Jody viewed her life as...
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Jody viewed her life as both a gift and a miracle. Having suffered a near-fatal heart
attack, she viewed her remaining days as a gift from God. The fact that she is alive is a
miracle. At one point, the doctors told her husband that they did not think she would live
through the night. Although they were doing all they could, they did not offer much hope.
The prayer chain at church had been activated and people began praying for her.
Jody would be transferred to another hospital in a metropolitan city for further treatment. For several days, she lingered between life and death and in spite of the odds, she lived. Eventually, Jody would go home and return to her church. She was never the same person she had once been. Her brush with death changed her entire outlook. In her remaining days, however long that might be, she wanted to tell others about Jesus. She reached out to people in ways she never had before, telling of her own experience, and people listened, with some responding to the faith.
Martha and her sister, Mary, were grieving over the loss of their brother. The shortest verse in scripture tells us that "Jesus wept." Yet Jesus offered hope, when he told Martha, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" And indeed she had.
Jody would be transferred to another hospital in a metropolitan city for further treatment. For several days, she lingered between life and death and in spite of the odds, she lived. Eventually, Jody would go home and return to her church. She was never the same person she had once been. Her brush with death changed her entire outlook. In her remaining days, however long that might be, she wanted to tell others about Jesus. She reached out to people in ways she never had before, telling of her own experience, and people listened, with some responding to the faith.
Martha and her sister, Mary, were grieving over the loss of their brother. The shortest verse in scripture tells us that "Jesus wept." Yet Jesus offered hope, when he told Martha, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" And indeed she had.
