Is...is he dead?

If you've read Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, you'll appreciate the title. Well, this week isn't only the week of resurrected cars, but people, too! Sort of. We received a report last night from a trustworthy source that a friend of ours, the grandmother of my friends Natalie and Ruth, had passed away after being taken off life support. She's been in the hospital for almost a week after a stent operation sent artery plaque to her brain, affecting several areas and leaving her in a mostly vegetable state. So we received the sad word that she'd passed away and my mom passed on that news to several people, including our church prayer chain.

Imagine our shock when our same informant called this morning to say the lady's actually still alive! She'd received a false report from the woman's daughter-in-law, and discovered the error this morning. So we've been calling people saying she's still alive! She's still in a vegetative state, though, so they'd appreciate prayers for Barbara and her family. There have been some serious relationship rifts that need healing, and we're praying this is one of God's tools to accomplish that.

Now I've got that song "He's Alive!" stuck in my head.