Dear Dave & Irene –
My wife Christina, my kids, Katarina (11) and Jake (9), and I are all praying for His strength to indwell you to overcome the pain you’re suffering while we wait on Him for the miracle of complete healing and recovery. We have a couple churches here in the East Bay lifting you all up in prayer as well.
Speaking of miracles, I have a little one (or two) to tell you about…
I met Dave a couple years ago when I started working with one of his accounts. He is truly one of my favorite people and a very good brother in Christ. Though I’ve never met you, Irene, I know that you’ve got to be pretty spectacular by extrapolation, since he is very clear that you are his “better half”.
Dave emailed me and another brother about the amyloid about 2 months ago and asked for our prayers and directed us to the website. I spent a little time on the website to get the gist of your situation and then went home later that day and told my Proverbs 31 wife about it. After talking about it at the dinner table with all of us deciding to pray for you daily, Christina later came to me and told me that she’d like to knit a “prayer shawl” for you.
I didn’t quite know what that was so I asked her. Although my wife had only started knitting about 6 months ago, she had just heard about this ministry in which a knitter would knit a shawl or blanket while praying for the recipient – praying the whole time while knitting. In this way, the recipient would literally be “covered in prayer”. Christina asked me if I thought it was a good idea that you would be the first recipient of a prayer shawl she made. I told her that I thought it was a beautiful idea and that I would be happy to deliver it to you.
The next day at work I ventured back onto your website at lunch and read a good portion of it that I
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