tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post9056442411672584251..comments2023-10-20T11:17:06.504-05:00Comments on Pray for Joseph: St. Jude'sAllen and Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555404343473667037noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-18557601938325345222007-12-26T10:03:00.000-06:002007-12-26T10:03:00.000-06:00It's horrible for me to hear the bad news about Jo...It's horrible for me to hear the bad news about Joseph .. However , I am glad to know he's coming home to celebrate christmas. Me and my family are praying for Joseph. I wish I could do something to help you .. I hope I can all visit you soon .<BR/>Love, DarraghAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-88862688135769475432007-12-26T09:36:00.000-06:002007-12-26T09:36:00.000-06:00Gillian & Allen We were all so upset about the new...Gillian & Allen <BR/>We were all so upset about the news that Joseph has to undergo more surgery. We have a candle burning in Amsterdam for him. All our love and support while you're in Memphis. <BR/>love from all your family in HollandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-31886715361914430282007-12-26T07:01:00.000-06:002007-12-26T07:01:00.000-06:00Dear Prescious Friends,How I wish I could simply b...Dear Prescious Friends,<BR/><BR/>How I wish I could simply be there with you!!! You are prescious to us and to the Lord; we love you and long for you to experience the supernatural comfort of the Lord in this overwhelmingly trying time. I pray that amidst all these life storms, big and small, you can sense that the Lord is indeed with you in the boat.<BR/> When we finished our family prayer time last night Ksusha realized no one had prayed for Joseph, so she prayed again - and 2 or 3 of the other kids said 'I was about to pray for Joseph too...' She has 'Pray for Joseph' written in huge black marker across the only mirror in her room. I pray that you all sense you are being carried in the arms of the Lord. <BR/>We all love you!! - Susan, Brian, Sasha, Cristi, Ksusha, Masha, Katya, Anya, Alex, Vasya, Trevor, SvetaSusan Hillishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147439682706040436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-80458046922251254842007-12-25T21:42:00.000-06:002007-12-25T21:42:00.000-06:00Just wanted to let you know you are in our prayers...Just wanted to let you know you are in our prayers this Christmas Day. <BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/>Chas and CatherineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-83067481865468516642007-12-25T19:45:00.000-06:002007-12-25T19:45:00.000-06:00Merry Christmas Friends! You are in our thoughts....Merry Christmas Friends! You are in our thoughts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-71768524816925881642007-12-25T16:29:00.000-06:002007-12-25T16:29:00.000-06:00Hi from Dublin to all the Taaffes and Allens on Ch...Hi from Dublin to all the Taaffes and Allens on Christmas Day.<BR/>Before dinner Maud lit a candle for Joseph and we kept it burning bright all day.<BR/>With Love and best wishes, James,Ingrid,Chloe ,Stephen ,Alice ,Sophie,Lucy and Maud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-25851970929812049432007-12-25T13:23:00.000-06:002007-12-25T13:23:00.000-06:00Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas in N...Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas in Nashville. Close to us in Murfreesboro. I am continuing to pray for you all and that each moment is lifted up by the Lord.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08145863114772194619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-22664392462251299322007-12-25T04:58:00.000-06:002007-12-25T04:58:00.000-06:00Happy Christmas Gillian, Allen, Joseph & Holly. H...Happy Christmas Gillian, Allen, Joseph & Holly. Hope you have a great day with your family. We are thinking of you every day.<BR/><BR/>Paul, Caroline, Shauna, Jack & Cillian TigheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-16422964239891222632007-12-25T01:27:00.000-06:002007-12-25T01:27:00.000-06:00Happy Birthday, Jesus!We just got home from Jesus'...Happy Birthday, Jesus!<BR/><BR/>We just got home from Jesus' Birthday Party at the Episcopal Cathedral here in Kansas City. It was - as it always is - a grand and glorious celebration, with all the "smells and bells" and harps and organ and oboes and choir ... and with candles and dimmed lights and and Silent Night at the end. I continue to marvel at what a wonderful day of celebration Jesus' birthday must be in Heaven, and - as much as Chip loved Christmas here on Earth - how much more wonderful it must be for him to be a part of the celebration in Jesus' actual presence!<BR/><BR/>During his sermon, the Bishop talked about hearts being open to love ... to feel love and to receive love. He talked as well about the sad fact that, in order for a heart to be open to feel love, to give love, to receive love, it much be open to feel as well the pain that sometimes comes with ... as a part of ... as a ... as a consequence of love.<BR/><BR/>God and I had a little talk while I was at His Son's Birthday Party. We talked about Joseph and about all that love and care for him and about the pain that folks are feeling right now because of that love that they feel. It remains my firm and absolute conviction that God knows of your love and of your pain and of your fear and (dare I say it) that you may at times even question why He is handling Joseph's healing the way He is handling it.<BR/><BR/>Ralph Redundant here (I may, some day, actually have an original thought) but my Prayer for you today, Jesus' Birthday, is that His Birthday Gift to you will be a heart so open to His Love, and His Father's Love and The Holy Spirit's Love that - even at the risk of some pain along the way, you can trust that Joseph Is Being Healed in the absolutely BEST possible way!<BR/><BR/>With Best Wishes for a Christmas of Peace and Joy and Love, and with continued Prayers and Love from Kansas City ...Jiggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864780425342868187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-7061340651005926062007-12-24T23:44:00.000-06:002007-12-24T23:44:00.000-06:00Merry CHRISTmas to all and to all a good night. I ...Merry CHRISTmas to all and to all a good night. I hope all the kids in Nashville are in bed, I just saw Santa Claus leave Houston!Mary Vagnonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242107626727131701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-83600648688786102792007-12-24T21:53:00.000-06:002007-12-24T21:53:00.000-06:00We are thankful you are home for Christmas and tha...We are thankful you are home for Christmas and thankful that you are surrounded by those that love you. You are continually in our prayers and thoughts. Merry Christmas Allen, Gillian, Joseph and Holly. We love you dearly. <BR/>The Kissell Family.Vann and Normahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979045468472736427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-40077112561205771472007-12-24T16:56:00.000-06:002007-12-24T16:56:00.000-06:00Allen, Gillian, Joseph and Holly:Merry Christmas t...Allen, Gillian, Joseph and Holly:<BR/>Merry Christmas to you all. Here's wishing you some extra special gifts that can't be wrapped up- faith, strength, healing, peace, love, patience and blessings. Know that you are never far from our thoughts during today, tomorrow, next week and after. <BR/>Talk to you soon. Love, <BR/>Margaret, Chris, Matthew, Sarah..and our friends and families, their friends and families... all who are praying for you.<BR/>Btw- My mom's friend in Snellville added you to her church's prayer list and you were already there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-63401126345152915082007-12-24T10:12:00.000-06:002007-12-24T10:12:00.000-06:00I check your blog and think about you often. (Jen...I check your blog and think about you often. (Jennifer is a friend of mine in Memphis.) You all are showing amazing grace and strength as you parent Joe well and love him through all of this.<BR/>Glad you are able to be home for Christmas!<BR/><BR/>LaurenMLShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09660143734089306097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-41705348405817325402007-12-24T10:09:00.000-06:002007-12-24T10:09:00.000-06:00I was reading this morning and came across the fol...I was reading this morning and came across the following written by Rose Gallion: "God with us. That's what Immanuel means. The prophet Isaiah foretold Jesus' birth and said He would be called Immanuel and Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. No longer would we walk through life alone with God watching us from a distance. Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection eliminated the barrier of sin and death and brought God to us--and us to God. In our darkest hours, in our saddest moments,....let us take comfort that we are not alone. Immanuel. God with us." The Warrens wish all the people who have been brought together by this blog a Merry Christmas! I'm sure most are like us, we come to this site several times a day usally at a loss of words, but find comfort in the words of others. We continue to lift Joseph and family up to our God in prayer. Love, Martha, Karl, Adam, Ashley and Ryan. "For with God nothing shall be impossible." Luke 1:37Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-90512589976062629062007-12-24T09:56:00.000-06:002007-12-24T09:56:00.000-06:00We found your site through Boothe's page and just ...We found your site through Boothe's page and just wanted to let you know we'll be praying for Joseph. My daughter Kennedy recently finished chemo for leukemia. She's 3 as well. It's hard... to see your child sick, lose their hair, their strength, to pump their little bodies full of poison and make them sicker in hopes of ultimately making them better. It's not easy... at all. But as a parent you do everything you can for your child and realize that little person is one million times stronger than you will ever be and you go forward, with perseverance that only God can give you and you embrace this new world of MRIs, spinal taps, chemo, radiation, nurses and doctors and the most adorable bald heads you will ever see. You pray that every decision you make for your child is right and you sit up nights and let the tears flow as the Lord gently guides you and reassures you and hopefully one day you will be on the other side with a healthy child and you can say "OK we did it... and it was all worth it." Praying for that moment to come for your family very soon. <BR/>Renee<BR/>(Mommy to Kennedy... a Vanderbilt Children's success story)<BR/>www.carepages.com <BR/>site name: KennedyGarciaMommy to those Special Kshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321242319840791482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-50698730819797681302007-12-23T15:54:00.000-06:002007-12-23T15:54:00.000-06:00We were glad to read that you will be about to spe...We were glad to read that you will be about to spend time with family in Nashville. We will continue to pray for Joseph in Baltimore and hope that God gives you the wisdom and strength you need to get through this. <BR/><BR/>Love, Karin and David PeabodyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-61798776935035824442007-12-23T00:17:00.000-06:002007-12-23T00:17:00.000-06:00I continue to thank God for the healing He is work...I continue to thank God for the healing He is working in Joseph and for the compassionate and understanding healthcare team He has assembled – and will, I am absolutely confident, continue to assemble – for His continuation of that healing.<BR/><BR/>Ann and I will never forget the warmth and love and concern and compassion with which the Taaffe’s and the Taaffe extended family enveloped us during what was a difficult Christmas celebration for us a couple of years ago. While I feel really foolish typing these words, ‘cause this is absolutely NOT anything you need to hear from me, I feel a real urge to encourage you all to just do now as you helped invite us to do then … relax, let yourselves be enveloped by the love and warmth and healing grace that will pour from God through all with whom you’ll be in Nashville, and trust – absolutely – that God HAS begun a good work in Joseph, and that He absolutely will be true to His word to continue the good work which He has begun.<BR/><BR/>We are sorry that we’ll not be able to be with you all for Christmas this year … if for no other reason than how wonderful it would be to be able to watch God’s Grace in action. Please know, however, that we will be with you – and all gathered there with you – in thought and in prayer!<BR/><BR/>With continued love and prayers from Kansas City …Jiggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864780425342868187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-21004030798952610892007-12-22T18:47:00.000-06:002007-12-22T18:47:00.000-06:00GillianOur thoughts and prayers are with all of yo...Gillian<BR/>Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Merry Christmas.<BR/>Melissa and Kayla Kornfeld in AtlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-12415853014870357162007-12-22T13:10:00.000-06:002007-12-22T13:10:00.000-06:00so thankful you will be with family for christmas....so thankful you will be with family for christmas. so glad joseph will get to wake up and know santa came!! christmas has a new and more powerful meaning for conor and i now and i pray you, too, will feel hope rising this season. we are praying for each of you, for your marriage, for your relationship with your friends who so desperately long to comfort you, and for the time you have with the kids, that it's sweet and calm and incredibly restoring. <BR/><BR/>blessings-<BR/>conor and boothevim+dashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01077440307372733445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-72697427141970945692007-12-22T08:28:00.000-06:002007-12-22T08:28:00.000-06:00The bible tells us to pray without ceasing and boy...The bible tells us to pray without ceasing and boy, that's what I'm doing for you because you are ALWAYS on my mind - morning, night, even when I'm dreaming.<BR/>Gil, it was a treat to take you & Joseph to the airport. So sorry to hear the next day was so difficult. I imagine when you got the news about a 2nd surgery thoughts crossed your mind like, " I can't do that again. We can't go through that again. He's just getting over the last one." When you feel at the end of your rope, remember that God's strength is limitless...He never runs out. I am praying He will keep you supplied with every sort of strength (emotional, physical) you need. <BR/>I am praying that He will cover you with supernatural comfort when you worry about the big picture and the smaller details and even when you miss Holly.<BR/>I am praying for you & Allen. There are few stresses on a marriage as great as having a seriously ill child. I am praying that despite the stress & fatigue and frustration of this whirlwind, that God would be drawing you two closer to each other and to Him.<BR/>Finally, I am praying for a sweet Christmas that, at times, feels just normal.<BR/>We love you all.<BR/>SuzanneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-11181809630133138242007-12-22T08:26:00.000-06:002007-12-22T08:26:00.000-06:00So happy that you all will be together in Taaffes ...So happy that you all will be together in Taaffes over the Christmas where we know it will be a fun packed well fed and celebatory crowd with Christmus full of cheer and goodwill. We will be thinking of you and Joseph will be prayed for at Mass on Christmas night in Matawan. Our love from our house to yours even though we are separated by many miles our thoughts are with you all the time. Love Susan and Brian and familyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-22633699256965135592007-12-21T23:57:00.000-06:002007-12-21T23:57:00.000-06:00OK, last post for today. Can I just say I have cri...OK, last post for today. Can I just say I have cried all day! Maybe its just the latest sinking in or the fact that I can't hop in the car and see you in 10 minutes. I don't know. I do know that when I am upset and don't feel like praying. Yes, sometimes I don't feel like praying. At least I am honest. But when I feel like that, it is comforting to come here and see that people are praying when I don't have the strength. <BR/><BR/>I saw a friend tonight who was asking about you guys. I told them to check the blog for the latest instead of trying to explain it all myself. Yikes. They surprised me by telling me they check it religiously. It made me realize how many others are out there, doing the same. Praying constantly. Begging God for all the mercy and grace and healing that Allen, Gillian and Joe needs. And the rest of the family. <BR/><BR/>OK, end of post. I feel terribly awkward to be the only family to be in Memphis while everyone is in Nashville. Maybe we will come for a day. But of course, I am incredibly fortunate to be in Memphis while you have to be here. Thank God I live here. I used to hate living here. Now I feel a huge purpose in being placed here. <BR/><BR/>Love you guys.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627098614518189191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-12096037720584905902007-12-21T23:02:00.000-06:002007-12-21T23:02:00.000-06:00What a joyous visit we just had with Joseph, Gilli...What a joyous visit we just had with Joseph, Gillian, and Allen! Thank you for stopping by on your way to Nana and Grandad's house. It was so good to see Joseph laughing, walking, talking, and running (with another's hand)and playing chase with Big Daddy. He ate a lot of snacks and wanted to play cars and roll the pool table balls in the pockets. It was wonderful playing with him and seeing him happy.<BR/>Dear son and daughter we love you so much and are so proud of you. Joseph is so blessed to have you as his parents. We are constantly lifting you up and praying that God will give you the strength and courage you need to face each day. <BR/>Love, Mom and Dad PeabodyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-38755269610575773182007-12-21T22:49:00.000-06:002007-12-21T22:49:00.000-06:00Randy and I have only known the Taaffe's for a sho...Randy and I have only known the Taaffe's for a short time as our son Kirk played soccer with David this year. This is a wonderful family who came into our lives and we so want everything to turn out for the best. We think of Billy and Pauline constantly and wish we could do more. Our prayers and thoughts are with all of you every day. Please know you are very important to us!!<BR/>BobBob & Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12367594372595903746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003014250576700712.post-21724447434153396892007-12-21T21:29:00.000-06:002007-12-21T21:29:00.000-06:00Oh, guys. We are so sad to read the report and to ...Oh, guys. We are so sad to read the report and to know you have the excruciating step of another surgery. As if one surgery isn't enough! It makes me so mad that you guys even had to go through the first surgery if this was required all along. We cry to think of your sweet Joseph going through so much...to think of you all going through so much. We wish somehow we could share this burden with you and make the journey easier. We are praying for you--asking God to give you His comfort and his Hope in this journey. <BR/>We all send our love,<BR/>keely, josh & salemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com