In the numbering of the Sundays of the Christian year, Nov. 10, 2013, was the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. However, last Sunday was by no means an ordinary Sunday at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. It was a Sunday not only for singing “Amazing Grace,” but for experiencing God’s grace in a most amazing and personal way.
On this extraordinary Sunday, the members of our congregation got to meet the family of Peggy Long, the person who saved my husband’s life.
Peggy Long was 59 when she suffered a sudden stroke in Kannapolis.
Her driver’s license did not bear the tiny heart indicating that she wished to be an organ donor, but her four sons, Harold, Bryan, Philip and Jason, upon learning that their mother would not survive, decided in the throes of their grief to donate their mother’s vital organs so that someone totally unknown to them might have life.
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"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
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