When the Heart Stops    

    

   We know a woman who survived three medical episodes in six months, any one of them potentially fatal. 

   In January she suffered a stroke. Her doctors described her survival as "amazing." However, her health continued to be subpar. 

   In late June she woke up on the kitchen floor, two cracked bones in her face and a pool of blood. No memory of fainting or falling.

   That ER visit was followed by another last week, when she went limp. Her stare was blank, her skin cold. In the hospital, she was alert once again. 

   Over two days of monitoring, they discovered what could have been detected months ago. Her heart occasionally stopped for a second or so. 

   She is back home, looking and feeling better, and sensing better circulation 

- now with a pacemaker. 

   We thought of our swimming pool. When the pump (heart) is running, water flows through various pipes and circulates again and again. A timer starts and stops the pump.

   When a human heart stops, how does it restart on its own? 

   God is the Source of and Giver of life, breath and all things. From Adam to the newest baby on earth, we are all in the blood line He created.

   Paul wrote, For in Him we live, and move, and have our being. He is not far from each one of us. 

   This woman has an extraordinary salvation testimony from years back. Maybe the Lord wants her to deliver his/her story to new hearers.  

   Judgment day is coming, and there will be no escape from the One who raised Jesus from the dead. 

       Jimmy