A Small Prayer for a Large Purpose--Please Help

Kat and her father

At the very beginning of my journey to Murcia, God sent me a helping hand to assist me in sorting through the confusion of visa requirements and job arrangements here in Spain.  This helping hand's name was Kat.  Somewhere along the way of being tossed around from one University of Murcia department to another, I received Kat's name and email address while I was still in the States.  She turned out to be my most helpful guide to Murcia.

Being a veteran American English lector here at the university, Kat knew all of the answers to my questions.  In fact, she provided me with the most concrete answers than anyone at the university could give me.  Not only that, but she opened up her home to me when I first arrived in Murcia in October.  I stayed at her apartment for a week before I found my own.  She hosted me, showed me around the city, and even accompanied me on a couple trips to the Extranjería.  I'm not sure I could have made it here without her help.

So now I would like to help a friend who is currently going trough a much more trying time than I was in September.

Over Christmas break, Kat went back home to Pennsylvania to spend the holidays with her family.  Only a few days after she arrived back to Murcia in early January, she turned right back around and jumped on a plane to the States due to a family emergency.  I don't know the specifics of the situation, but her father had developed an infection of the lungs, and it seems now he is in a comatose state.  Kat has been in Pennsylvania ever since, faithfully tending to her father waiting for him to wake up.

So I'm asking you to please pray for Kat, her father, and her entire family.  Watching a loved one in these types of conditions is immensely difficult, but I couldn't even imagine the strength required to help my father is such a situation and to simultaneously manage a life on the other side of the ocean.  If there is anything I would appreciate more from my readers it would be their prayers for Kat and her family.  Just a daily small prayer goes a long way.

We love and miss you Kat!

Thank you all so much.

-Ashley