Every Thursday a group of bloggers get together to highlight a Compassion child that’s been waiting six months or longer for a sponsor. Won’t you consider sponsoring Aot, or telling a friend about Aot?

Name: Wachirapong Seejan (TH9260307)

Birthday: August 12, 2006    Age: 4

Gender: Male

Region: Asia

Country: Thailand

Program: New Life for Needy Children

Personal and Family Information:
Aot lives with his father and his mother. His duties at home include working at various household chores. There are 2 children in the family. His father is sometimes employed as a farmer and his mother is sometimes employed as a farmer.

Playing with cars, telling stories and playing ball games are Aot’s favorite activities. In kindergarten his performance is average and he also regularly attends church activities and Bible class.

Even if you can’t sponsor Aot, will you do a couple things? Tweet about Aot and post a link to him on your Facebook wall, please? Let’s get his face in as many places as possible and get him sponsored!

Looking back, I think my problems started on Halloween weekend. Lots of people I knew were sick with a crazy cough and I caught it, too. I still have a little cough, actually. But I think the persistent cough allowed the infection that was already in me to spread.

Fast forward to Friday, 11/19. By the way, we’re about to go into some detail that some of you might not be comfy with, so consider yourself warned. I hadn’t had a bowel movement in days which is very uncommon for me. So, I took a laxative and waited. Nothing. Took more laxatives on Saturday, and waited. Nothing.

I went so far as to use The Big E on Sunday. And waited.

Nothing.

So, acting completely out of character, I call the doctor first thing Monday morning. By 6pm I’m in a hospital bed. By 11pm I’ve had a CAT Scan on my lower abdomen.

By Tuesday afternoon I’m being told there’s a problem with my ileus (small intestine) that could be anything from infection to cancer. They’re going to have to do a sigmoidoscopy to take a closer look. Great – can’t get anything to come out of my butt, and they want to stick something in it. Perfect.

The surgeon consult leaves and my family just sits back and says, "well, we can’t really do anything until we know more. So, we wait." Dad prays, everyone goes home, and I try to get comfy and go to sleep. My lower left abdomen is severely distended and, looking back, I’d become accustomed to a rather high level of pain.

I’m just going to be honest here. As I sat on the toilet Sunday, waiting for something to happen, I questioned God. "How can you get glory from this? How can I use this to reach out to others, to use ‘my story’ to show that you can relate to us? That you love us?"

Wednesday morning. 4:15am. Let’s just say, the flood gates opened. The antibiotics they’d been pumping into me via IV caused the infection to go down enough to allow stuff through my ileus. I still underwent the sigmoidoscopy but it came back all clear. Turns out my small intestine had become infected and a small portion had swelled completely shut, which was likely fueled by the infection that was in me from Halloween weekend – the same infection I was too stubborn to treat by going to the doctor.

As I sat in the bathroom of my hospital room, never being happier that I could go number two, it became all too clear. God wasn’t using this to give me a great story to bring glorious attention to Him. He was using it to get my attention. He was using it to draw me back to Him.

Had there been a distance between He and I? Not that I’d recognized. At least, not until after this whole ordeal.

For a few weeks prior to this little incident, God had become my waiter, taking orders from me when I needed Him, dismissing Him when I got what I needed. And yet He cares enough to not give up on us, to not let us go, even though we deserve to be long forgotten.

No matter the outcome – whether it’s healing or battling cancer – He is enough. He’s waiting with open arms, ready for you to return.

God is enough.

I’ve had several requests for information on the song we opened with yesterday at MCC. The song is We Will Worship You by Carlos Whittaker. Click the album art below to buy his EP (which includes We Will Worship You) over at AmazonMP3. Carlos’ full album comes out in April. You can also check out Carlos’ blog, called Ragamuffin Soul, by clicking here.