To New Covenant and the Prayer Blanket Ministry,
I picked up a prayer blanket at the church to take to my college roommate who had been hospitalized while battling breast cancer. In the 5 years since she had received the bad news she had been hospitalized only one other time, and that was for surgery to try and remove her cancer. We traveled to Ft. Worth to see her because we knew that this was not good news for her to be in the hospital.
I took the prayer blanket to her and she was wrapped and covered with the blanket that evening. For her last 3 weeks the prayer blanket enveloped her with God’s love and she found such peace and comfort with the blanket. It became a symbol of all the love and prayers that were surrounding her. She fought very hard to stay alive, her husband and 2 daughters never left her side.
After struggling and fighting and being in a coma for the last week of her life she opened her eyes to her family with a glow and radiance they had never seen, she smiled and lovingly looked at each one of them with tears in her eyes and kissed her husband and took her last breath.
Her family has received so much comfort from the blanket. The night she died her husband entered their bedroom and fell asleep with the prayer blanket wrapped around his shoulders. Her 2 daughters, when someday bringing her grandchildren home from the hospital plan to wrap them in the blanket as a symbol of their sweet grandmothers' love they didn't get to know but will be able to feel all around them.
Thank you so much for providing such a powerful example of God's love that was felt and shared by one very ill woman and her family during their darkest but brightest days. Your love and prayers will have an impact on her future generation but also on her family and friends. Thank you again for sharing Gods love and for what you do every day.
In Christ's love,
Peggy Thompson