She made it to 4!!!

Aggie celebrates four years of life today!! Statistically speaking this is good news. We were told after receiving her diagnosis that if she makes it to four years old, she is much more likely to live to adult hood.  Of course none of us really know the number of our days, the bible says. And since we were all diagnosed with a genetic mutation of the heart at birth (aka. sin), we are all terminal! But in Christ's kindness he came and lived a perfect life as a man, died the brutal death on our behalf, and over came death, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father praying for us perfectly. He made a way out of our desperate state!! Thank God!!
I am very thankful to know that while I still walk on this earth, before I am with my savior in heaven where I so long to be, I will get to experience the life of our sweet Aggie Rae a few days longer. Her smile, her smell, her velvet soft skin, her beautiful blue eyes and feather soft hair and her corky sense of humor. Her joy is contagious, a beaming Ray which is her namesake. If not for you sweet one, I would not have experienced some of my greatest joys and deepest sorrows, that have shown me the the unending, unchanging consistency of my Fathers love.
Happy 4th Birthday to my little monkey, stinker-bug, turkey-lerkey, Aggie-doodle, Aggie Rae!

A friend shared this beautiful song recently, I thought it was timely. I'm mostly posing it because I don't want to forget it, but you might enjoy it too.

I thought I picture of her with my mom was appropriate. I feel certain that she is her favorite person. Every time my phone rings she says, "Hi MeMa, Hi MeMa!" over and over.  And if my mom happens to be on the other end she say's hi back over and over again. She has to have said "Hi" to Aggie thousands of times by now. If it's not my mom, I must go to another room so that the person I'm speaking to and myself can hear over all the "Hi Mema's".