Of course, we’ve been writing about my mom for the past month with prasies for our Father for the miracles that he’s worked in our lives. You might think that this would mean that we may have used up our allotment with Him………..But, He IS a very giving Lord and yesterday he proved to us that his love has no boundries and that there is no end to the miracles that he is willing to share with us.
- Dad in Overland Park — May 2009
We got a call yesterday morning from Craig’s sister, Denise. After she began to tell me what was happening, she began to cry and was very upset. Craig’s dad, Bob, was on the way to a hospital in Des Moines. He was having a heart attack, and it didn’t sound good. The weather in Oskaloosa, Iowa, was terrible, and they couldn’t air lift him to Des Moines. So, as we were speaking on the phone, he was in a screaming ambulance on his way to his fate.
We stopped everything we were doing and began to pray……pray very specifically about Bob’s heart and blood vessels…………very specifically about the safety of the ambulance ride and his wife and son, who were trying in vain to follow that ambulance……..we prayed for the doctors and nurses that would take care of him once he got to the hospital and that they would move swiftly and with purpose………and THEN we waited for word……..for specifics…..and decisions to be made……….
About 2 hours later we learned that what Bob was having was a very major heart attack………..As so many stubborn people experience……he didn’t want to go to the doctor with it………. but finally buckled under the urgency of his wife, Marlene. (Let this be a good lesson to those of who wonder if you should listen to YOUR WIFE!!!)) :o) If he had waited………..even a few minutes longer…….he might not be with us, today.
With tears in his eyes my husband thought about his last visit with his father. He was cherishing that visit the way we should cherish every moment that we get to share with someone we love……….but, so often we don’t think about it being an important event in our lives. It only becomes important if it proves to be the last one that we get to have………. He thought about the what-ifs………and we talked about David Sullivan, a friend that we know who just recently lost his father…………..shortly after a family celebration that everyone was able to share in.
He made it in time to the Des Moines Mercy Hospital and in the Cath Lab they were able to remove the blockage and turn his prognosis around. We don’t know the extent of the heart muscle damage, but it sounds like there is probably very little permanant damage.
Praise God and Thank YOU again for being so good to us.
One of Our Recent Beautiful Sunsets as Seen Out the Back Door