Prayables | how you are made

Published: Tue, 03/01/22

Tuesday March 1, 2022

I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.
Susanna Wesley

For every sleepless night, there is new dawn. May God bless you with a working-out of the problems that keep you up at night. Look to the light and find your answers.

God. Do You hear the murmuring of my prayers? Can You understand the language of my silence? Are You listening to me when I cry out for mercy?
Please, loving Father, I am waiting for Your immortal words. Please, answer me.

Genesis 9:6 In God's image, humankind is made. You are beloved, for God gave you a spark of the Divine in your creation.

MIRACLE BABY

"You never know what life will unfold for you."

The joy of becoming a parent is indescribable, but becoming a first-time parent at the age of 50? There really aren’t words for that.

“It was so surreal,” said Susie Troxler, 50. “Everything had come together for that moment to happen. It’s hard to wrap our heads around – we’re no longer just husband and wife, we’re ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy.’”

Troxler and husband Tony, 61, gave birth to Lily Antonia Troxler on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The couple, together 13 years, had always wanted a child, but it just never happened. Everything changed the day Troxler met with Dr. Carolyn Harraway-Smith, Cone Health’s chief medical officer for women’s health, during an annual checkup.

“Near the end of my appointment, Dr. Harraway-Smith asked, ‘Is there anything else,’” Troxler said. “If she hadn’t asked that question, then this baby probably wouldn’t be here.”

In that moment, Troxler told Harraway-Smith about her desire to be a mother and about the challenges she and her husband faced in becoming parents. Harraway-Smith walked Troxler through her options and, together, the group decided to try in-vitro fertilization.

The couple went through the process for two years without luck. Then, with just one embryo left, they conceived. That two-year journey that began with a question ended with Harraway-Smith personally delivering Lily...read more

PRAYERS FOR THIS FAMILY

Having a hard time with the ex-wife following through on our daughter doing counseling. Part of the divorce agreement was that she would. She has done nothing but make excuses why she hasn’t been able to go, and now said the counselor doesn’t want to do it and that Riley doesn’t need it. It wasn’t to just help with our relationship which is pretty much non-existent, but to help her work through the divorce and some personal issues that she was and may still be going through.

-Ronald