The Veggie Tale

This morning, as I was tending to Paul's eye, we prayed together for St. Raphael, Medicine from God, to pray for Paul's continued healing. We remembered the 2 other young men whose mothers have been so good to our family with sharing their love and support this past year. Gabriel is praying that he will walk again and Eric is prayerful about finding a job, given his physical limitations.

Somehow all this led me to share with Paul the story of how he woke up. I told him it was Thanksgiving night, after we had left. But we had left with an inkling that Paul had heard his brother Jon talking to him. Jon had put one earphone in Paul's ear, then placed the other one in his own. He played the music he and Paul had recorded together. He was reminding Paul of how they had worked through certain parts, or how many times that he had to re-record certain sections. Paul had brought his right arm up across his chest, like he was going to play his guitar. We all looked at each other.......Wide Eyed! Minutes later, Paul's eye fluttered a bit. There was no other indication he was going to possibly come out of his coma except when we gathered around his bed to pray before we left. He yawned a very big yawn. I said I didn't think people yawned while they were in a coma. But, what did I know and maybe I was just trying to see something that wasn't there. We left and did not say anything to the nurse. She told us the next day that at 11:00 PM, she was holding Paul's hand and asked him to squeeze it and he did. She knew he was coming to, but it was too late to call us.

At 6:30 the next morning, Paul was awake and responding to the doctor who had tried to first encourage us, then guilt us, into removing the respirator and let Paul die peacefully.

I was sharing this all with Paul this morning and when I was talking about Jon, he teared up and said that was so neat what Jon had done. Then I told him how we all became his advocate to keep the doctors moving forward in saving his life. I asked him, "And wasn't that so cool how it was the doctor who said you would be a vegetable at best if you did survive, is the one who found you awake?" Paul looked at me, smiled and said, "Yeah.............way to go vegetable farmer."

Another bit of Paul's humor to start my day.

John (12:24-26)

"Amen, Amen I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will
preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me."

May God lead us to do all we can to bring about His glory today.
Love,
Jon and Rebecca