only He can do. And God expects us to call upon Him to do those things that are His "job". He even invites us to "come boldly to the throne of grace" (Hebrews 4:16).

God gave you feelings so that you could light the alter of incense, so that you might burn about something to the point that when you add your believing to your feeling, its like putting a match to incense. Your prayer then floats up to God as a sweet-smelling savor!

No two blends of incense smell the same. And the same is true for your prayer. The way you pray and the words you use and the intent of your heart are all about you. Don't pray someone else's prayer. Don't say to your self, "We'll, that prayer worked for her. Maybe it will work for me." God is looking for a prayer that comes up out of your passion, your desire, your emotions, your soul!

Do you really want to see God move? Really? Then touch God with your passion. Touch him with your feelings, with your getting up in the middle of the night and pacing the floor, with your tears that flow like a flood, with your groanings and wailings.

He is not swayed by your need. You may be broke, busted, and disgusted, but those conditions won't sway Him. He is moved by a depth of your desire that is matched by the depth of your faith! It takes both.

If there are any ashes still smoldering in your heart, any flickers of faith still burning in your spirit, blow on those coals. Fan them into a flame of desire, and call out to God.

Can you still feel? Then God can still be moved on your behalf. You may be weak. You may have failed. You may have sinned. But if you still have feeling toward God and you still have a desire in your heart to see Him move on your behalf, then God can still be moved.

You may not have what someone else has. You may not look like that other person looks. You may not have one person's talents or another person's skills. But none of that matters. None of that moves God. He is moved by the feelings of your infirmities.

God is not moved by what we have. He is moved by how you feel about what you don't have and by what you need. He is moved by what you are believing for with your faith. Put the flame of feeling to the incense of your prayers, and keep crying out to God!

All the time we have been praying, God has heard our prayers. He will continue to do so until Jaiden is safely home with us. Thank you to you all, thank you to the wonderful staff at Boston Children's, but mostly; thank you to God. Please keep praying.

All our Love,
The Tlapas