Rusty and Lynette Polinder have been working with the Akha Youth Development Center in Chiang Rai in Thailand as missionaries for the past couple of years and have been expecting their first child. Last Friday Lynette went into labor and gave birth to a baby girl 2.5 months premature. Olive Hope Polinder
This is a friends brother and sister-in-law they had their sweet baby girl Olive Hope at 28 weeks. As a mommy of a preemie I know their pain for first hand. I was lucky enough to carry both of my children closer to term than Lynette was. Being a preemie parent is the hardest things I have every done. Watching my children struggle in those first few weeks of life, is a pain I could NEVER explain. Watching a machine breath for them because their lungs are too weak. Only being able to touch my sweet baby's when I was told I could by a nurse. Not being able hold them because, they where to weak and sick. Is a pain no mother or father should ever go through. I have cried everyday for Lynette and Rusty. Even though I don't know them personally I feel close to them, I wish I could wrap my arms around both of them and hug them as tight as I could.
I found this prayer on Lynette sister blog, I thought it was a beautiful prayer and have been saying it myself all daylong. Please Pray for this Family. I know that prayer is what got John and I through Alana and Davis's NICU stays.
Carrie’s Prayer for Olive Hope
Olive Hope, The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17)
May the power and the blood of Jesus wash over your little body. Lord Jesus, I pray that you would surround Olive with the protective cushion of Your Spirit. I pray that you would wash healing all over her body, around her cells, through her organs, through her brain cells, renewing and restoring. Lord, restore the damage that has been happened with bleeding. Take it away and replace it with cells that are new, that are uninjured. Protect her body from bleeding – keep her cells tight and whole and immune to damage. Keep her from infection. Keep her vital signs stable. Protect her eyes. Protect her vision. I pray that her vision would be restored, and she will be able to look into the eyes of her mommy and see her. Wrap this little being in your presence, around and around with protection, comfort, and healing. Let the power of your kingdom be evident in her tiny body. Jesus. Mend Olive. Make her whole. Restore and protect her. Let her hear her mommy and daddy’s voice even when they are not with her. Let her rest and heal. Give Lynette and Rusty the strength and endurance they need. Give them words to pray, songs to sing. Hear the cries of our heart, Lord. Turn our tears into tears of rejoicing. Give Lynette and Rusty restorative sleep.
In the name of Jesus who died for us and brought us life and the light of your kingdom here on earth,
Amen.
