Micah's Memorial Slideshow

Each day that passes brings us closer to Heaven, closer to the face of our Savior. Never have we longed for Heaven and home as we do now. What plans has our Lord for each of us as we live our days for Him in light of eternity?!

Thank you for your continued care for us. Luke, the kids & I have been doing well. We miss our Micah so much, he was such a joy bug, but his joy lives because joy is from the Lord. Nights can be hardest for me. Luke continues to lead us well having moments to remember, cry and pray together. To think about life and while we are here seeking to live lives that glorify our Saviour.

Luke & I wanted to share the slide show from Micah's Memorial Service with you. A huge thanks to our pastor and his wife, Joe & Esther Lee for all your many hours and late nights putting this together for us. This is truly a special gift to us!!

Hap Hap Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My Love hit the big 29 today!!

Would you believe it!?
He still has such a baby face!

Some of you may or may not know that Luke helps me with almost every post that goes on our blog (he even writes a few here there) be it editing, clarifying, adding to ~ whatever. But today this one is going in without review or it wouldn't make it in! =) It's a chance I have to honor my Baby in a small way...and I love to share about him for over the last 7 years I have only grown to love him more!

The Lord's Gospel and grace is seen clearly evident in his life. His love and care for us is just wonderful!

Baby, I'm so thankful for you. Couldn't do this without ya. Your love, prayers, encouragement, help, laughter, joy, tears, have been precious times of building together and gifts to me. The way you have served us... helping out in the middle of the night now matter what your schedule held, always making time to chat or pray with me when I'm struggling, planning fun things to do and creating so many fantastic memories for us ~the list could go on... but what a treasure you are to us. You continually point us back to the Lord, reminding me of his strength, faithfulness and goodness to us.

Your fighting the good fight and your running well, my Love. May this this coming year be a blessing to you of the Lord's nearness, continued grace & faithfulness and many more memories of living life together!
Your Fam Love You Bunches!!!!

M & M's

Our baby has been in Heaven for 2 weeks now~ is there even time there?! I can't even imagine his joy! We remember him each day..with joy and sadness (just because we miss him so). We love eating M & M's, we call them Micah Moments here at the Davis'~ he loved them and so do we!! We eat them and share stories about our Mikes!
Thanks for your prayers for us. Many of you have asked about Braet and we want you to know he is doing well. We see God's grace all over his lil life, so thankful for him! He is appropriately sad and appropriately glad. Heaven has become grand in his sight and longs all the more to live for the Lord and one day be reunited with his belly buddy!

The cards, oh the cards.... they have been wonderful, pouring in each day, wonderfully uplifting! Thank You. The meals, ladies are fabulous, so very helpful! Covenant Life, you are the real deal! Thank you for your tireless service to us. People are amazed at the way you serve. What a testimony of the gospel!! Love you guys!
For those of you who weren't able to be with us Sat or had wanted to hear what my baby shared again. Here is Luke's tribute to Mikes from the memorial service.
Enjoy some M & M's this week! =)

OUR MICAH MAN
On behalf of Kriscinda & I we would like to thank you so much for coming, for sharing in our lives, for journeying with us. Your prayers, emails, cards, phone calls, meals, and the list could go on…have meant so much. You have comforted, encouraged and touched our lives more than you will ever know.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction."

What comfort, hope and promise we have that our Micah Man is with our Lord where he is experiencing fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore. Though we have loved and cherished him beyond words – our love cannot compare with the one who made him fearfully and wonderfully, the one who willingly laid down his life to make a way for Micah and all of us to be in our true home – living life as He intended it to be.

We have been blessed to have known Micah these three years and have truly come to know that each day is a gift from above. How can we describe or express the amount of joy Micah has brought us? We have been recalling special memories we have of our little one – he would wake up each morning full of joy greeting us with such enthusiasm "Good morning Momma! - Good morning Dadda!" Even when he was truly not feeling well he would do his best to put on his "Cheerful Cheeks". He would point to his cute little cheeks and give his best smile. Many times we would walk into his room late at night just to check on him and when he heard the door open he would pop up in his crib to greet us, smiling and giggling to our delight.We'd hug him and kiss him then lay him back down and he would fall pleasantly back to sleep.

Micah has made a huge impact on our lives, changing them forever. Micah's name means "Who is like God?" Little did we know that when we chose this name for our son, that he would soon be teaching us that there is no one like our God. His ways are so much higher than our ways, his purposes so much greater.

Everywhere we look, we see the marks of his little fingerprints. The effects are far reaching, from the moment he entered this world to this very day and for the rest of our lives. He's taught us how precious life is. He's taught us how fragile and weak we really are – and how strong and mighty our God is. Through him, God has strengthened our faith by taking away everything we would lean on – so that we would lean on him. We've had to trust in God, to press down and find that God is really there, that his promises are true. Promises like: "I will never leave you nor forsake you" "Fear not for I am with you, be not dismayed for I am you God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

It's been said of a grieving parent that one foot is here on earth and the other in heaven. We have never longed for heaven more – never longed for the presence of our Father more – never rejoiced so much over our forgiven sins – never worshiped our God with a greater passion.

Micah, we have a greater picture of heaven and a greater love for God because of you buddy.

Though we don't understand all of the why's of what has happened, we are assured that God is faithful and all things work together for our good. Though we grieve because the deep love we have for Micah – we cannot be sad for him for we know he is truly happy.

One of the last things he said to us in his sweet little voice was "I wuv you momma – I wuv you dadda" We love you too sweet Micah. Although you will not return to us, we will soon go to you. We long for the day when we can once again shower you with our love.

Lemonade Stand

Since we were so blessed recently by the EauClaire girls & the McSheas daughter who put on a lemonade stand for Micah we wanted to pass on an invite to a friends Lemonade Stand... So if you are in the area please stop by and support these two kiddos by buying a glass or pitcher of Lemonade! What a wonderful idea Sam & Emily! Braet will see you on Wed!
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Hi Friends,

Did you know that this coming Wednesday, Aug 8th, the temperature is supposed to be close to 100 degrees!?
Well, it seemed like the perfect day to let Samuel Purswell and Emily Berry operate their lemonade stand (which they have been planning to do ALL summer long). They are trying to raise their money for the Go Forward Fund.
One challenge: not many cars or people come down our street on any given day.SOOOO, we are inviting all of YOU (and any folks you might pass this news along to) to drop by at some point in your day in order to be REFRESHED and ENCOURAGED by two young blossoming mission-minded entrepreneurs.

AND IT WILL ONLY COST YOU $.25 A CUP!!!
What a great deal and cause! The sale will officially start at 10:00 a.m but if you need to come by earlier, we promise you won't leave thirsty.(And, our little stand will be here ALL day long.)
We hope to see you here!

19910 Silverfield Drive, Montgomery Village, MD 20086

Grateful for your support,Sam Purswell's Mom

More from the Garden

The pics I promised from the garden. Enjoy!

Micah's Garden

In DE this weekend visiting with Maw & Paw, Grandma and the fam~ celebrating B-day's , swimming in the pool and enjoying seeing Micah's Garden for the first time. Isn't it beautiful?! Just realized I didn't take a pic of the garden from afar, I'll have to do that and post it!

We hope to have a post for you later this week on us, until then thanks so much for the way you have continued to support us with cards, emails, meals and your prayers. We are ever so grateful!

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Hanging Out

But this I Call to Mind

But this I call to mind...

When I get where I'm going
On the far side of the sky
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly
I'm going to walk beside the Lion
And run my fingers through his mane
And then I'll find out what it's like To ride a drop of rain
When I get where I'm going
There will be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
I will leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
When I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here.


But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: the steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
~Lamentations 3:21-23

One such example, from the Murpheys Blog. This is beautiful. Thanks!!!
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Friends,
Today marks a week since our Micah Man went home to be with the Lord. I can only imagine the wonders he beholds, and enjoys each moment... of him running, jumping, both eyes open once again and focused on his Saviour, he meets many saints gone before, his family and runs to the end of each rainbow.
Wanted to share with you some wonderful "blogs" posts on our baby. How they have encouraged us and what a special tribute to our little man!! Enjoy, might want to grab a tissue too! But it is so worth the tears, these are really special, I'm sure there are many others but here are a few. Love Ya

~Family Room~ CLC, our wonderful church home, our very own pastor and friend, Eric Sheffer
~Girl talk
~Josh Harris, our Senior pastor who spoke at Micah's Memorial Service- post July 28
~One of my favorite girls, Brittany Kauflin
~One of Micah's ICU Nurses
~Kristen, though we haven't meet, how we have been encouraged through her