praying goodbye....

i am so humbled and so honored to call these people my friends....these dear sweet precious children of God who took in the very least of these, sweet matt...and made him their own. three months has grown them quickly into a family..unconditional love. unwavering trust and blind faith. maybe not blood but the tender mercy and the grace of God ties their hearts together as one family...AND HE IS THEIR SON....baby matt has stopped eating and has shown signs to the hospice nurses that he is in the last stages of his disease and his life here on earth will most likely end in the next few days or maybe a week...we ache with the idea of separation but look forward longingly to Heaven, where matt will have a new body and be healed and know no suffering or pain...where our precious sydney waits for him...along with his Savior who made it possible for matt to know eternal life and new life in Him....this will be terribly hard for me to watch my friends let go of their son...it will be heartbreaking for me to say goodbye to him as well....but peace lies on the other side of Heaven for him...and i want peace for this sweet boy more than comfort for myself....

please be in prayer for my friends...for matt to go painlessly and effortlessly into the arms of our dear Savior. please pray for his family as they will ache with his absence in their home and their lives....and please pray for matt's life to be ever echoing the story of GRACE and MERCY and unconditional love....a beautiful picture of the gospel. that is what his life speaks loudly, even if shortly, it sings loudly and strongly of a God who loves the least of these, a Father to the fatherless who PLACED the lonely with his perfect family for his short time here on earth.....praise be to GOD for matt patrick's life!!!