Jeff and Tiffany Nardoni’s son, Thao, had been a patient in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at OSF St. Francis Children’s Hospital in Peoria, Illinois. Thao dealt with illness of an unknown cause for the last three years, and was received into God’s presence on Friday, January 13. Please continue to pray for God’s peace to comfort Thao’s family, as they will miss him dearly. Below are some recent postings from Jeff and Tiffany.
7:42am Jan 17
http://commercial-news.com/obituaries/x1929698755/Jeffery-Thao-Nardoni.
10:31pm Jan 16
Hey, I’m sorry, I’m meant to do this earlier.
Thao’s (Ta-yo) Visitation is January 19th from 3-8 pm at Sunset Funeral Home in Danville IL
Thao’s Funeral is January 20th at 1 pm at Crossroads Christian Church in Danville IL.
We have requested that if anyone is interested in sending flowers that you would send or bring a stuffed animal instead so we can share with the Children’s Hospital in Peoria.
This information will be available tomorrow in his obituary in the Commercial News tomorrow and the News Gazette on Wednesday. Thanks again everyone for such kind words and all of your prayers.
Jeff
Also, so much thanks to everyone who has given to us. We are absolutely amazed at your generosity. Thank you so much.
8:12am Jan 15
1 You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
Psalm 139
1:16am Jan 15
Psalm 77 New International Version (NIV)
For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.
1 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. 2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.
3 I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint. [b]
4 You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. 5 I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; 6 I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
7 “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? 8 Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? 9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”
10 Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. 11 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. 12 I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”
13 Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God? 14 You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. 15 With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
16 The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed. 17 The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth. 18 Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. 19 Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.
20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Friday at 1:57pm Jan 13
Thao’s with Jesus. Thank you for everything. We’ll keep you updated
January 12 at 5:15pm
Thank you so much for your prayers. Sorry for the delay in updates. We just spoke with the doctors and they said that they are out of options. We might be coming to the end. Thank you so much, all of you for everything. We love you all so much. Please keep praying for peace in all of this.
Jeff
12:20pm Jan 9
I want to start by again thanking everyone for everything. It’s getting redundant but not to us. We have received so much from all of you and we’re so encouraged by every way you have made your love known to us. We’ve had some awesome food and an incredible amount of financial support. People have been giving through the fundly account that Cole Wear set up for us and people have been giving incredibly outside of that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can’t tell you what it means to me that I don’t have be back home working and separated from my family.
Love you all
Jeff
1:17pm Jan 8
There have been so many lies infilitrating my mind the past day. It’s so hard to wrap my head around the complete goodness and steadfast love of God sometimes… well, all the time. But I will tell you that when He’s ready to reveal it, He doesn’t hold back. A day before I was asking God to use me and mold me and the next day I’m a heaping mess of uncertainty, anger, and frustration. Why would God…? Is He using this to teach me…? All at the expense of…? If He’s angry with me why doesn’t he bring it all down on me and stop using my child?
He spoke this answer to me today
“Jeff, just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don’t ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I needed it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”
(The Shack)
and then I read this in Garth Cushman’s Update page
I John 4:18 “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”
It’s funny how quickly I can complicate God’s steadfast love. I’m slowly learning not to look so closely at the good and the bad reports. I don’t want to be changed based on those things, I want to be changed because I’m walking through all of this darkness with Christ recognizing that if anyone understands the pain and torment of all of this, it’s Him. And in that, there’s all the grace and peace I could possibly need. I keep coming back to “If you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things for you died (to myself) and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, you will appear with him in glory.” That promise isn’t for when I’m gone, it’s for right now. God please bring Your Kindgom and have Your way.
9:31pm Jan 6
We ran into two parents this week who spoke about things that their children experienced through their illnesses. They spoke about being comforted by Jesus and angels and that dying is okay and doesn’t hurt. I’m telling you what, I know God wanted me to hear that. It was confirmation that my God cares more about my child than I possibly could and he has complete access and control. How cool is that.
Please pray for Tiffany and I. Pray that God would continue to hold on to us and that we would be moldable and used by him. I read this today in a devotional:
God Looks for Clay
God knows how to bring salvation to your family, your friends, your community, and your world. Accordingly, He looks for those who will allow Him to shape them into the instruments He requires to do His divine work. Clay has no plans of its own, no aspirations for service, not reluctance to perform its given task. It is just clay. Moldable, pliable, totally submissive to the will of its master. At times we excitedly announce to God: “I’ve discovered my strengths and gifts, and now I know how I can best serve You!” At other times we inform Him, “I am aware of what my weaknesses are, so I know which tasks I’m not capable of doing for You.” Yet this is not characteristic of clay. God is not limited to working with our strengths (2 Cor. 12:9-10). He can mold us into whatever kind of instrument He requires. When God’s assignment demands humility, he finds a servant willing to be humbled. When His work requires zeal, He looks for someone He can fill with His Spirit. God uses holy vessels, so He finds those who will allow Him to remove their impurities. It is not a noble task ,being clay. There is no glamour to it, nothing boastworthy, except that it is exactly what almighty God is looking for. Compliant, moldable, yielded clay. If your tendency is to tell the Father what you can and cannot do for Him, submit to HIS agenda and allow Him to shape you into the person He wants you to be. Like clay.
If you do a word study on humility you will find that humility is purely dependence on God, completely falling into his grace, mercy, faith, hope, and love. Everyday we’re reminded that he’s all we have. Every night too for that matter. By God’s grace we can “count it all joy…for the testing of your faith produces steadfastness (in Christ), that we may be perfect and complete (in Christ) not lacking in anything. There is a promise of his faithfulness, his hope, and his love.
On a side note all of this, some friends and family set up a site that handles fundraisers for stuff like this. Please do not feel obligated. I stress that sooooo much. God has been taking care of us and will continue to provide. Some people have been asking for the best way to send some money our way and Cole Wear went out to research the best way to make it happen. Again, many of you have already given so much and we would really love to make sure you know how much it means that you have been so prayerful and thoughtful even through the middle of the night. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything. The meals have been awesome, the apartment we have been staying is awesome, and all of you are awesome 
Anyway, here is the link to the website. If you are not comfortable using your credit card online, it’s completely understandable. You will find on the link that there’s an address to our church in Danville that has been receiving on our behalf as well. Again, I stress that you not feel obligated.
http://www.fundly.com/thethaonardonifund
Love you all so much. Thank you as always.
Jeff
5:28pm Jan 5
Thank you so much for EVERYTHING! We’ve been blessed in so many ways and I can’t help but thank God for you people who are attentive to him and calling in your life. Soooooo many people who have given and just said that God prompted them. That’s incredible because that means that we’re not the only one’s being blessed but that you get to experience God in such a different way. Love you all. Thank you so much for your prayers ESPECIALLY. It’s quite a different way of experiencing God and man how He works in everyone through prayer. I wish I could even explain the stuff we’re seeing every day. Changes in people that I never thought possible. There’s a lot more going on than we could possibly imagine. He’s SO good.
Peace out