For Valentine's Day :)

Real Life "Sleeping Beauty" Awakens from Coma after Husband's Kiss
by Aimee Herd : Jan 27, 2009 : Vanessa Allen – Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127393/Husbands-kiss-woke-sleeping-beauty-wife-coma-heart-attack.html#
"Emma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss…"

(United Kingdom)—She wasn't surrounded by singing forest animals and seven dwarves, but this modern-day "Sleeping Beauty" was awakened by a kiss—from her "prince" of a husband. (Photo by: Brian Bould/Daily Mail)

About 10 days after giving birth via C-section to her son, Emma Ray was shopping with her husband Andrew, when she collapsed with a heart attack. Doctors were able to restart her heart; however, Emma had lapsed into a deep coma from which her physicians warned she might not emerge.

For two weeks, Andrew kept vigil at his wife's hospital bed, talking to her, holding her hand and playing recordings of songs from their wedding. He even played Emma recordings of their new baby "crying and gurgling," and their daughter singing and shouting "Wake up Mummy!"

Finally in desperation, Andrew leaned over his wife and pleaded, "Emma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss."

"What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams," Andrew recounts. "She turned her head towards mine, puckered up her lips and gave me a little kiss. I couldn't believe it. My heart felt like it was going to leap from my chest—it suddenly felt like a huge weight had been lifted."

Emma's sudden response was just the beginning of a long process of recovery and ongoing rehabilitation. But, two years later, Emma is home with her family and her husband is grateful.

"She can walk quite well holding hands now," says Andrew in the Daily Mail report. "At least our kids still have a mother and I still have a wife."

My New Year

Well, it has been quite a while since I had a chance to write anything here. The holidays were all a blur with our trip to Georgia and Bec home from England, visits from family and friends.

I made some decisions this new year. I don't like to use the word "resolutions," because there is some connection in my brain between resolutions, and things that usually don't get accomplished. Not that there is this same connection in everyone else's brain, but still I know it's there in mine.

My first decision: to start being the Christian Christ calls us to be, instead of spending so much time learning/thinking/talking about being a Christian. This includes in my mind more time reaching out to the truly needy--those who have no one else to reach out to them, and are unable to reach out to others. Less time with those who already are fat with the knowledge of Christ, and more time with those who have very little hope.

Another thing: Not forsaking praying, (seeking His face always comes first), but then moving out in action. Lighting the candle instead of cursing the darkness. Making it count. Being the voice for those who have no voice. Doing what others are unable to do for themselves.

And the last thing (for now): spending time with Christians who are more focused on others than themselves; people who have Christ in their hearts, and move out in that anointing; Christians who are looking for ways to make a difference in this world.

Our pastor is always saying, "be the Christian you have always wanted to meet"...I still agree with this...

it's just that "the Christians I have always wanted to meet" has now been redefined in my heart and mind....

and, I believe, looks alot more like the Jesus that I am coming to know more personally each day.