Can you please say a prayer tonight for my Father in law Jay. he just had a heart attack. the are not sure if he will have to have open heart surgery or not yet. If yall pray please take a second and do so. My family thanks you deeply! All the prayer warriors praying the better.

I'm sorry to hear about this, I will pray for your father and family, and I hope he gets better soon.

He is having a stint and a balloon put in right now. they said if this doesnt work in the morning they will do open heart surgery. praying so hard right now. he is in waco and we are 4hours away. and my hubby (whos dad it is) is 8 hours away. please LORD, let every thing be ok.

I know I'm going to get my ass kicked for saying this, but...

Why pray? If you're a believer, then you recognize the Lord has his own plans for everything and everyone. What makes you think that any amount of prayer will change God's will on what happens to your father in law? In fact, isn't it sort of insulting that you are in some way asking him -- your deity, creator and the most powerful force in the world -- to bend over backward and change the course of fate just for you?

... Yeah, sorry, I know it's probably not the best time to bring all that up. I'm a theist myself, but I don't believe in prayer.

Regardless, I give you all of my condolences for the hardship you're facing and I hope he recovers and regains his health.

Yes, but even if the god that someone prays to has a certain plan, sometimes they can change their mind if they see powerful prayers coming from a group of people.

Also, I'm pretty sure that it's been "proven" that positive thinking ("prayers") can aide in healing. The placebo effect, if you will. If one believes something is happening, then it may very well happen. There's a lot of cases that "prayer" was the "answer" to a problem. (I will say that I have prayed for the health of my lover's mother, and found out the next day that she got better. Coincidence? Maybe. Did it feel good? Hell yes)

Fear not. Heart attacks are not such the death sentence they used to be. My dad has three stents in his heart, and he's still a fire fighter. Breath deep, and trust in the powers that be. Saint Raphael, patron of doctors, please aide this family in healing. Let them know your kind and healing touch. Minerva, goddess of healing arts, guide the hands of the surgeons. Allow this father-in-law to continue living with his family. Gods above, I pray for your comfort for this family. Let them know your blessings.

Blessed be, sister. It will all be okay in the end.

I can completely understand that, which is why I continued to offer condolences. It is still a comforting and polite gesture.

Removed from that, as far as a placebo affect goes, I have to admit I didn't even think of that. That's a pretty convincing point. I guess I encountered a logical blindspot there.

And I can totally understand your point of "if its god's will, why should I want to change it".

Whiiich is why I usually also ask for comfort to the family if things don't go the way they want it to XD

ignoring the religious conflict above

Definitely keeping him in thoughts and prayers. I normally wouldn't post on something like this given I try to keep my religious views off the internet but as someone who recently went through a scare like this with my father (he nearly wound up in Hershey, Pennsylvania for open heart surgery but that was a false alarm, thank God), I hope everything works out for everyone and your husband's father comes through okay. ❤

If you need someone to talk to or just listen during this, you can leave me a comment.

Praying for him. :)

thank you so much! we are waiting and seeing right now. he is 4 hours from us. and it is 3am. so i can not wake up my 2 small kids and make them ride for hours. thank you for your words and prayer. i have always believed you need to pray to at least show that you care. :)

thank you so much! this means a great deal to me!

really?? why pray? well because God tells us he will always be there. he will never leave us. and you speak to GOD through prayer. so why not?? he might be wanting us to have deeper faith and to know and be at peace with what he decides to do. He never said pray and i will give you want you want. HE says pray. so thats what i do. and as many prayers that can go up on one persons behalf may or may not "help" that person. but it will help to bring peace. so thats why i ask for and continue to pray.

If that's what you believe, that is fine. Like I said, I still hope things work out in your favor.

But I prefer to just have faith in His plan and leave it there.

I do hope it all works out for you. Keep us (on here) apprised of the situation though?

rme @ the inevitable debate in every "pls pray for my family" thread

I hope your father in law will be okay, he's very lucky to have such a loving family c: I'm sure he's happy to know you guys are thinking of and wishing him the best even if you can't be there with him.

thank you!!

My condolences to you and your family. I don't believe in prayer, so I'll just hope that he'll get better.

update: he is resting comfortably. he has a stint in as far as i know. everything is going good. PRAISE THE LORD!!

I'm not usually one to make a stink but I think your post was disrespectful. I don't participate in prayer either but I would never come into a thread like this and state my opinion just to question why another person would ask for such a thing (prayer). Totally uncalled for. I respect your right to have your own opinion on the issue but there is a time and place for everything and it's MY opinion that you were out of place to state it in this thread.

Really glad to hear he's doing better. :)

I am very glad to hear he is recovering!

I'll be sure to say a prayer for him, and I'm glad to hear he's doing better now. I wish you all the best for you and your family.

thanks to all for praying! he might be getting to go home tomorrow. the stint unblocked most of the blockage. they are putting him on blood thinners to get the rest of it. we will be going to see him in the morning.