God is Good!

Looking back at these past two weeks...I can honestly and positively say that God carried me and my sisters and Dad through. There is no other way to describe anything. Dad was planning to leave for Red Wing MN on Tuesday, to pick up some pottery for the Anniversary Sale at the West Side Clothing for next month...we are 100 years old this year! But, on Monday when I called him and Amy and Karen and told them that Lisa was worse; plans changed...for each one of us. What was pressing and HAD to get done was not important. Life stood still. Kids still had softball and baseball games, the swimming pool was still calling their names, the store was still opened for business, and all of that still had to happen to keep some kind of normalcy...not only for our families, but for us too. Yet, nothing in our hearts was normal because Lisa was dying. The doctors told us that had she not had her shunt, in 12 hours she would have been gone. She would have died. She was in a coma, and she would not have come out of it.

That is a scary place to be. It was what we faced, yet God kept us from knowing the finality of it all. Wow! I can't tell you how much the power of prayer has done. Had it not been for so many people praying for Lisa, her outcome could have been different. Thank you.

Lisa is remarkable. There is a plan for her still; in this life. She has inspired countless people from the time she was a little girl, she is a beautiful soul. She is still a little girl in her heart and her mind...and that is what makes her so special. She wants to live, she wants to get back to her apartment, back to the Olive Garden, and back to life. She will. You betcha, she will.


This was taken the morning that Lisa was unresponsive. She was so sick. Every time I looked at her, I cried. That was not my sister.