The Power of PRAYER

Right off the bat, I'm one of those people who pray a lot. I'm the person that old people say God will turn a deaf ear on cause I'm bugging him (lol). But I was raised in the church, my dad is a preacher, and I've had some situations where I wasn't supposed to make it out and I'm still here so I definately know the power of prayer.

2009 hasn't really been kind to my family. One of my uncles who lived a long and fulfilling life passed away. I didn't see him much but I think the oldest family members are those who you really don't want to go. I mean, you don't want any family member to die but you tend to want to hold on to the oldest just because. Then my grandfather had a heart attack and that was a lot of stress on everybody because we really had to step back and realize what we had and how it could've been taken away from us just that quick.

Fast forward to now. Early on in March my grandmother--who is my life--went for some tests. Well come to find out, she has 4 blocked arteries and she needs to have bypass surgery. Everyone knows that's a big surgery so we (the family) started preparing ourselves for a long and drawn out process. So Monday, March 9th at 6:30 am they took her back for surgery. A little after 2 I think, she was out and in recovery. The next day, she was sitting up in a chair for a little while. Wednesday, they had her doing some walking up and down the halls. Thursday she was still walking and sitting up and doing really well. So Friday I called and checked on her and my mom told me they had just got her up for a shower. This much progress in a week?? The doctors even said that's unheard of. Well thanks to all of our (my) prayer, she went home yesterday evening. Now tell me God hasn't been good to my Sweetie!

Say what you want, I'll pray until I'm blue in the face. I pray for everybody and just about everything. You may say it doesn't work but like I said, I've had some situations and prayer was really the only way out and it ultimately restored my faith.

Some call it luck but I call it grace.