“This means tremendous joy to you, I know,
even though you are temporarily harassed
by all kinds of trials and temptations.
This is no accident—it happens to prove your faith,
which is infinitely more valuable than gold.”
~1 Peter 1:6-7 PH~
Please add my 16 year old great-niece, Rachel McClain Budde to thepraylink and please keep her and our family in your prayers. Rachel is the granddaughter of Barbara Didone, neice of Jesse Didone, daughter of Jessica. Rachel has been having some problems and has been found to have a tumor pressing on the main artery going to her heart. They are not sure yet whether it is malignant or not and what it is actually attached to. She will be seeing a surgeon at Oschner Hospital in New Orleans today to see where things go from here.
Sue Minor Tucker
Maggie Lee Henson
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:11 PM, CDT
Well, she still has a temper, so that’s a blessing:) Even in her coma, Maggie Lee is exerting her will. The nurse suctioned her chest and she got really ticked off: blood pressure went through the roof.
SERIOU
The doctors have never been able to keep the ICP Rate where it needs to be, so PLEASE PRAY RIGHT NOW that God would get that swelling down.
We are really just believing in a miracle here and your notes of God doing the impossible are great.
Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:26 AM, CDT
Maggie Lee continues to have this very high ICP. Dr.’s have wanted it to be in the 20’s and it is still creeping up to the high 30’s.
They are treating it w medication BUT PLEASE PRAY that this swelling would subside. What goes up MUST come down, so please pray that it would. That is the gravest concern right now.
She has gone beyond the 72 hour mark which a brain injury typically peaks. We are desperate for her to get some relief.
All of our love,
jinny
He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, and friend in Christ who went home to be with the Lord at 9:10 p.m. on Monday, July 13, 2009 at his home in Amite, LA surrounded by his family. He was born May 27, 1946 in Hammond, LA. Age 63 years. He was a United States Army Veteran of the Vietnam War. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Jennifer Bigner Durbin, Amite; 2 daughters, Mellissa Durbin Leto and her husband David, Sr., Amite, Kimberly Durbin Curry and her husband, Stephen “Nim”, Hillsdale; a son, John Daniel Durbin and his wife, Andrea, Gulfport, MS; mother, Ethel Mae Durbin Bourgeois and her husband, Percy, Zachary; 2 sisters, Gloria Mobley and her husband, Andy, Calhoun, Susan Durbin, West Monroe; 11 grandchildren, Sybil, David, Jr. and his wife, Amanda, Caleb, Jacob and Cayla Leto, Lidia, Emily and Nim Curry, Isaac, Kate and Jane Durbin; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Leland J. Durbin, Sr. Visitation will be at Cornerstone Church, Amite, from 12 Noon on Saturday until religious services at 2 p. m. Saturday. Services conducted by Pastors Neil Barberio, Steve Farmer, and Mervin Strother. Interment Montpelier Cemetery, Montpelier, LA.WASHINGTON–Hate crimes vote slated in Senate. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30888
WASHINGTON–Sotomayor doesn’t budge on late-term abortion questions. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30889
OHIO–Asian family’s legacy stirs new missionaries. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30890
NEW MEXICO–Fuge camps: On the ‘move.’ http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30891
NEW MEXICO–X-Fuge on Mission aids retirees. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30892
KENTUCKY–FIRST-PERSON (R. Albert Mohler Jr.): A ‘clean sweep’ for the Episcopal liberals. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30893
TENNESSEE–FIRST-PERSON (David Francis): What’s your Sunday School strategy? http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30894
Truth
IN AMERICA, TRUTH in religion is considered an oxymoron…
There is no truth in religion, we are told. It’s all a matter of taste or opinion. You like chocolate, I like vanilla. You like Christianity, I like Islam. If Buddhism works for you, then it’s true for you. Besides, you ought not to judge me for my beliefs! (Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist,” 21).
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6
The Prayer Link 