I'll pray as well.

Brad


Phil Scovell wrote:
>Virgie is back in West Virginia now.  Larry has been given about a 60
>percent chance of recovering.  Even then, the doctor said, it will be only
>because he wants to.  He was moved into another care unit in this hospital
>but he is now sedated around the clock.  His respiration's are only 10 to 11
>per minute.  Normal is 20 or so.  This is with the ventilator and his trake
>tube.  They are now turning the oxygen up more and more because he isn't
>breathing enough. Virgie was able to talk to him before they sedated him but
>he could only shake his head and squeeze her hand.  She asked him several
>questions and said, you don't want to die, do you?  He shook his head no and
>she asked the question about three different times in three different ways.
>I knew when Larry went to Mississippi, as ill as he was, that he was going
>there to die.  I love Larry very much but I don't believe he is born again.
>He has been totally unable to communicate since he went into the I C U down
>there.  I talked to him on about the 26 or 27 of December when he went into
>the hospital.  He was on oxygen at the time and he could hardly breathe.  I
>knew in my spirit that Larry was calling to say goodbye for the last time.
>The only way I know to pray now is that somehow, in some miraculous way, the
>Lord would give Larry one more chance to hear the gospel.  That means, in my
>way of thinking, either the Lord himself will have to go and talk to him or
>send one of his angels to communicate the truth to him.  It is a very
>strange way to pray but it is all he's got now because he is basically in a
>coma.  I've had several friends die in the last 10 years and some I am not
>certain were born again.  One was my best friend, too.  I am pretty certain
>he was born again but it wasn't like I didn't try because he had heard me
>preach and I had witnessed to him more than once.  It is extremely difficult
>to see a friend die that you are pretty certain is not born again.  He could
>live for weeks the way he is now but I doubt he will ever recover.
>
>Phil.