From our friend Warren Pettit, in the hospital with Will and Angie:
5:50pm PT -- A few minutes ago:
I read the following passage to Will and Angie,
You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
I looked up at Will and he nodded his head.
Earlier this afternoon:
Angie’s brother and sister (John and Kelli) arrived this afternoon.....bittersweet. Will and Angie have now been in the hospital for five days.... it feels like five months. We’ve been waiting for a variety of tests to tell us what we think we already know, but, nobody has walked through the door to put it all together. Then, the supervising medical oncologist came in and we just stared.
It was the word “non-curative” that I remember. She said, based on averages, that Will has weeks to live, possibly more with a regimen of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. It only took minutes and then she was gone.
We all left the room.....Will and Angie wanted to be alone. Later, we came back in. I offered to read the following passage.
You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
I looked up at Will and he nodded his head.
GIVE MONEY
25 Comments
Danae (Schurch) Marquis
March 27, 2013Will- You are in my thoughts and prayers! I pray for your pain to be less and comfort for your weak body! This is such a hard thing to bear the thought of what you are enduring. I hold the faith God knows and he is carrying you in his arms right now! My prayers are for his miracle of healing but I dont want to be selfish if its not his will but I really want you to sing and walk again here on this earth! Please know many are praying here in Ohio!
Angie- As a wife I cant fathom the heartbreak you are being overwhelmed with right now. I am praying so hard for Wills miraclous healing if that doesnt seem to selfish to God! I have faith God is holding will in his care right now. I also pray ferverntly for God to give you the peace of understanding this hard path you are walking. Will has touched so many lives. Will has one of the kindest most gentle spirits of anyone I have ever met! He truly has a love for God and people. And He has a love for you that can be seen in his look to you in any photo I have ever seen! My heart reaches out to you and I pray a spirit of comfort during this time. Many are lifting you up in Ohio!!
Melanie Douglas
March 27, 2013I recently heard your story through my friends, Martha and David Milhouse. I lift you and your family in prayer for a miracle, healing and comfort.
Shirley Howard
March 27, 2013Sorry Angie & Will that you and your family are going through this ! Will be praying that God will have a miracle for you! Thank goodness that you do have God and your family with you!
Kalister Harmon
March 27, 2013I have faith this promise is for you Will and Angie!
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4-12
Amanda Teague Higgins
March 27, 2013Your love has reached thousands…. Praying for your entire family
Tony Bonilla
March 27, 2013We love you, Will. We love you, Angie. Like Brian Wilson once wrote…”Love and Mercy are what we need tonight.”
We pray to God for love and mercy.
Amy Little
March 27, 2013Let us approach God’s throne of grace with confidence. I believe God is present in this, and I rest in that alone. Praying earnestly.
Rachael Camp
March 27, 2013There are no words, just tears. You have touched and inspired so many…
Layla
March 27, 2013Dear Will and Angie,
You are both amazing testimonies of God’s faithfulness, glory and grace. Constant prayers for you.
Sherri Paxton
March 27, 2013I continue to pray for a miracle. However, if that is not in God’s plan, then I pray for your comfort and peace at this very difficult time in your lives.
Holly
March 27, 2013You are loved and we are lifting you up. God bless you and your families.
Kim Wynn Boyd
March 27, 2013Praying for you both!
Blake
March 27, 2013Praying for comfort and healing from Nashville, TN. God is bigger…and He’s as faithful as the morning sun.
Maggy
March 27, 2013Will and Angie-
There are no words to express what I am feeling or thinking or praying right now. On my knees in tears and prayer is all I can fathom to do right now. The Lord has blessed you beyond words and everyone around you for letting us know you and see Him through you even in your hardest hours. We love you so much and are still praying for a miracle.
Bethany and Craig
March 27, 2013We’re lifting you up to His throne in prayer every step of the journey. So proud of you guys. So thankful for you. Weeping and hoping with you.
Warren, keep taking pics. Not to post here, just to have of this wonderful family. We treasure the Grays.
Carrie Furr
March 27, 2013I’m still praying for a miracle.
Janice and family
March 27, 2013Will and Angie-
It is hard to find the “right words” to say in such a situation. We are praying for you and offering big hugs from across the states. I’m so sorry for all the pain you both are enduring and thankful for your support system. Mercy and peace–Janice
Amy Getzen James
March 27, 2013Will and Angie,
We are praying. We know that He is good. We know that He is wise and He loves you both more than we can even fathom. We are praying.
Amy
Mark Imbriglio
March 27, 2013Been praying for a lot of things. Hope, peace, love, miracle, you name it.
Thank you so much for the example you have set with “goteamgray.” Your faith is such an encouragement to me as you have faced hardship with strength and determination, but also grace and vulnerability. Thank you for sharing this with me and us.
I thank God for your story, and the privilege to have been close to it at times (still laugh when I recall when you +DJL and JH slept on my floor at Gordon). I thank God that in you he has made a visionary who has chosen to honor Him with your ways and your life.
Praying for healing.
Peace:
The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
Tony
March 27, 2013I’m so sorry. I am praying for God to bring comfort and healing.
John & Marianne Kesler
March 27, 2013Mercy … we cry out for mercy … Come Lord Jesus.
Sallieann Atkins
March 27, 2013Praying for you and your family Will!
Russ James
March 27, 2013Will — I am just hearing about your circumstances. Know that I will be praying for healing and a miracle for you and Angie. May be God be glorified.
Sharon
March 27, 2013Be in the moment, for this moment is where we are safe. Sending loving energy to you.
JI
March 26, 2013I was going through my oldest email exchanges with Will and found this quote he sent me in 2005 from Blaise Pascal.
“I try as much as possible to let nothing trouble me and to make the
best of everything that happens. I believe this to be a duty, and
that we sin in doing otherwise. For after all, the reason why sins
are sins is that they are contrary to the will of God; and so, since
the essence of sin consists in having a will opposed to what we know
to be God’s will, it seems obvious to me that when He discloses his
will to us through events [and circumstances], it would be a sin not
to adjust oneself to them.” — Blaise Pascal
I pray, presuming for not one moment that God is unable even now to heal, that Will and Angie and all we who are family and friends will adjust ourselves to God’s will as He discloses it in days and weeks to come. Confident in His goodness; pleading for His mercy.