Weak faith
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Editor,
It occurred to me today how weak our faith has become. I have a brother lives in Ragley, La., lived there a good while. This last year he had an aneurysm, has been a medical nightmare, in a coma 45 days, survived, in and out of hospitals and nursing homes, always coming back from death. He has been called a miracle (is an event attributed to divine intervention). He told last Thanksgiving about seeing the bright light from heaven in his coma and our dad and aunt (passed away many years ago) sent him back.
I have told this story many times even in papers and churches and the response was almost silence. Because I have never meet a person that almost went to heaven and came back, I am thinking, wow, this is awesome and I get excited. Maybe most of you have someone that did this but I have not, so excuse my excitement. Through this I can understand why God might be giving up on this world, if I cannot get people fired up - even priest and pastors about this, then what have we become? During this year Mike only wanted to go home and have a porch to look outside. I placed many calls, wrote letters, he did make it home but months later no porch and no pastor to visit him, even though I have asked many. This man who saw heaven, how can this be.
Moral of this story: how is this lack of support, faith, commitment and love for one another, going to get us through what we are about to face on this planet, if we can’t even respond to our own neighbor, because we are too busy? There has been a great message in Michael's suffering and I refuse not to give it a voice.
We are facing times when faith is all you will have to get you through a day, listen up people, time is running out. Build your faith and be ready to answer.
Luke 18:8b (NIV) When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?
Patricia Lundgren
Polson
