A reader writes

Hello Mr. Shea–I wanted to send you an update on my maternal grandmother. She has made a remarkable turnaround–within a few days to a week after I wrote you she started eating again and steadily began to improve. She still cannot talk, though she has tried to, or walk. When I most recently saw her two weeks ago I found her in front of the TV watching the news, something I do not think she has done in over a year and a half.
I very much believe that her turnaround is at least in great part attributable to the prayers garnered through your posting my request on your blog. I would like to pass on great thanksgiving for that. That said, I know that the inevitable is still likely near, even if “near” can only be defined as anywhere from the next few months to a little over the next year or so, and so I still pray that, when the time does ultimately come that it may be peaceful for her–and that my mother and her sisters may resolve what has come between them during my grandmother’s decline.

Father, thank you for your great grace and mercy through Jesus Christ. We ask that this time will be used well to bring peace, healing, and reconciliation through the same Jesus. Mother Mary, pray for this woman and all with whom she has to do that your Son’s will be completed in their lives.