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Please Pray For Paula Marks

Paula Marks, who is mar­ried to Bob Marks on the Chi Alpha National Lead­er­ship Team, had a brain aneurysm burst last night. Accord­ing to the email I received, “she is cur­rently in a coma in neuro inten­sive care unit and is unre­spon­sive.” The aneurism is deep in her brain, which makes surgery difficult.

Bob and I used to joke that we were lucky men–we each had a Paula. Please ask God to restore Bob’s Paula to him.

UPDATE: On 12/4 in the morn­ing I received this email:
“Many of you are email­ing me want­ing a lat­est update on my mom.

She is very ill and the doc­tor told us, that he is NOT see­ing sig­nif­i­cant improvements.

We are told that less than 1% sur­vive this kind of aneurysm.…

That does not mean that our faith is gone! Unless God inter­feres she will pass on so we con­tinue to pray for a divine miracle.

Please pray with us for this mir­a­cle because I do know that God does per­form miracles.

Sev­eral of you want to know what to pray for specif­i­cally so here it is:

The doc­tor wants to see if her lift 2 fin­gers on com­mand and then he will rec­og­nize that she is not neu­ro­log­i­cally impaired.

That is what I am pray­ing for. I told her that last night and reminded her that her strength is in the LORD. PSALM 121 is what we have taped in her room…we are also remind­ing her that it is “Not by might, nor by power but by His spirit, says the Lord.” Thank you for pray­ing for her! ”

UPDATE: on 12/4 in the after­noon I received this mes­sage:
We just got a call from the hospital…when the doc­tor asked Paula to raise
her two fin­gers– she did.

Praise God for his answer to prayer! The fam­ily is very encour­aged, but
Paula still needs our prayers for con­tin­ued healing.