tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post3225314950453310378..comments2023-09-01T06:28:15.920-07:00Comments on Loux Family Adoption: RedemptionThe Loux Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15182643560812427856noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-15658217714393980542008-12-14T12:15:00.000-08:002008-12-14T12:15:00.000-08:00Beautiful. THANK YOU, GOD for Your redemption! Hop...Beautiful. THANK YOU, GOD for Your redemption! <BR/>Hope to connect with you guys this week. Wed/ Friday are most probable. After your visits. Scope out a place for coffee/ dinner! <BR/>TammyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16776150022179305307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-91455058107607536072008-12-14T08:11:00.000-08:002008-12-14T08:11:00.000-08:00Thank you so much for your 'realness' and your 'vu...Thank you so much for your 'realness' and your 'vulnerability' -- you have no idea how much that means to us! We so appreciate you sharing your heart and what God is teaching you through all this. As we're just now entering the world of foster care and whatever the Lord has beyond this -- this post really pierced our hearts and challenged us about love...loving unconditionally. Thank you!Debihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01198334740736836366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-35697501989811999022008-12-12T16:49:00.000-08:002008-12-12T16:49:00.000-08:00Beautiful post! Thank you so much for sharing your...Beautiful post! Thank you so much for sharing your heart.<BR/><BR/>Amanda (RR)Amanda Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01694673999432181889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-40166895227578798602008-12-12T14:21:00.000-08:002008-12-12T14:21:00.000-08:00Derek and Renee, as we were meeting tonight with o...Derek and Renee, as we were meeting tonight with our international Christian fellowship, and worshipping, we were singing the song with the refrain: Savior, He can move the mountains, He is mighty to save, My God is mighty to save! As we sang, an overwhelming sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit hit me as He brought you all and little Dimitri to my heart...I wept as the Lord said, "Have everyone here sing this out and change the word "save" to "heal"! So I shared with the group your story, and we stood and worshipped, declaring that God is mighty to heal! It was a powerful time and I just want you to be encouraged that a group of believers in Szeged, Hungary was worshipping the Lord for you and your little boys!Arden Campbell Czaszewiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609339448276436550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-86485574939619474512008-12-12T10:29:00.000-08:002008-12-12T10:29:00.000-08:00Hello Derek & Renee:Thank you for allowing me ...Hello Derek & Renee:<BR/><BR/>Thank you for allowing me to follow your adoption journey. Although I cannot offer mature words of Christian wisdom, we will pray for Dimitri's health and that Dimitri will make it to the U.S. without his health getting any worse. It is amazing how good nutrition and lots of input, input, input can make a difference in the lives of these beautiful children with Down syndrome.<BR/><BR/>My son and I have fallen in love with two little girls with DS from Reece's Rainbow, hence, my finding your blog (through Tracie . . .thank you). We have to wait until our Haitian adoptions are completed before we can look at starting with the two girls from the Ukraine we are following and praying for. The Lord has told me that "there is one of them I cannot neglect" for sure.<BR/><BR/>Meredith's post to you is so very encouraging too.<BR/><BR/>Bless you all.<BR/><BR/>Rosalie<BR/><BR/>www.whitneyandmore.blogspot.comRosaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08178294048599900860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-69005731081085893852008-12-12T10:24:00.000-08:002008-12-12T10:24:00.000-08:00What a wonderful reminder to us all who have been ...What a wonderful reminder to us all who have been redeemer by our great Redeemer. Thanks for your transparency through this process. May God continue to protect, guide and uphold you as you redeem your little ones and bring them home to the states. What a testimony of His love you will be to their precious and WORTHY hearts!lisaqshayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09825928396343089634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-21343745653013862512008-12-12T07:27:00.000-08:002008-12-12T07:27:00.000-08:00God, You're amazing. We trust these little ones t...God, You're amazing. We trust these little ones to You. You are worthy of all praise and honor and glory. Thank you for letting us get a glimpse of Your redemptive heart as we make the journey to redeem. Thank you for being my Daddy and adopting me and making me well.Chris and Mary Malonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212638961341847047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-77353012628032730842008-12-12T06:53:00.000-08:002008-12-12T06:53:00.000-08:00I'm sitting here weeping after reading your entry ...I'm sitting here weeping after reading your entry and these comments! God is so BIG in you two, and in little Dimitri as well! REDEEMING GOD, we cry out to you, thanking You for giving us so much! Amen and amen!Arden Campbell Czaszewiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609339448276436550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-53210734178816829022008-12-12T06:04:00.000-08:002008-12-12T06:04:00.000-08:00What a beautiful post, and so difficult too.I am a...What a beautiful post, and so difficult too.<BR/><BR/>I am about 9 or 10 months ahead of you all, but those same words came from our mouths in regard to Micah (18 months, 11 lbs, throwing up constantly, diarrhea constantly, slept all the time, didn't smile and never had we're told, didn't hold his head up, didn't make eye contact) and Emma (5 years, 17 lbs, major heart issue, didn't hold her head up, didn't smile for the first several days, didn't sit unassisted but did roll to get around, her legs were like a newborn and when I changed her diaper I cried at how there was nothing whatsoever to her bony body).<BR/><BR/>Wednesday Emma sat in her high chair and FED HERSELF cheerios. Thursday Emma CRAWLED after a ball (in a funny way, but hey, they told us she has CP too and wouldn't do much...). This past 2 weeks she's begun to BEAR WEIGHT on her legs and she'll get custom orthotics in a week or two. Her "unrepairable heart defect- she has 6 months to live" is fixed and yesterday at the cardiologist we were told even her pulmonary pressures ("irreversible damage") are slowly coming down and she doesn't need to be seen for FOUR months.<BR/><BR/>Micah is STANDING. He laughs constantly, he is cruising, he loves to hug his brother and sisters.<BR/><BR/>They both started out ill and damaged and forgotten alone in their cribs... and they are now THRIVING, which is a testimony only to how good God is. Sometimes, just as in a person with more baggage is more grateful for redemption, a person with further to mend is more of a testimony of God's hand of healing than one without trials. <BR/><BR/>God has His plans for Dimitriy and tho we don't know whether they'll be or whether his trials will be long or short, but we know that his life is NOW a testimony of God's goodness because He has brought you to him and now there is one to tell the story.<BR/><BR/>I'm still amazed that God chose me to be able to tell of his Goodness through Emma and Micah, who by the way are 29 and 24 lbs now and I was told by their doctors to "be careful, we don't want them to get TOO heavy" :)<BR/><BR/>Blessings to you all, we continue to hold you in our prayers.<BR/><BR/>MeredithMeredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974293935380325338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-33596108462343868732008-12-12T05:49:00.000-08:002008-12-12T05:49:00.000-08:00Derek, My heart is touched,moved,and broken for...Derek,<BR/> My heart is touched,moved,and broken for this precious darlin,my grandson. The world does look at people like him and people like Grandma as throw aways because they don't respond the way we want or hope.The cost is high and hard but the benefits in the kingdom are worth it.These are kingdom people and God deems them just as worth it as he deems us worth it. Praying for you both as you fight the good and worthwhile fight. We will love him no maatter what!!!!<BR/>Gobs of Love, Mom & Dadmimsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17879208792436678575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-33743359237582296222008-12-12T05:12:00.000-08:002008-12-12T05:12:00.000-08:00Derek, Thanks so much for sharing the journey of y...Derek, Thanks so much for sharing the journey of your heart! <BR/><BR/>WOW!Traciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443250569665623012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-17427967032749677562008-12-12T04:13:00.000-08:002008-12-12T04:13:00.000-08:00Beautiful post. I am in tears. Praying for all of ...Beautiful post. I am in tears. Praying for all of you.<BR/>Gwengrammygwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08517820716427613131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428529210667868323.post-23868115446720259152008-12-12T03:21:00.000-08:002008-12-12T03:21:00.000-08:00D&R,Thank you for sharing! I see the Lord'...D&R,<BR/>Thank you for sharing! I see the Lord's hand in all of this. I am brought to tears once again as I think of the process you are going throught to learn these lessons. God is so good. You and so many of us in your extended family (yeah even us cyberstalkers consider ourselves family!) already love these boys so much! I expect Pappa to continue to be faithful! I will continue to pray!<BR/>XO in christ~your sister,<BR/>Sarahsarahjohnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049757176648928634noreply@blogger.com