Sketch #96 & 98 and a prayer request

How was everyone's holidays? I am having to re-write my whole post because my other computer became effected with a virus. Woohoo, it's not even letting me run my virus protection and the virus is claiming it is a virus protector. Gotta love it.

I wasn't sure If I wanted to share this story of my brother but I believe in the power of prayer, so I'm sharing because I know how loving all my scrapbook friends are. Maybe I will be sharing a story that might encourage someone else to believe in the power of Christ.

Two weeks ago my 18yr old brother BJ suffered a brain injury with loss of oxygen to his brain. They were able to resuscitate him but he is in a coma. The doctors told my mother that if he survived he would live as a vegetable. I know I was devastated, I cant even imagine the feelings of being the mother and having to make the choice when to discontinue treatment. After being at the hospital for a week I came home. I seemed to have lost  hope, being there listening to doctors was very depressing. On my way home a friend called me and told me a story I needed to hear. I then started researching. I came across so many stories of miracles! One thing stuck with me. Doctors are only man, they are not God, they do not have all the answers. After praying some more, I had a peace that came over me that night. I was not going to give up hope again until he took his last breath. But I really believed God would give us a miracle. The next day things got worse, they told my Mom she needed to decide soon because they were going to have to do surgery to insert a trach if she wanted to continue life support.
Later that night our miracle came! Bj started responding on command by moving his feet! He is there listening! How scary that must be! It also made me sad, because I cant say that we all talked as if we had great hope. Shame on us. He is still deep in a coma, he has had to undergo a surgery already, but is doing good. The doctors think his prognosis is good but will surely have some disability's. I choose to believe God will heal him. There has been so many prayers sent up and so many answered already. I would be forever grateful if you would  keep my brother Bj in your prayers. He will need them for a long time. Wednesday is his birthday, he will be 19. Thanks friends!

Now back to scrapbooking. Here is a layout I did for The Scrappiest sketch #96. Yeah I'm still far behind, doing school layouts!

Another sketch #98. These are pictures of my friends girls. Aren't they just beautiful. It was nice to do a girl layout. I loved this Crate Paper Collection.

Thanks for stopping by and as always sorry I haven't been by your blogs lately....Im just a bad blogger all around!