“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.”
Isaiah 9:2 NIV
Joan, my twin sister, was in the hospital having a pacemaker placed in her heart to stop her heart from racing. My sister is very thin so they had to do a different procedure for the pacemaker. The pacemaker is put in place using a long, thin tube called a catheter. The catheter is inserted into the femoral vein through a very small incision in your groin. Her surgery was very successful and she was released to go home. As she was waiting on her husband to get the car, she decided to go to the restroom. The next thing she remembers is that she was on the floor laying in lots of blood. She called for help but no one heard her. When a nurse finally came to her room, and saw her laying there she immediately rushed to her side. She had no pulse. Action was taken and her room was filled with help. They were working very hard to revive her. Her husband, Nick, came back to her room wondering what happened. He was waiting in the car for an aid to bring her down. He came in to her room when they were lifting her off the bathroom floor. His words to me was “I knew she was dead”. Joan said to me, “during my dead to life time that I went through a dark tunnel before I saw light” and wanted to understand the darkness before seeing the light. It bothered her until the above scripture “popped” off the pages of her Bible into her heart. She has now framed the scripture and is placed in different places in her beautiful home as a reminder that “yes, she encountered the area of great darkness, but the LIGHT has (and did) dawn.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:1, 3-5 NIV
Just a thought by coppi
Just a thought by coppi 
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