A few years ago, my dad\u2019s appendix burst, which was a tender mercy.<\/p>
Most people wouldn\u2019t say that getting appendicitis and having emergency surgery is a miracle, but it was for my dad.<\/p>
When the doctor removed my dad\u2019s appendix, he found cancer in it. Luckily, after some testing, doctors found the cancer hadn’t spread. With his appendix removed, he was cancer free.<\/p>
When we had time to process this situation, my family felt grateful that my dad\u2019s appendix had burst. The cancer in his appendix was subtle, and without the emergency surgery, it\u2019s likely it wouldn\u2019t have been noticed until it was too late.<\/p>
Some people may consider my dad\u2019s story a lucky coincidence, but my family and I know it was a miracle from God.<\/p>
Blessings in Retrospect ~ How Appendicitis Was My Family\u2019s Miracle By Jackie Durfey Asher Church Magazines<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few years ago, my dad\u2019s appendix burst, which was a tender mercy. Most people wouldn\u2019t say that getting appendicitis and having emergency surgery is a miracle, but it was for my dad. When the doctor removed my dad\u2019s appendix, he found cancer in it. Luckily, after some testing, doctors found the cancer hadn’t spread. With his appendix removed, he was cancer free. When we had time to process this situation, my family felt grateful that my dad\u2019s appendix had burst. The cancer in his appendix was subtle, and without the emergency surgery, it\u2019s likely it wouldn\u2019t have been noticed until it was too late. Some people may consider my dad\u2019s story a lucky coincidence, but my family and I know it was a miracle from God. Blessings in Retrospect ~ How Appendicitis Was My Family\u2019s Miracle By Jackie Durfey Asher Church Magazines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,44,42,40,41,45],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-blessings","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles","tag-tender-mercy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}