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Hello! We would appreciate your prayers and support as we grow our family a little more. Please read our story.
I’m sure we can all agree 2020 came with plenty of challenges…it wasn’t just home schooling and working full time, it was working 15 hours 7 days a week in the mortgage industry while trying to manage having chronic pain and health issues…a daughter who was having random seizures with no explanation, a son with NVLD trying to learn through horrible technology and exhausted educators who were doing their best but it wasn’t enough… I thought it was SO HARD. Then at the end of 2020 my daughter, a senior in high school, had a massive hip surgery…more seizures, no answers and things got a little harder. 2021 started her recovery, and my mom and dad were visiting and had found out that dad needed open heart surgery… the risk? He had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis…a vicious disease that could really be aggravated by being intubated while he was in surgery… it was the beginning of a decline for him. While dad recovered, we finally found out the source of my daughters seizures and what her poor body was going thru…it was a stack of diagnosis’s but thank you Lord we had answers….I thought things might start to get easier. I had so much hope for 2022…but on December 12th of 2021 I got a call that my sister in law who was 45 was gone. My brother found her on the couch unresponsive…she died of heart failure due to medical negligence…long story. She left behind my brother and three children. As you can imagine this hit hard. 2022 brought its own challenges of trying to help my brother manage life and the kids and the economy changing drastically… our savings was dwindling and we just tried to do what we could to hang on but it was exhausting and it seemed things just weren’t going to get easier…and then in September of 2022 we got another devastating call that my husband’s brother in law had a massive heart attack and was gone leaving behind my sister in law and our 17 year old niece…and in the midst of that, and our own health problems and life…my brother continued to struggle in his extreme grief…but we ushered in 2023 with hope and a lot of prayers that business would pick up, that my brothers world and struggle would lighten… February showed up with frigid temperatures and a breast cancer diagnosis. I had to take a step back and get thru biopsies and more doctor appointments and decisions…and in April 2023 I had a double mastectomy… I started my complicated healing journey due to EDS and RA and in the meantime my dad continued to decline and so did my brother who had lost his job and a way to support his family… Fast forward now to 2024. Healed of cancer and with my brother still struggling to find work, we recently said goodbye to my daddy on the 12th of June and settled into hard grief. I wanted to crawl into my bed and cry for months but God had another plan. Along with the blessing of getting to keep mom in Colorado, we picked up my 17 year old niece and 13 year old nephew and brought them home to stay for a while…and now awhile turned into a bit more long term. If you know me you also know I am not one to ask for help…but this is not about me anymore…and I will do everything I can to give my niece and nephew the most protective and healing environment that I can. They need counseling, they need education, they need their own space…in a world where we were already struggling to make ends meet you can imagine how much financial pressure this has put on us…especially knowing the mortgage market isn’t anything like what it was even prior to 2020. We are blessed enough to live in a home that has the space to house our family, but we need to build out rooms in the basement to make this work. We need strong arms and supplies and money. We need money for groceries and the increase in utility bills and therapy. We need so much but I also know God is going to provide. So if you feel led, would you please donate to our family? Would you pray for us? Would you reach out if you have resources to help or unused supplies? We know if God has brought us here, He is going to bring us through and we know God is good even when and even if… Thank you for surrounding us in prayer while we embark on this new journey. Thank you for thinking of us and encouraging us. Thank you for supporting us. “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 NIV “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalms 27:13-14 NIV “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
I’m sure we can all agree 2020 came with plenty of challenges…it wasn’t just home schooling and working full time, it was working 15 hours 7 days a week in the mortgage industry while trying to manage having chronic pain and health issues…a daughter who was having random seizures with no explanation, a son with NVLD trying to learn through horrible technology and exhausted educators who were doing their best but it wasn’t enough… I thought it was SO HARD. Then at the end of 2020 my daughter, a senior in high school, had a massive hip surgery…more seizures, no answers and things got a little harder. 2021 started her recovery, and my mom and dad were visiting and had found out that dad needed open heart surgery… the risk? He had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis…a vicious disease that could really be aggravated by being intubated while he was in surgery… it was the beginning of a decline for him. While dad recovered, we finally found out the source of my daughters seizures and what her poor body was going thru…it was a stack of diagnosis’s but thank you Lord we had answers….I thought things might start to get easier. I had so much hope for 2022…but on December 12th of 2021 I got a call that my sister in law who was 45 was gone. My brother found her on the couch unresponsive…she died of heart failure due to medical negligence…long story. She left behind my brother and three children. As you can imagine this hit hard. 2022 brought its own challenges of trying to help my brother manage life and the kids and the economy changing drastically… our savings was dwindling and we just tried to do what we could to hang on but it was exhausting and it seemed things just weren’t going to get easier…and then in September of 2022 we got another devastating call that my husband’s brother in law had a massive heart attack and was gone leaving behind my sister in law and our 17 year old niece…and in the midst of that, and our own health problems and life…my brother continued to struggle in his extreme grief…but we ushered in 2023 with hope and a lot of prayers that business would pick up, that my brothers world and struggle would lighten… February showed up with frigid temperatures and a breast cancer diagnosis. I had to take a step back and get thru biopsies and more doctor appointments and decisions…and in April 2023 I had a double mastectomy… I started my complicated healing journey due to EDS and RA and in the meantime my dad continued to decline and so did my brother who had lost his job and a way to support his family… Fast forward now to 2024. Healed of cancer and with my brother still struggling to find work, we recently said goodbye to my daddy on the 12th of June and settled into hard grief. I wanted to crawl into my bed and cry for months but God had another plan. Along with the blessing of getting to keep mom in Colorado, we picked up my 17 year old niece and 13 year old nephew and brought them home to stay for a while…and now awhile turned into a bit more long term. If you know me you also know I am not one to ask for help…but this is not about me anymore…and I will do everything I can to give my niece and nephew the most protective and healing environment that I can. They need counseling, they need education, they need their own space…in a world where we were already struggling to make ends meet you can imagine how much financial pressure this has put on us…especially knowing the mortgage market isn’t anything like what it was even prior to 2020. We are blessed enough to live in a home that has the space to house our family, but we need to build out rooms in the basement to make this work. We need strong arms and supplies and money. We need money for groceries and the increase in utility bills and therapy. We need so much but I also know God is going to provide. So if you feel led, would you please donate to our family? Would you pray for us? Would you reach out if you have resources to help or unused supplies? We know if God has brought us here, He is going to bring us through and we know God is good even when and even if… Thank you for surrounding us in prayer while we embark on this new journey. Thank you for thinking of us and encouraging us. Thank you for supporting us. “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 NIV “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalms 27:13-14 NIV “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
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Sara Pipkin
Organizer
Littleton, CO