Heart Attack

Last night my father, Roger Smets, experienced a heart attack. Around 4:00pm he began having chest pains and decided to drive himself to the hospital.  Upon arriving he collaspsed and attendants frantically worked to “keep him alive.”  It turns out he had a 100% blockage in one of his main arteries.  Thankfully, he made it to the hospital just in time and due to the freshness of the blockage they were able to  penetrate the blockage and put in an angioplasty stent instead of having to do bypass surgery. The angioplasty procedure was successful and my dad is recovering.  Thank you for all your prayers, comments, texts messages & phone calls.

It is in times like these when we become acutely aware that life is a gift of God. As 1 Samuel 2:6 says, “The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” We are grateful God in his wisdom has seen fit to give life to my dad and keep him with us longer.  We praise God for his goodness to us in this and even more so for the goodness of the gospel.  In Jesus we have a life that heart attacks can’t touch (Rom 8:31-39).

- Duane Smets

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