Jaymun

This little boy needs prayers again,..... well ongoing I should say...but he is critical again.
http://jaymun.com/

I can't even remember how I ever stumbled upon this little boy's story.
But he grabbed my heart immediately.
He was born, yes I said born, as in from day one of his life, had leukemia. When I first started reading and following the blog and his father's updates he was in critical condition of Christmas.
He pulled through and was doing better, relapsed and was sent home basically to die.
This boy's father is amazing. Through intensive research and what I am sure were many many sleepless nights he DARED to research alternative treatments for his son. he read articles, lab reports and called scientists, and came up with his own mixture of herbals for Jaymun. And you know what, they worked! All at a fraction of the cost of conventional medicine. Jaymun was doing well for almost a year following that dreadful prognosis. Over this past summer however, his dad relaxed the herbals and he relapsed a bit, and this has become a down hill slide every since. Many complications scarily similar to my mom's downhill slide.
Things are not looking good right now.
He and his family need our prayers.
This family is SO faithful
With all they have been through they see nothing but the grace of God.
I personally see the gift that this father will be to many many children besides his own. He has started a foundation to give a resource for discovering alternative treatments for other parents and children. I am hoping, and I am sure he is too, that some day cases like his who get a voice will encourage more valid study and recognition for these treatments in modern medicine.
But he did this in the midst of his son's tragedy. He did not sit back and cry, shake his fist at God and take it lying down. While God does want our faith I do believe He also wants us to have our own mind, and DO something. He knows what is planned for us. He knows whether Jaymun will live or die. He also knows WHAT THAT PATH IS FOR. His plan is for us to use our experiences for SOMETHING. While we may sometimes never know the purpose for some of the things we must endure. Personally, and only personally, sometimes I believe God set the earthly ways into motion and let's us experience being human, being mortal. That includes illness, as well as health. Happiness as well as sadness. But I also know He can and does use each event for a purpose.
To teach, set an example, start a new path, what ever it may be.
Most times He has to leave that part up to us. We fall seriously short more often than not, I do anyway.
God gave this father a gift, a gift of perserverence,
the will for knowledge and a desperation to save his son.
God knew this family was the one that could do it.
No matter how long or short Jaymun's time on earth may be.
His little life has had more impact on more people than
most of us will ever touch in a lifetime. That to me is incredible.
No one wants to be handed that task.
I think it takes a pretty awesome and faithful person to accept it, graciously turn around and ask what he is to do with it now instead of waving it back in God's face screaming, "why?".
I only hope should I ever be faced with a fraction of the struggles of this family I can display half the grace, faith and will that this family has.