Tears of confusion? joy? awareness and recognition?
Gerald is doing a lot better, and the blockage he had has resolved for now.
He is still very ill, but also very chirpy and feeling well. Being moved to oral meds today.
The hospice doctors will decide early next week when and whether he goes home or has home visits.
The waves keep rolling in, and we're still surfing ...
L
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Kia ora Lois, Sir and whanau. Is it cool if John Pulu and I visit tomorrow? what's a good time? morning? after lunch?
ReplyDeleteMy internet is slow so can you please reply to my cell ph: 021 045 3438
Arohanui,
Kiri
Hi I'm Maddie. Andrew and I have a daughter together, Maia. How's that for an introduction. Seemed inadequate to just say I am a friend of his. I am on the healing rooms team at my church, Liberty. We have the healing rooms on the 1st and third Saturdays of the month. I'm rostered on once a month. A month ago I got the whole team to pray for Gerald during our prayer time for the morning. It was when he was in hospital. On this Saturday just gone three of us went into one of the prayer rooms and prayed. Afterwards one of the people praying said they felt something had shifted. I'm glad to hear Gerald is a bit better. I'll continue to get people to pray.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Maddie
Hi, Maddie.
ReplyDeleteLovely to hear of your involvement in my life!
Many thanks to all at Liberty who are praying!
So many heart-warming/life-affirming/God-praising situations and stories along the way.
Much love in Christ,
Dgeraldo.
Gerald,
ReplyDeleteGood to hear about those stories. I know what you mean. There was a guy who was coming to the healing rooms regularly who had throat cancer. He was not a christian but the friend who brought him was.I got to be on the team praying for him a couple of times. He commented on the peace and calm he felt whenever we prayed for him. One of the times we prayed he was in a wheelchair as the chemo had weakened his heart. After we prayed he was able to get up and walk across the room, which he couldn't do before without nearly passing out but he was fine this time. I had a vision of an envelope flying through the air and landing in a letterbox, like his healing had been delivered.
This was right before he was going on trip back to England to visit friends and family. When he came back to the healing rooms after the trip he was sitting in the encounter/waiting room and everyone suddenly gathered around him and started praying for him. I looked at him and said that this was happening because God wanted to demonstrate how much he was loved and how people had been carrying him in their hearts and praying for him. It was an amazing moment!
About a month or so later just as we were about to start the healing rooms for the morning his friend came in and let us know that he had died on the Wednesday and that about a month before he died he had become a christian.
He had received his healing. The ultimate healing being salvation.
It's been such an honour to have been involved in someone's life in this way. It's amazing how good God is too!
Maddie
Dear Maddie,
ReplyDeletePhew!
As you say, there is definitely a sense of privilege/intensity/excitement that comes from journeying closely with those who are near Eternity...
Today I sang a brief concert of songs for the Hospice nurses...one of my recent songs is simply called "For My Friends", and as I introduced it, I acknowledged that when I get to know you, and of course vice versa, we begin a friendship.
All those nurses today, the folks at church, you yourself, and more obviously folks like Andy, become part of the friendship "circle" and enter the, dare I say it, sacred connection that God links us with!
I like the image of the envelope!
Delivered indeed!