Phil, A Men.  You are a real trooper for the Lord.
BBless you.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
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.
>