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Z is for: Jake’s got a new Zip Code!

28 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by Holly Michael in A to Z Challenge, Diabetes, Football, Jake Byrne

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Betsy Byrne, Blog, football, Holly Michael, Jake Byrne, juvenile diabetes, New Orleans Saints, NFL, NFL Draft, Nick Byrne, tight end, type 1 diabetes, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, www.writingstraight.com

Woohoo!!! This is the best way to end this A to Z challenge! My son, Jake, a tight-end with the Wisconsin Badgers, now has a new Zip Code! He just signed with the New Orleans Saints. Thanks be to God!

Want to know more about Jake Byrne, including his battles with type 1 diabetes, and how he got to be a “saint,” read below:

https://writingstraight.com/2012/04/28/y-is-for-yours/

https://writingstraight.com/2012/04/11/j-is-for-jake-and-juvenile-diabetes/

https://writingstraight.com/2012/04/25/v-is-for-the-virgin-mary-and-an-nfl-victory/

https://writingstraight.com/2012/02/19/nfl-aspirations-and-novelist-dreams-follow-the-fairytales-as-they-come-true/

New Orleans! My shocked kids!

Yes YOU! You did it Jake! You were an awesome player in high school, even while struggling with a diabetes diagnosis. 

You were a fantastic Badger!

So proud of you!!

And a good brother to sister Betsy and to brother Nick!

Congratulations Jake!!!! Whew! Glad the A to Z challenge is over and Jake got on an NFL Team. Go Saints! I also got an agent for my novel and hope to be the next one in the family to get a big contract! All glory to God!

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Y is for Yours

28 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by Holly Michael in A to Z Challenge, Diabetes, Football, Inspiration, Jake Byrne

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2012 NFL Draft, Blog, God, Holly Michael, Inspiration, Jake Byrne, juvenile diabetes, NFL Draft, Prayer, type 1 diabetes, www.writingstraight.com

In my A to Z blog challenge, I wanted to wait and blog a “Y is for Yahoo,” but thought of this Y post instead. My hope is to post a yahoo later. For now, I’m posting “Yours.” Here’s why:

Today, with anxiety and anticipation, I wait to hear if my son Jake will be drafted into the NFL. It takes me back 22 years when I was admitted in the hospital and with anxiety and anticipation, I listened to the doctor. He said, “You will most likely miscarry.”

It had been a rough morning. Crimson bed sheets. Cramps. Telltale clots. Didn’t look good four months into my pregnancy. The doctor offered zero hope.

Shortly after he left, a nurse entered the room, not checking me physically, but examining my emotional state. “Have hope,” she said, before she patted my hand and left.

Though I never saw that nurse again, her words sparked hope and ignited my first grown-up prayer. It was simple. “My baby is yours, God.”

I was young, scared, and needed someone way bigger than me to deal with something I couldn’t handle. I remember telling God that though I wanted this baby with all of my heart, whatever the outcome, I would trust Him. If the outcome was not what I wanted, I would be sad, but I would still trust that it was His will. It was a decision. A prayer.

After the prayer, a wave of peace washed over me. God gave me an immediate answer. When another nurse came into the room, I heard Jake’s heartbeat for the fist time.

A few months later, when Jake was born and I looked into his eyes for the first time, I was sure I glimpsed Heaven in those eyes. A look of wisdom of his knowledge of where he’d just been. He connected with me, peered deep into my eyes and cooed. The moment stunned me. I felt as if the coos were a thank you for the prayers I’d offered months earlier. Then, in an instant, the look in his eyes switched to that of an innocent newborn.

From that moment, I knew God had a purpose for Jake to be born. I also realized that my prayers would be an important part of his life. When he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in his teens, and my anxiety would get the best of me, I would again tell God, “He is yours.”

Today, as we wait to see if Jake is drafted in the NFL, I remind myself to let go of my anxiety and pray the same prayer I offered twenty-two years ago, and repeated many times: “Lord, He’s yours. Whatever the outcome, he belongs to you.”

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