Behind the Wedding Scenes

Just two weeks before the onslaught of Ondoy, the killer typhoon, we attended a beautiful wedding in a beautiful nature park complex. It would be, alas, ravaged by the flood of epic proportions.

It was the wedding of my nephew, Jo, and the lovely lady who happens to be our medical transcription school’s office manager.

Because we are with Ched every working day, we were sort of privy to the wedding preps and jitters.

What we hadn’t counted on was, Jo’s dad had a heart attack two months before the wedding. He was rushed to the ICU and flatlined! Although he was revived, the prognosis was bad—he needed a triple bypass surgery at the soonest possible time. His eldest son rushed home from the US.

Jo worried that his father might not make it to the date of his wedding. But with prayers, and more prayers, Jo and his siblings were led to a doctor of Cellular & Biochemical Medicine. Instead of surgery, which was dangerous because of the patient’s serious diabetic condition, the doctor prescribed an unconventional (a bit bizarre to many) diet.

Slowly, the patient regained his strength, and to everyone’s surprise, he was able to attend the wedding!

While there, he performed all his ceremonial duties as the father of the groom with verve. He was visibly amused, as I was, when John Denver of the Philippines, suddenly appeared at the reception—and performed songs so like the original, I thought we were listening to a CD.

The guests who saw Jo’s dad couldn’t believe what he had gone through two months earlier. But the prayer warriors knew better.

The One who can quiet a storm, part the sea, and perform a miracle at a wedding in Cana, performed another wedding miracle by giving a dying man a new lease on life. And those of us who believe in Him are once more affirmed by the wonders of his healing grace.                     

(Above: John Denver's voice repository and me.)