Amazing Grace

Greetings from Haiti… Below is a post that I wanted to share before leaving but have not been able to have decent internet access. 

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of ministering at a Nursing home in Il. My friends Donna and Leo are hospice volunteers and they allowed me to tag along with them on a visit to “happy hour” at one of the places they volunteer.

There is a dear lady there by the name of Grace. Grace was independent until Dec. of 2010. She happened to be at the very same nursing home visiting a friend of hers when she had a stroke. She was fortunate that she fell over on to her friends bed and not the floor or she may have had much more damage to her body than she ended up with. The staff of the nursing home was able to get her to a local hospital quickly and she was treated. She was blind for a while and I believe she was also paralyzed to an extent.

The day that I saw her she was praising God that she was still alive and thankful for her family that supported her no matter what. She told me the story of her husband cheating on her and leaving her a number of years before. She was careful to say that she didn’t want to dwell on that, she only wanted me to know how the Good Lord had comforted her and taken care of her before and she knew when she had the stroke that He would do it again.

What a marvelous testimony. I had the joy of praying with her and sharing stories until Leo came and swooped me up.

Grace asked me to pray for her family. She is earnestly hoping for her daughter to accept Christ in her life. While her daughter is supportive of her, she does not know the Lord as her Savior. Will you join me in thanking the Lord for Grace’s life, her testimony and her complete and total healing? She wants to be able to go home again, but more than that she wants to know that her child and grandchildren will join her in her heavenly home one day.

It was a great day and this lovely woman was indeed Amazing