My wife, daughter and I attended a very special wedding of the daughter of a dear friend of mine who has been very seriously ill for the last 2 ½ years.

Our friend John has suffered from two bouts of recurring cancer, a heart attack, serious circulation issues in both legs (leading to an amputation of one leg from knee down and an amputation of toes on the other foot), kidney stones and numerous infections.

Over the last two years, John’s family and friends were praying very hard that he would live to see his daughter get married. His daughter had a long engagement of over two years and the hopes of John attending seemed to fade with the occurrence of each illness. In fact, there were serious doubts at times whether he might even be alive on the date of the wedding let alone attend.

All the prayers worked though. John was declared cancer free just 2 weeks before the wedding. Yet John’s strength was so spent that we worried if he would have enough energy to attend the wedding. Last Saturday the wedding was held. The bride looked beautiful and the groom very handsome indeed. For many the most emotional moment was seeing John pushed in his wheelchair holding his daughter’s hand as she walked down the aisle to be married. My wife and I fought back tears. All we could say to each other, and others was, “thank you dear God!’.

For these last many months, we asked our loving Lord to give John the ability to be there. What seemed unlikely ended up possible.

All things are possible through Jesus who loves us.

The noun, rumination, means a deep considered thought about something.

-By Deacon Tom Gryzbek