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David
David O'dell
David
David O'dell
Mar 27, 2022

Prayer Request

May I please ask for prayers for my 96yo mother who’s currently in hospital fighting for her life.
We don’t know what it is as yet?

We, “The Family”, lost both the youngest cousin from a rare form of lung cancer & then her father only 3wks later.

We postponed my cousins funeral thinking that her dad would get better since his was Omicron Covid related to start with but, what we didn’t know was, that he also had Leukaemia. He hadn’t told a soul, he was being strong for his daughter.

So, we ended up having her funeral on the Monday, then his on the Friday of the same week.

This has had a domino effect with my mother, who’s now battling to stay alive because of the double passing of our cousin and uncle.

She’s always looked after others in the community for over 50yrs and has been a widow for the same amount of time.

PLEASE MAY I ASK ON BEHALF OF MY ENTIRE FAMILY, FOR PRAYERS SO THAT SHE CAN HAVE THE WILL TO KEEP LIVING?

We are all devout Christians and believe that it’s not quite her time to leave this Earth just yet.

Mum is still sharp minded with brilliant cognitive function who loved a stroll every afternoon around the Retirement Village where she lives but, her body seems to be shutting down after the tragic loss of the other family members and she’s unable to hold any food or beverages down.

She’s so dehydrated and extremely fragile at the moment due to no nourishment from any foods.

I pray 🙏🏼 that she’s able to recover from whatever it is that’s stopping her from being able to swallow her food, and that she can recover and start eating again without regurgitating.

Bless all of you who read this to the end and pray for my mum “Gwen”, May God bless you and keep you safe in this new world of horrors.

Please try to find the positive beauty in the magnificent things of God’s beautiful creations, both in his flora and fauna plus, all the little positive things that happen in our lives everyday.

Praise be to our Almighty Father who gives us strength to get through the hard times in life and who loves each and everyone of his children here on Earth.

God Bless you all 🙏🏼🕊🦋❤️‍🩹🌈✨🌹🍃

David
David O'dell
Apr 20, 2019

Saved from falling off a cliff

I was on a school camp at a Church Camping Ground that I’d previously visited several times before with my church that I attended & grew up in. My church was an extended family. My mother was even my Sunday School Superintendent for a while there.
Back to what happened.
It was during a hike to visit rock platforms where the ocean meets the land that I thought to myself, “Since I’ve been at this place several times before with my church, I’ll take a shortcut off track & beat everyone down from the top of the cliffs down to the rock platforms.” It’s about a 100ft drop from up top to down below. It was then that I suddenly came across a reddish brown rubble that resembled tiny reddish/brown ball bearings. I started to slide down the rock ledge with nothing to break my fall. No shrubs to grab & no large rocks to stop my fall. I thought I was going to slide right off that cliff to my death. All I could think was, “I’m going to die, what’s mum going to say?” We’d lost my father when I was 6yo & I thought, “Mums already lost her husband & now the school is going to have to tell her that her son has fallen to his death as well.”
It was at that very moment when what seemed like a large kind of invisible right hand dragged me across diagonally the cliff top so I was able to grab hold of some saplings to stop my fall over this cliff & to my death.
I know that it was God that was this hand that helped me from falling to my death. I made it back to the track and it was there that suddenly my legs gave way & went to jelly & shock set in. I don’t remember anything else of that day, only the feeling that I was sliding to my death, the thought of dying & saying to myself, “What’s mum going to say?” Plus the incredible feeling of a loving invisible hand dragging me diagonally across the sloped slippery cliff top to safety where I was able to break my fall by grabbing hold of saplings that had roots growing firmly into cracks in the rock that enabled me to stop my sliding off that cliff to a 100ft fall to my death on the rock platform below.
Since then, I have heard of others that have had similar near death hand experiences.
One is my Goddaughters mother who was dragged to the surface of the water from being caught under waves in the surf drowning by a large hand.
So I know it has happened to others.
Miracles are still happening during our time on this Earth.
I’m so lucky to still be around to share this event with others as proof of our loving God & his physical interventions of saving lives when he needs us to stay on this Earth longer for some reason or another?
I guess I’m testament to his glory & love for us?💕
WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY EASTER ✝️ 2019
FOR HE HAS RISEN, AMEN! 🙏🏼