Dear Ones,
Hope you had a great weekend. This morning, I plan to go to Aldi’s and Exercise class. I am also excited to give you an update on Jack and give praise to the Lord.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
I want to share a recent miracle that took place through many of your prayers for Jack. He is the father of one of our son’s friends and a doctor himself. We first got a message that he had a blood clot in his stomach, sepsis, pneumonia and influenza and was in ICU. He was put on a CPAP machine, given antibiotics and Lasix to help drain the fluids. But his hemoglobin dropped way down, and WBC went way up and soon after he was taken back in for emergency surgery as he had massive bleeding, and the Dr needed to go in and cauterize the artery.

I imagine many of you were also praying for Jack’s doctor as I was, that he would have wisdom and discernment and great skill. The surgeon faced a problem for although there are 3 arteries that supply the bowel, two had been occluded and if he cauterized the third artery to the bowel, there was a 50-50 chance he would cut off the blood to the bowel which would only give him a couple days to live. But he was able to save the artery and miracle of miracles he was able to access the ulcer through an alternate route called an Arc of Buhler. Interestingly only 1-4 % of people are born with this. Fortunately, the Lord placed this in Jack’s body and knew it was needed. The surgeon had to look up the name of the artery as it is so rare, and the fact that Jack had the artery means he was able to save Jack’s life.

I can only imagine how thankful Jack is for the wonderful care given him and although he has bad vascular disease the Lord has graciously watched over him and spared his life. I was reading King David’s words in Psalm 139 from the Message translation and some words stood out to me. ”I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made!  I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out…The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.”  Before we were born, God planned our days. Let us live them out in praise to Him.

Challenge for today: Thank the Lord for each new day and live it as if it were your last day on earth.
Blessings on your week and prayers and love, Judy