Phil, A Men. You are a real trooper for the Lord.
BBless you.
Vinny
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: About John
>I won't talk about any of the medical because Sandy updated everybody.
>John
> is critical, of course, but the surgery accomplished all they expected. I
> got to the hospital about 2 in the morning and got to pray with John just
> before they rolled him out. I had been asleep for an hour or so when the
> call came from Vicki. Sandy got me up at 1:30 and
> Gretchen took me to the hospital. I left after the second report of
> John's
> condition and got home about 9:30 and after eating a little, went to lay
> down for a couple of hours. Since I now feel like a truck ran over me, I
> cannot imagine what Vicki must be like. Vicki has gone home for awhile
> since John was moved to the place where severe heart cases are cared for.
> This ain't no circus. Like I said, and I am not just speaking of how I
> feel
> physical either, I cannot even imagine how Vicki feels. Her mom, she is
> in
> her early eighties, left sometimes about 3 in the morning and Sandy's
> sister
> came to the hospital and all three of us, along with Rory, sat in an empty
> waiting room throughout the night. By 9 in the morning, the large room
> was
> filled with other people waiting. John called just before they went to
> the
> hospital and asked me to pray with him and not because he was looking
> forward to it. I was glad to have arrived just before they moved him into
> surgery. It is 1 PM as I type this. When John called me last night
> during
> the late evening hours, I first told him what I believed the Holy Spirit
> had
> just told me less than 5 minutes before he called. The impression was so
> strong inside, I nearly called Vicki's cell phone but I didn't because I
> figured they were in the Emergency Room and had more to worry about than
> my
> phone call. What I heard was, John is going to be ok. Not right now
> necessarily, but in the long run, he will be all right. I am sitting here
> holding a check John handed me yesterday for our church offering and
> crying
> for my friend. I don't know the meaning of the words I heard exactly
> because I am too close to the situation but I will speak life and lived
> based upon the Word of the Lord because they are eternal. What if you are
> wrong, I hear someone saying? What if you are wrong and Jesus is right.
> I
> do know one thing that I have had to learn the hard way over 50 years of
> walking with the Lord, Jesus is always right regardless of the
> circumstances
> or how things turn out. Nobody said life was going to be easy either.
>
> Phil.
>
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