Posted on 01/25/2007 9:37:13 AM PST by GretchenM
Edited on 02/14/2007 3:30:51 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
My aunt and uncle sent this out to our family at 6:30 AM today. Carrie is my young cousin, a very gifted artist, and the second eldest among her siblings. She and her family are in Michigan.
Prayer reqeust from my aunt and uncle (Carrie is their granddaughter).
This morning on her way to work Carrie's car slid on the highway and into a tree. She has very bad injuries, especially to her head. Her brain is swelling and she is now in surgery. They plan to open her skull to allow for the swelling, and she is not responding.They don't give her parents a lot of hope. We are telling everyone so you can join us in praying for our dear Caroline. They called her parents about 7:45 this morning and they're at the hospital now.
Gretchen ... any news on Carrie?
Her mom wrote on May 2 (I didn't include this in a pinged post, just pinged LadyDoc to it in reply to her post): "Her ENT ordered a couple of new trache collars, and they are the newer ones that don't have a balloon. But he won't install them for a couple of weeks." This is to keep her windpipe from being damaged by her trache collar.
On Sundays or Mondays, my uncle and aunt generally send out a family newsletter Email update, advising what's going on with their daughters and their families, and other family members when items of note come up. Generally, if Carrie's mom and dad, or her sister and brother-in-law, haven't sent an update before then, I will have news by Sunday or Monday each week on any developments. Hope that helps as far as knowing when to look for more news.
Her mom is putting together the many prayer cloths that others have sent to them, to make a blanket of sorts to lay over Carrie. I am writing an Email to her mom, telling her that Joseph's coat of many colors, and how the father's (Father's) favor was upon Joseph, keeps coming to mind when I think of all those prayer cloths being sewn together to cover her. There's more to that which I hope to gather and post soon.
God bless you for your constancy in prayer.
Thank you for letting me know. I hope she gets the surgery that is needed to replace the brain flap. I knew she was suppose to have it Tuesday, but it was cancelled, I was just hoping that it had been done.
Prayes for Carrie & Family ~P~
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms in your family. They are like angels with their love an devotion. Many the blessings pour down today.
Prayers For Carrie & Family ~Pandora~
From my aunt and uncleFrom GretchenCarrie had some tests done last week, and they came back good. She is being treated for conjunctivitis in her right eye.
Her mom made some Smoothies for Carrie to have through her stomach feeding tube. She is tolerating the real people food very well.
A while ago Carrie's parents asked those who were willing to send prayer cloths so her mom could sew them into one cloth to lay over Carrie, in the manner of Acts 19:11, 12 "Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them." Her parents have felt they are to focus on making their home a place where the Holy Spirit is most welcome.
I sent a cloth and some anointing oil from the local International Association of Healing Rooms that is near me. The idea kept working and working within my mind, so that I wrote and sent the following Email to Carrie's mother on Friday, May 11.
Hi M,The other night when I was thinking of the prayer cloth you are putting together, the thought of Joseph's coat of many colors (Genesis 37) came to me strongly. ... here are some of my thoughts so far.
There were many plots afoot concerning Joseph, different ideas among his brothers as to how to deal with him, but it was God's sovereign will that prevailed. God spared Joseph's life, He lifted him out of more than one horrible pit, and saved more than Israel and Egypt in the process.
22 And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood [don't kill him], but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
23 So it came to pass ... that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.
24 Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. [I believe the Lord spared Carrie a number of complications in the way her accident occurred.]
25 ... Then there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt [interesting that those who took Joseph up were traveling from Gilead, carrying balm].
26 So Judah [his name meaning "praise") said to his brothers, ...
27 "Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh." And his brothers listened.
33 [His father said], ... "Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces."We know, of course, that he wasn't. The "evidence" of the damage to Joseph proved not to be the final verdict about his fate. And similarly I believe it will be the same with Carrie, that the doctors' careful diagnoses will prove not to be the ultimate result of God's working in Carrie's life.
Reading this verse, "23 So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him," what comes to my mind is a returning to Carrie of the Father's coat of many colors, a restoration of that which was lost to the beloved child through a wrenching act of great harm. In this case, it is her brothers and sisters in Christ who are acting, not to remove, but to restore the varicolored "coat," demonstrating the love of the members of Christ's body for their sister.
May God use this covering mightily to build faith in all who come near Carrie, and also use it to bless her. I pray the presence of God's glory and holiness and healing become so strong upon that cloth, being renewed each morning as the dew is upon the grass, that Carrie feels her soul being pulled upward in yearning to commune with God. I pray she feels the love and healing power, amplified to her, that was sent out with each portion of cloth, and in time, feels the weight of God's glory resting so heavily on that cloth, cloak, "coat", that she simply is not able to remain unresponsive to His presence and glory and will sit up and rise up and take up her life again. I invite the Spirit of the Living God to hover over that covering and over Carrie, brooding over her as He did when He brought order out of a formless, chaotic void.
Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters [we are more than 90 percent water!]. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
I call Carrie out of the darkness of her current situation and into the light of the Lamb's face, in Jesus' Name, and into the light of full consciousness and alertness, nothing being left behind of her understanding. 1 Peter 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Amen!
Love,
GretchenCarrie's mom sent this reply today.
I really like the analogy of Joseph's coat of many colors. That is wonderful. I am going to write to people that sent a prayer cloth and include a photo of it, and would like to include what you wrote as well. Very cool!I finished the covering (it turned into a quilt!) on Friday, which is the day you wrote [which is amazing, because I had been sick all that week, and suddenly on Friday my thoughts cleared and my body was strong enough for me to sit and write down my thoughts]. I was happy with how it turned out.
I just read your letter again-it is awesome! I copied it and put it in her room. Thank you so much, Gretchen!
With much love,
M
prayer up for carrie!
Prayers continue
Continued prayers for Carrie.
Prayers continued!
Carrie is on my Rosary prayer list daily.
What a wonderful story Gretchen...it sounds like God was working in you and your Aunt at the same time...with the same goal.
I can only think that Carrie will be most blessed by you and the others working for her recovery.
I do continue to pray for Carrie...and I hope that if I can help no matter how minutely....then it would be such an honor.
God Bless you Gretchen, Carrie and all.
sleuth
Notre père, qui êtes aux cieux!
Que votre nom soit sanctificié. Que votre règne vienne.
Que votre volonté soit faite, sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donnez-nous aujourd'hui notre poindre ce jour.
Pardonnez-nous nos offenses, comme nous pardonnons aussi a ceux, qui nous ont offensés,
et ne nous soumetez pas à la tentation, mais délivrez-nous du mal.
Car c'est à toi qu'appartiènne, le régne, la puissance et la gloire, pour les siècles des siècles.
Amen.
Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâces,
le Seigneur est avec vous, vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,
et Jésus le fruit de vos entrailles est béni.
Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu, priez pour nous pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant, et à l'heure de notre mort. Ainsi-soit-il.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Prayers for you!
I am reminded of St. Veronica, with the cloth.
Appreciate the update Gretchen. Prayers continue for Carrie’s total recovery.
Prayers for Carrie & the family ~Pandora~
Our Christ Most Merciful, Thank You for Your Love for the Daughter of Your Heart. Be Glorified through and in her, O Lord, and Cover her in Your Gentle Healing Grace. Spiritually my Heart is Sending Carrie a Lovely Rose. May our Love for her be a Sweet Fragrance unto Thee.
Grant Strength to All who Love Your Precious Child. Bring Restoration to Your Lamb, as we Pray in our Jesus' Name, amen.
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