Good morning.  My prayer request is for my mother in law (94) who is in the hospital dying.  Her kidneys are 13%, her heart is 30%, fluid building throughout her body, has shoulder pain indicating heart (heart attack about 12 days ago), pneumonia and got MRSA in the hospital.

Sounds like a lost cause, doesn’t it?  Mom is a woman of faith.  She has spent her entire life praying for her family, her church and for others.

She wants to go home to Jesus.  I told her it was okay.

However, I don’t believe it is the right time; only God’s timing will do.  Even though my sister in law and my hubby would like to see the suffering end for their mother (and so would I), she still clings to life with a sharp mind, a willing spirit and a weakened body.

Please pray for our Heavenly Father to heal her of her pain.  She has to exercise some while in the skilled nursing or Medicare won’t pay for her to be there and we have no other place to take her.  Each day those special nurses have her move her arms across her chest, sit on the edge of the bed and get into a wheelchair for about 10 minutes.  This is considered exercise.  She is in constant pain.  Her kidneys ache so much.

God still good.  He is still willing to heal us even when all seems lost.

Give up on a strong 94 year old woman because of the illness and her age?  Never.  God has not given up on her.  She still has much to teach us until she draws her last breath.

So please join me in prayer and support for this wonderful mother in law of mine who is still teaching her children, daughter in law, grandchildren and others to live life to the fullest until she draws her last breath.

Celebrate the older people in your life.  They do have much wisdom, love, compassion and teaching us to have more faith through their daily lives for they trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.  What a blessing!

Tobey Craft