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Your stories are some of our favorites. Our next story is brought to us by Ryan Buck in Des Moines, Iowa. home of our great affiliate, 1040 WHO. It's called the Hope Story of John Humphrey because it was made for the Humphrey family and their friends at the Lutheran Church of Hope. their home church in West Des Moines.
We will be hearing from John, his mother, Jennifer. and his father Mark. Let's take a listen. I played baseball since I was. Three or four years old.
I've always loved it. Uh play it every single summer. It makes me happy. I feel good when I play baseball. Uh especially when I pitch.
Pitching's my favorite thing about baseball. My mom As a nurse, and she listened to me one day, and she thought something was wrong. He came in from playing basketball one day, and he was like, My heart feels like it's beating like really hard.
So I grabbed my stethoscope and listened to him. And I could hear it. And so I went into the doctor to get that checked out, and while he was there, he said. You have a family history of heart problems. I want to get you into a cardiologist just to see And Dr.
Law walked in and brought his mentor with him from the University of Michigan. And they both looked at Uh John and they looked at Jennifer and I and they said John has a very serious arrhythmia that could take his life at any moment. He said Uh there's no easy way to put this. It's not my job to put it easy, it's my job to take care of you. He said you only see beats like this or strips like these.
on people in the hospital and they have these beasts like this right before they die. Your son could die at any time? With the next heartbeat we don't know. We don't know how he's alive right now. We've not seen anything like this.
The doctor said, I want to go in. I'm gonna put an I C D in Pacemaker He said, uh going into my heart is like going into a minefield. They didn't really think it would be successful. The w the likelihood of it being successful was, um Very low. We said you're having this.
Um he didn't want it. He didn't want it placed. He didn't want to have to miss any of his baseball season. It was the state tournament was coming up. And he was not going to let his team down.
I tried to fight it. I was like. If I get this, I feel like my dream of playing sports is just done. I feel like I'll be a different person and what if it messes with my heart or makes it worse? I just don't I didn't want to have anything to do with it.
We let him I sell on them. Yeah, the bleachers holding an AED. Is it a little bit emotional because And we've gotten the word that any time This arrhythmia could take him out. But he wanted to pitch, so... We prayed a lot.
We prayed as a team. I wasn't worried. I was just really at peace playing and I was having just a good time. And he went out there and uh He went the full game. Won the game from the mound, pitched a two-hitter.
struck out 14 and walked one and that kid hadn't picked up a baseball. in three to four weeks before that game. And I greeted him as he came off the mound and I just looked at it and I said Let's say a prayer because You know, God just lifted you up today. And you certainly have inspired a lot of people. that know your story and uh And he just had this big smile on his face as we walked off the fields.
I walked west. My mom and we sat on some benches and just kind of absorbed everything around us. And I just came to the conclusion like Okay, sometimes you just have to give things up to live the best life you can. I can't worry about this.
So I had a lot of people praying for me. My surgeon, he reads a devotion, his daughter sent him a devotion. every day before he goes into surgery. Because we got around in a circle, my family and then the surgeon, we all prayed together. And I hadn't read my devotion yet, but that was actually what I prayed.
I prayed that. God just guide his hands through my heart and just do good things, please. And just hopefully everything works. That was just one of those things like God saying, hey, I'm right here with you. When I was giving a hug to my parents, saying goodbye.
before I went into the operating room. I was Like kind of worried and nervous. But then, as soon as I stepped in the operating room, I just was really happy. I. It's kinda indescribable.
It's weird how in the scariest, what should have been the scariest time of my life, moment of my life, I was, I think, probably the happiest I've been ever. It's a great sign to see before going in. And so, John. Walked through the doorway, and the last thing I saw before the door closed was John sitting on the edge of the bed laughing. I just started smiling and I tried to lighten up the room because uh Those people were probably really nervous.
So even when I laid down and right before I went under, I was. I was smiling and I was just like thinking, oh, how great is life? Even though I Probably shouldn't have had that point of view then. It was definitely God. He was definitely.
Holding me up, he was right there. And it was it was just a re really reassuring feeling like Hey, I'm here, you're gonna be okay. I was just happy and so he just made me happy. When I woke up I felt like God's hand was right on my chest, and He was saying, You're okay, everything went perfectly fine. It was the best feeling I've ever had in my life.
It was all-encompassing joy. and love and peace and I just felt right right at home. I just felt perfect and so I kinda started bawling right then because that was a Really big, powerful moment. the first thing that he could say when he uh when he could speak was Glory be to God. With tears running down his face, my husband said, Babe, why is he crying?
Is he hurting? I said He's not crying because he's hurting. He's crying because he realises There is a god. There is a god. And He is good.
Hi, Pastor Mike. Thank you for your prayers. I made it. God is good. Glory to God.
Thank you. Prayer is a very strong thing, and so. When I woke up from surgery I was kind of recovering a little bit, coming back to my senses. And I just had another aha moment, like, oh my gosh, prayer works. And that was just one of the coolest moments of the whole thing because prayer went from like a You feel like you have to to just like kind of say hi to God or whatever and give thanks to more of a connection with God and an outreach to God.
Even though it was a bad situation It brought a lot of good out of it because I got reconnected with people. got reconnected with myself and I discovered Christ a lot more. and undiscovered life. More too. He pretty much just changed everything, changed my whole life, really.
But he changed it for the good, definitely, because I think I'm a better person now than I was before.
So, yeah, uh, stick with God. For sure. And you've been listening to John Humphrey. And my goodness, prayer is a very strong thing indeed. Especially when you get families and communities.
praying together in unison. for a common cause. The Humphrey family story And that is John. Jennifer his mom and Mark his father. Follow their stories, so many other stories like it here in this great country, here on our American Stories.
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