Visitors & thanks for the prayers 11/04/09

By BK -
Tonight we had a visitor local to the Dallas area that has been following along with Isaiah's journey via the blog. We just wanted to mention a quick word of thanks to June and Mike Graham for the wonderful basket of Great Harvest bread and goodies and more importantly for their thoughts and prayers around Isaiah's surgery and healing. June stopped by the hospital tonight and we were very happy to have met her. She is, from what I understand, the mother in law of one of Rachel's father's employees at the Opera, Eric Mitchko.

We're just constantly amazed at the number of people around the world thinking of us and praying for us. Just off the top of my head we know of people across the US, Canada, England, and even New Zealand. We are really in awe of the awesome power of prayer and how lucky we truly have been throughout this whole process.

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Marie said…
Thank God for the internet! We're lucky to be kept updated on smiley Isaiah's journey.
November 4, 2009 at 11:59 PM
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