Please, please pray for very close, long-time friends of ours:
1) Their college-aged daughter is coping with the emotional aftermath of a point-blank range shooting on Monday - the Lord miraculously spared her and her boyfriend's lives... Her boyfriend is hospitalized and will recover - the bullets shot into his limbs missed a vital artery by just millimeters. She too was spared miraculously with a bullet entering and exiting the pillow on which she was huddled.
2) This same daughter was in a car wreck just 2 weeks ago in which her car was totaled. She was uninjured.
3) This same daughter is a VT student and lost her best friend, Rema, in the massacre. She was not on campus at the time.
4) This same daughter's uncle was found dead the day of the VT massacre
(our good friend's brother).
5) This same daughter's grandfather died just after Christmas (our good
friend's father)
6) This same daughter has just lost another relative today.
Her folks, our dear friends, have almost lost their daughter, have lost her dad and brother and another family member within 5 months.
Her folks have given permission for us to ask for prayer for themselves and their daughter (her dad is not a believer): for a counselor for her that is skilled in post-traumatic stress disorder; for healing and recovery of her boyfriend from his wounds; he is also having nightmares; for physical protection - the shooter is still at large; for her innocence to be restored; for her life to return to "normal"...
May we add that her dad would realize God's Hand in all of this and come to a saving knowledge of the Lord - Thank you for praying for this traumatized family as they cope...
