This Pain in my Heart

     Hello World, I have a pain to share with you... a deep pain that only the omnipotence of God can heal.  On Wednesday of this week my brothers childhood friend Kelwin Hibner had his body ripped open by a ditch witch while working in his field.  He put his foot atop the safety guard for some reason, slipped and his foot caught in the blades pulling his body into it and making a mess of this young man's body.  He is now heavily sedated at MCG in intensive care.  His young wife and family wait anxiously to hear any piece of news they can about this man that they love! 


Just before we were able to take him home.

     I too have sat in the hospital waiting room staring into the arms of the unknown... My very own dear brother lying on that sick bed, his body broken and cold.  On August 1, 2011, Ryan touched a live welder plug with his thumb.  The electricity flowed through his hand and stopped his young beautiful heart.  Dad performed CPR and momma called 911, but we had no idea whether he would live or not (his heart was still for up to ten minutes before the paramedics restarted it).  He was taken to Doctors Hospital where for three agonizing days we did not know if he would be a vegetable for the remainder of his life, or if he would not remember us at all, or if he would even wake up.  I have to hold back tears even now three years later while writing this.  We prayed unceasingly... Prayer and love rained down on us from family and friends.  I did my level best to tell God I would accept whatever future he had planned for Ryan, but the cruel reality that he could die any moment ripped open my heart and caused my heart to bleed uncontrollably.  I wept more that week than I have ever before in my entire life.  On the third day, the sun rose and our most marvelous Lord gave my brother back to us.  He woke up with his witty fun-loving brain fully functional!  We were and are so exceedingly thankful!  We stayed another week and half in the hospital in which time his thumb had to be removed due to too much sustained damage. 
      Kelwin, all of my family and I are praying unceasingly for your full recovery.  We are praying for strength for your family for the days to come.  We are praying for Christ's guidance of the surgeon's hands.  We love dearly the Hibner family and are here if there is anything we can do.  Now, you Reader,  now that I have bared my heart and showed you my pain I ask that you take a piece of it.  I ask that you too pray for this young man's plight.
     My brother has been given back to me and I could not be more thankful.  I love him to the very core of my being... Kelwin too has a sister who loves him... and cousins, aunts, uncle, mother, father, grandparents... Father save him too... restore his body, dear Lord!

My Ryan and I not long ago... you can see where his thumb was amputated...