PRAYER & PRAISE
Dear Single Hearts -

Margaret and I both wanted to take this opportunity to express to you our deepest gratitude for your faith
and prayers during my recent stay at the hospital.  Without our Single Heart Family we would feel lost,
particularly in moments like these when we so despeately needed your faith and prayers being bound
together as one with ours, believing God for even the miraculous.  God's Godness surpasses the bounds
of what we could ask or imagine.

For those of you who do not know the story...let me explain.

Friday morning I developed pain in my lower left leg from the calf down to the tips of my toes.  The best I
could describe it was like a 'charlie horse.'  I thought that it would resolve itself, as those things usualy do,
on my drive to work.  But during that 30 minute drive it only became worse.  By mid-morning at work, my
toes and foot had developed a tingling and then my toes went severely numb.  They were so numb that
they actually hurt.  By noon the pain, tingling and numbness had subsided and I thought things were on
the mend, but then by mid-afternoon the pain, tingling and numbness returned along with the realization
that my foot had lost all color and was turning cold.  

When I retuned home around 6:30, we went to an urgent care in Garner where it was diagnosed as
most-likely a vascular (circulatory) problem...probably a blood clot.  They sent me to the emergency room
for treament.

At the emergency room, the staff found virtually no pulse in my left foot as the numbness and coldness
persisted.  The ER Doctor expressed his professional opinion that it was almost definitely a blod clot
which would require a vascular surgery...nothing else fit the syptoms.  When we suggested the possibility
that maybe this could be treated with medication, he responded that this would not be the case...it would
almost dinfinitely require sugery.  "If someone told me that I had the vascular problems that you have
evident here, at age 53, I would be scared to death," was his assessment.

Enter the Prayer Waririors.  By morning Saturday all symptoms had all but disappeared.  The tingling and
pain were gone.  The discoloration was almost normal and the coldness had nearly disappeared.  When
the vascular surgeon came in and examined me, he found nothing to be alarmed about and suggested
that there was no problem.

Saturday afternoon I had a Doppler Test where they listened to all of the major arteries in my neck and
left leg...all clear...absolutely no blockage or signs of the alleged clot.  Later that afternoon I was given an
MRA (an arteriogram) which, along with a dye, checked all of the major arteries from the waist down.  All
clear...absolutely no blockages or signs of the alleged clot.

When I was being discharged my nurse told me she had asked the doctor what had happened to me.  
Why did I have these symptoms when they had been unable to find the clot.  His answer was simply, "I
don't know."

We believe God has performed a bona-fide, certified miracle and give all of the glory to him and thank
each of you for your part in this.  Our part is to pray in faith, and believe.  It is then God's part to accept
the sacrifice of worship, exhibited by ur faith, and then to act on it.  Text-book stuff.  
Prayer...faith...miracle.  Thanks to God and Thanks to you!

Humbled to be in the Master's Service,

David and Margaret   
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