Dear Friends and Family the world over who are reading this blog, praying for Kurt, and wrapping the Blakes in your love:
Your hearts might have sunk from high hopes to despair after reading the preceding post (Thursday morning) from Kurt's mom, Anna. Ours sure did. Steve and I hugged and cried, but then agreed -- we are not ready to summarily cast aside faith and accept that those two medical scenarios sum up the extent of God's love or power, We remind ourselves that God's full plan for Kurt still remains to be revealed. We cannot foresee the ultimate outcome, or the meaning, or what marvelous impact God will ultimately work from all this. Yes, Anna dearest. We'll stand beside you and look the worst case scenario right in the eye, and no matter the outcome, trust fully in the old saying that as God has led us to it, He will lead us through it. But we simply cannot know His plan on this day, and therefore must not lose hope. Need a little more help banishing despair? Here’s a message that came straight from an angel named Alison, someone who posted these words to this blog only a few hours ago...leaving them for us to find just moments ago, when we were in need of them.
"...I used to drive 70 miles once a week to visit a friend's 12-year-old in a coma who'd been hit by a car and not expected to recover from PVS (permanent vegetative state) status. That was 20 years ago. He's a little slow, he has a limp, but he graduated from college. So much for vegetable status. When it is our turn to recover, we do. (I also learned in that experience to pray for the doctors and nurses taking care of him.)"
Thanks, Alison, for being our angel today, and telling a story that lifts us right back up from despair and fires our hope anew. (And P.S. – there are LOTS of true stories like this one. Just ask Kurt’s Aunt Patti. Readers, please keep posting your stories of encouragement!)
from Kurt's Auntie Terese and Uncle Steve
West Bend, Wisconsin
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Although it may look not so good at this point, the doctors and nurses have no idea what God has planned for this young boy... They can only see what the tests and reports can tell them... never what is REALLY going to happen.
You must never loose hope. I see this as a positive thing as how we are going to prove the doctors wrong when he makes a full recovery.
Kurt and the Blake family are in my prayers.
Dont Hope;;
EXPECT.
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