Faith, doesn’t get us around hard times, it doesn’t help us avoid them—I don’t believe that given a certain amount of faith we will get what we want, given enough faith, we will endure the challenges before us. Faith will get us through not around—faith will help us to see God’s hand. Each of us will be tested in life, Katelynn’s life has been all about Faith. She has endured more than most and has done so with the courage that inspires all of us. She has sustained me, she has comforted me and when I am with her I feel God close. Her bedside has heard more laughter than tears. The first time I went in to the NICU. I promised myself that she would hear joy, I have had the privilege of being with her everyday--that has been my honor. I believe that God will not challenge us greater than we have the capacity to endure. Now as we face an unbearable hole in our lives, we know that others have been carried by God in their trials and now He carries us, He carries each of us if we ask Him. Katelynn was born with many problems, those problems are not totally fixable, and now they are literally causing her body to shut down. She cannot continue to be sustained by medical intervention, the rate in which she is loosing her platelets, plasma transfusions and protein her little body cannot continue. Her heart has enlarged, which we hoped that through the surgeries she had last week, would become smaller, it has not. The muscles of the heart are so stretched out they cannot do their job, this is called heart failure. Her chest is literally all heart. Doctors don’t see much they can do, and so they are allowing us a very special time as a family on Saturday with Katelynn, since she wont be able to come home as has been our hope-- we will take home to her. We are thankful beyond words can express, to know that Katelynn will always be a part of our family and when we die. Katelynn will be there to embrace us with a perfect body. Katelynn shed the first tear I have ever seen her have on Sunday—she has fought a good fight and she has been true to her name she has kept the faith.