The Unexpected Miracle

-
Wilson's godparents.
Friends that change our lives for the better.
You are already missed Chuck Cope.

This past week has been one of high and lows.  I can't remember what I've shared, but we went from being with these friends in Charlottesville last Friday and hearing a discouraging report regarding the hope of a much needed liver transplant, to a 10PM phone call that same night saying UVA had a liver on the way for our friend.  We headed back up Saturday morning and were elated when the call came that the transplant was successful, but the next 48 hours would be crucial. Calls came that the kidneys were not functioning and then Sunday that he was being taken back to the OR for bleeding. Tuesday morning the call was to come quickly for his heart was struggling.  

That night I sat in that ICU room and asked God this question..."When do I stop praying for the miracle Father?"  His reply, "Never!  For if I take him home, that in itself is the ultimate miracle."

Wednesday morning with all his family holding onto him in that ICU room, we saw the miracle occur.  Tomorrow my husband will honor the requests of one of his best friends and perform his memorial service.

 April 25, 2019 our friend knocked on our front door, distraught and looking for answers. During our conversation he found Jesus who transformed his life and gave him the hope of seeing Jesus face to face. I can only imagine what Chuck is experiencing first hand.
"Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door,  I will come in and we will eat together. Everyone who wins the victory will sit with me on my throne, just as I won the victory and sat with my Father on his throne."
Revelation 3:20-21

Popular posts from this blog

She Fought the Good Fight

-
Image
February 27 Bible Gateway's verse yesterday was: This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him . 1 John 4:9 A fitting verse for the day my everyday friend, soul sister, monster of the faith and mischievous partner in crime, Kaye, left this world behind and headed to her heavenly home. My husband was able to be by her bedside and said he knew she heard the words of our faith that he shared. Her sweet daughter held the phone up to her ear so I could say good-bye and the brightest single star you have ever seen shown through my bedroom window as she exited this earth! Yesterday, my heart literally ached so badly that I told the Lord, "Take me too!" Wouldn't she have been surprised if I had snuck up on her in heaven and said, "Thought you were going somewhere without me, did ya." When we received the call she was ready to go, I called out to the Lord for comfort and He led me to the Bible Gat
Read more

Marriage Matters #1

-
Image
One of life's deepest hurts is when the one you love is unfaithful. Forty years ago, I remember an older friend, whose wife had been unfaithful and left him for another man saying to me..."Boo, I hope you never experience having the person you love and are married to, living 8 blocks away loving someone else." Deep hurt. They divorced. The wife of another friend of ours was having an affair with a fellow church member and a neighbor of theirs who lived 5 blocks away. She moved in with this man and our friend said one evening he was walking by the house where they were living together and saw them sitting at a table having a candlelight dinner. Ugh. The torment. I've always said it would be aweful to find out the person you were married to and  loved deeply loved another.  Hmm. We are the bride of Christ.  Is He our first love? 2 Peter 2:14 says: They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed
Read more

Are You Sinking... Being Tossed About?

-
Image
  A text came in from our neighbor recently, on a cold blustery day, when I was home with a stomach bug and awful headache. He said, "My canoe blew off our dock and has floated over to your shore."  And I'm thinking..."And you want me to do what?" I explained my husband was at work, but could help in the afternoon. I went to the window and could see the boat being tossed back and forth along our shore line. One minute it was close to our main dock and the next the winds had shifted and it was 200 feet in the opposite direction.  What I then realized is it had been taking on water. A text came again that he was in his car and driving around to our property.  Climbing out of my night shirt, I put on warm ups, UGGS boots and a hooded coat and limped outside to see how I could help. When I arrived to the shore line, the neighbor had tossed a 3 prong hook tied to a rope into the boat and was pulling it to the shore with one hand.  He had recently had hand surgery and
Read more