Phil,

I believe, through what I've experienced with my late husband, John, 
is that whether we pray for a recovery or not, and whether Jesus 
keeps John on earth or sends him to be with Him, he will be OK, 
nonetheless. Oh, those words are so easy to say and so devastating to 
hear from somebody else, but now, I believe those words profoundly! 
Praying for the both of them.


LOVE,
Reeva Parry.


on Monday 4/9/2007 02:13 PM, Phil Scovell said:

>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.