Power of Prayer

My day was planned. I would go to the three prayer vigils for the six homicide victims of last week and then spend most of the rest of the day working in the garden. But I woke to a phone call from my friend Ella. Her husband, Joseph, had stopped breathing and was being taken to the emergency room of a hospital. I was to meet her there.

Driving there I had memories of the many times my parents, when they both were alive, had called me to drive them to the emergency room. Sometimes it was a real emergency and sometimes it was not. But they used the emergency room as a clinic or doctor’s office and kept changing ER’s.

When I got in the ER room Joseph, although on oxygen which he regularly used, was restless. Soon they medicated him and put him on a ventilator to breathe. Ella had me call a couple of religious sisters from the Church to tell them about Joseph and to pray for him.

After he was hooked up to the machines all but one of the nurses left the room. One of the machines started to beep. The nurse in the room was there to take another blood sample, and Ella asked her what the noise was. She said she did not know but that all the machines hooked up to Joseph were being monitored by persons in the large control room in the center of ER.

ER’s these days are a place of technological wonder. There is a major room surrounded on all four sides by individual ER rooms. The central area is where doctors and nurses stay when not working directly with patients, and where technicians monitor the machines.

After awhile Ella suggested I go down to the cafeteria and get myself a cup of coffee. I was glad to do so. When I returned to the ER room, #9, the religious sisters from our church were standing next to Joseph, one on each side holding his hand and praying. It was a quiet serene scene of these two elderly nuns praying for the elderly man lying helpless on the bed. I took a look over at the control room and all its computers and technology and a look back to this scene. Joseph truly has the power of prayer and technology working for him.

(The latest word is that he is in ICU) Pray for Joseph Brooks.

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