Okay, Phil,still praying  here!  Kathy



KAt 03:13 PM 4/9/2007, you wrote:
>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.