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A Second Chance at Living Happily Ever After

My husband’s best friend survived an aortic aneurysm not long before Christmas. It swelled up to grapefruit size and was just a nanosecond away from bursting. But a super medical team at a Kansas City hospital saved his life with emergency heart surgery.

We asked everybody we knew to pray for Steve. Through God’s grace, he wound up in the 5 percent of the population who survive such a catastrophe.

Now he faces a long, boring recovery stuck at home in bed, which will be tough for this former Omahan and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate. His career as an attorney has afforded him all kinds of fascinating hobbies and active adventures.

But he’s embarking on a new one, anyway: on Christmas Day, Steve asked his longtime girlfriend Cheryl to marry him. FIN-ally! Both Christian believers, they each have two children from previous marriages. Everyone’s rejoicing and laughing over “what it took” to nudge Steve toward taking the plunge after all these years.

Steve’s no dummy. He knows a second chance at happiness when he sees it. Many congratulations! You got your heart fixed, and now you can put it to good use for the rest of your life.

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Prayer request: Father, we praise You and thank You for Steve’s amazing recovery. Thank You that he is responding to Your grace by renewing his heart in Your truth, and giving his heart to Cheryl in love and commitment. Bless their marriage, Lord, as we marvel at Your wonderful ways of bringing people together in love in Your name. (1 John 3:19)