L etters from Louise
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M ILLION P RAYERS for a
Miracle by Louise Tucker Jones
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’m veering from my regular column this month to make a request of my readers. Please pray for my husband. On Thursday, May 12, Carl was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. We are stunned beyond belief. Shocked. Devastated.
“He thanked God for the many years of love we have shared as I laid my head on his chest and cried.” How does such a destructive disease harbor itself in the body? The shortness of breath, weakness and other symptoms earned him a trip to the Heart Hospital where a cath was performed, but the heart was not the problem and only weakened him further before receiving the cancer diagnosis. Now he struggles to walk from one end of our house to the other and hasn’t even started chemotherapy yet. We see an oncologist on Monday, May 16 to find out how this disease will be treated. Perhaps some of you identify with our dilemma. Maybe you have a loved one going through a similar situation. I’m so sorry for your pain and suffering. I want to help my husband and I do all I can, but I can’t perform
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a miracle, which is what he needs. However, I know a God who can perform miracles so I pray. I’m asking for a miracle of health and healing for my husband. I pray for it with every breath that I take. When I’m cooking, cleaning, walking, eating, driving, talking, listening, sleeping, I’m also praying. Even as I type this column, I pray. I am in constant communication with Jesus, reminding him that he did miracles of healing rth and the Bible says when he walked on this earth he is the same yesterday,, today and tomorrow, so I pray, plead and beg for one of those real live miracles for my husband, this man I have leaned on for support in every lifee o situation. The one who n has always held me when d I’ve cried ten thousand ul tears over life’s painful circumstances—deaths of n, our children, depression, disease, despair and so ms. many shattered dreams. I want him to hold me en another twenty years. Even nd ten years or five would find me thankful. The truth is ute that every day, every minute is a blessing.
