Letter of Praise for the Year Ending 2024

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You never know what a day can bring…But you can have the One who will see you through it, no matter what!
After having a wonderful Christmas with my Tampa family, we left for home the day after Christmas.
Bob and I were both tired, but I had no idea what he was experiencing, because he didn’t say anything. We stopped at Walgreens in Crystal River, I believe that’s where we were, I needed some Aquaphor for my foot, where a cancer had been removed. I noticed he was eating something, and I asked him what it was. He said it was tums.
It took about 5 hours to get home but just before we arrived, he said, “I have to tell you something.” I said, “Ok what is it?” He said he needed to go to the hospital that he had been having indigestion for 3 days. I was like. “WHAT?” So, we came home first then headed to the ER.
It was very crowded, and people were coughing and looked miserable. Then as we sat down, we heard a woman begin to moan and cry out… “Why? Why? Oh God! Oh God!” I felt heartsick for her. She was in a room near the waiting room, I’m guessing she was with a doctor. Someone she loved must have died. I could hardly contain myself knowing the pain and hurt she was suffering. I began praying silently in the Spirit. Knowing I could possibly be facing the same situation unless God intervened. As I prayed for her, silence came. I don’t know what happened because we were called.
They did an EKG and that came back normal, but we had to wait 2 hours for the blood work to come back and then they’d do the process again. They were ruling out blood clots. Which thankfully none was found.
It wasn’t a good report at that point. We were told that the heart was in distress. So, he was admitted to the hospital, and they scheduled him for a heart cath.
The next day they did the heart Cath and found some blockage, but he didn’t need a stent/s it could be treated with medication.
Thank the Lord for family in healthcare I had an angel escort me through the hospital (Bob’s daughter) otherwise I don’t know what I would have done. The hospital is huge!!
And I had two more angels (Bob’s other daughter and friend) escort me, to and from the hospital because I don’t drive anymore. God is faithful, especially, in the trails. He always makes a way. Thank you, Papa God, you’ve been with me my whole life.
You gave me Bob when I didn’t think I’d ever find love again and I know you won’t take him from me now. I know we’re all going to leave this planet one day but not yet!!
Many have already gone…but with Jesus, we will see them again.
Thank you for your grace that passes understanding. Thank you for family and friends that go over and beyond the call of duty, to help when we need it the most. Thank you for praying family and friends that stand in the gap and make up the hedge when it’s so very difficult to even think when faced with life threating circumstances.
Lord, thank you for sparing Bob’s life and James’s life and Pastor Perry Dissmore, seems they have something in common at the end of this year’s 2024. But you’re not finished with them yet!!
Thank you for being with Bambi and Charles and helping them cope with the extremely serious situation they are facing.
There’s so many Jesus…I pray that 2025, will give us new hope, new beginnings and better health so that we can serve you and continue to be a blessing to all we love, know and greet! Amen!!
I wasn’t going to post anything about this but since it all turned out good, I wanted to give God Praise and thank family and friends!!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill, December 30, 2024
Isaiah 43:19 King James Version – 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
 Romans 6:3-4 New King James Version – Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
 
Marla
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and am passionate about writing. I hope you enjoy the blog and come to visit often. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2: 2-4

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