I don't know if I have ever been truly grateful for time.
When you are young, all you think about is growing older.
When you are older, all you think about is making the biggest impact with the time you have left.
I'll admit, before Drake and Vivian, time was just something I expected.
Time to plan, time to dream, time to pursue our life.
God has used Drake and Vivian to change me,
our family....
forever.
Our years have been hard,
some seasons unbearable.
But...
I have never been more grateful for more time.
More time to hold them.
More time to hold each other.
More time to hope for their future.
More time to pray over them.
Time to be still.
Time to fight forward.
Time to sit with Father as He heals and directs.
Time to be a family.
This Thanksgiving as I sit in the still of our home, early in the morning, just before we get the babies up and our day begins...
Sitting before my bible, warm coffee in my hand, husband by my side both about to dive into God's word together, with a home full of babies tucked snug in their beds....
I am so incredibly grateful.
Thank you for loving us. Thank you for walking with our family as we have fought some hard years. Thank you for supporting our efforts at the Drake Rayden Foundation year after long year.
Most small foundations would have not survived...
caring for terminally ill children,
large research bills,
world pandemics,
natural disasters...
But God.
God has always provided through each of you.
Even when I was ready to give up....you have strengthened me.
So much more to come, so much Father is opening right now.
2025 may be the year that we have worked so hard, for almost a decade, to finally see the promised land.
If you think of us today, our children's journey, the hope you have witnessed first hand through their suffering....
Whisper a pray for what God is currently doing.
He is readying us...planting our feet for what is to come.
And please, please know....
from the bottom of our hearts,
we are so grateful for you.
Father is good, He is so kind, and He is faithful.
To God be the Glory.
All our love,
Eric and Tarah, and littles