At 12 noon, on a sunny day, my 36th birthday, I drove through a shoot out as I drove home from the park. I was hit instantly by a stray bullet that went straight through my neck, and another bullet went into my shoulder shattering the bone in my right arm. My esophagus was detached and I was loosing massive amounts of blood from the wound in my neck.

A man wrapped towels around my neck as another who I could not see with the blood covering my face, prayed over me. I died and was revived three times after the ambulance and was given pain medication. In the emergency room the doctors told family that I probably wouldn't live and if I did survive, I may have brain damage and almost certainly would never be able to speak or swallow.

Everyone prayed for me while I suffered, medicated and in pain in the hospital... my family, friends, even strangers and their prayers worked!!

Today, not quite six months later, I can eat almost anything and can speak pretty clearly.

Thank the lord!!