PLEASE PRAY!!!!

Our pastor's son, Adam, one of our youth, was in a bad car accident Friday evening. He was driving too fast and was over the line. When he saw an oncoming car he swerved to miss them and ran directly into a tree. He hit his head on the back windshield. This caused the severity of his injuries. His brain bled from three places and they couldn't get the wound to stop bleeding even though they had stapled the opening shut. His parents were not given any chance of him surviving. They were just waiting and praying, as the rest of us were. This afternoon the bleeding finally stopped. He was stable enough to move from the ER to a room in the nuero ICU. He's been sedated, but they've allowed him to wake up some to see how his comprehension was. He aswered the questions asked of him correctly. There still waiting to see what will happen. The doctors say that they'll be better able to gauge his injuries after Tuesday. It's been a whirlwind of emotions. We aren't really close to him, he doesn't attend many youth functions. He has a past. He totaled Mark's car about a month and a half ago and Mark said he saw dramatic changes in him. I don't know what was going on with him to be driving so recklessly, but I know this. . . . I was planning on attending a funeral Monday or Tuesday this morning, tonight, there's a ray of hope. My God is so incredible. He truly is the great healer and only He can let us go on or stay here. When all we can do is pray, He is the only one to get the glory. I'm not sure if Adam will live or die, but I know it's all in God's control. He's 17. He is one blessed young man to still be breathing. He wasn't expected to live this long, who knows how long he has left on this earth. Please just pray for peace. For comfort and change in the days ahead. Pray that all this will work to good for His glory and not ours or anything the doctors could've done.

Life and death. With my doula work, I'm constantly in the midst of life beginning. With my heart, God's been showing me what it really means to be alive and how contentment affects that. Now with Adam and Ben, death seems so close. It's always that close. No one knows the day or the hour. Why waste time? Why waste anything? I just want each of you to know that I love you. Each of you hold a special place in my heart. I can't honestly say that I think of each of you every day, but about every three days you all cycle through my prayers. For so long I've fought being so far away, but you know, I think that through being away I'm closer. I think of each of you and my heart just wrings with love for our relationship, whatever it has grown to become. Thank you for being my friends. Thank you family for remembering to read and spending the time to stay up on me. I wish we had more words to express the depth of my love and gratitude.

Abbi