Driving Little Eden Just Got A Lot Easier!!!!!

I am so excited to write this entry tonight!  I can't wait to tell you what God has done.  I want to share how God has shown His love to us through the body of Christ.

Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This the first and great commandment.  And the second is this, Love your neighbor as yourself."  LOVE.  Love is what we have been shown over and over and over since we took our first step on our journey and began our little family.  

Dear friends intervened in our life this past Fall and their act of faith has led to a life changing event in our lives.  These friends spoke truth to and over us.  They helped remind us that God uses His people to bring about His will.  That He can show us love through others.  They have guided and simply walked us through a very dark and scary time.  They reminded us that The Body of Christ is supposed to take care of each other.  When one is in need, we as the Body of Christ are to use our resources and meet the need.  That is "loving your neighbor as yourself."  They went to appointments with us.  Helped us research not only info about wheelchair vans, but safety equipment for Eden.  They bought equipment we could not afford.  They helped me keep up with appointments when I was so tired I couldn't think.  They started us on the path to raise money for our van. They fervently prayed for us.  They cried with us.  Mostly, they did what their King asked them to do, which is to simply LOVE.  They have loved our family very well.  I don't tell you this to brag on them (believe me, they want all the glory to go to God).  I tell you this to praise the Lord that in His sovereignty, He put them in our life.  He let them see what goes on in our home.  He showed them our need.  God brought them to us.  He asked them to help us and because they deeply love Him, they did.  

God also brought each of you in our life.  He has given you a glimpse into our life through Facebook, Go Fund Me and our blog or from church.  He placed each of you that has prayed and shared our story and given to our "Driving Little Eden Fund" in our life.  We are blessed by His goodness.  We are blessed by you all.  During these last couple of months of not being able to get out with Eden, many of you have sat with my kiddos while I took a nap, or had to run one here or there.  Some of you have taken my kiddos to classes or therapy and waited until they were done and brought them home.  One dear friend made beautiful crosses that my children sold so they could be part of the blessing too!  You have offered to wash my clothes when we had some leaking issues recently or offered to get groceries.  The list of love goes on and on.  We are truly blessed to serve a God who sends such amazing people to be part of our lives.  

We sat down last week with the friends that started this journey with us and they asked when we needed the van.  I told them I really wanted it by February because that's when a ton of our appointments begin.  At that point we had been blessed with $33,000 in donations.  They donated the rest of the money needed to purchase our van.

It is through your faithfulness and love that we have been blessed with a new van!  We purchased it yesterday!  It is a silver 2017 Toyota Sienna Northstar.  It is a brand new VMI infloor manual conversion.  It is exactly what we prayed for.   We named her Grace.  It was a beautiful opportunity for me to talk to the girls about God's grace.  How we can't earn it and do nothing to deserve it, He just gives it because He wants to.  I told them it was the same with all the people that gave.  We did nothing to deserve your gifts, your sacrifices.  You gave us GRACE.  Every time I tell them to go get in GRACE, it will be a reminder of your love and God's love for our family.  Thank you for giving us GRACE!

Oh...since we were naming the van, Lyric decided that Eden's wheelchair needed a name.  She thought of Joy but said that would be silly because joy would mean "happy."  I to told her "Joy" was a perfect name because the chair has made mommy's back very happy!!!

So here is a picture of Eden, Grace, and Joy!

God Bless you all!
Thank you so much!!!

Love,
The Yarbroughs