Mikey Hoeven has a thing for frogs. They remind her of her favorite acronym - Fully Rely on God. She does that, relies on God, but life can be hard sometimes, and it was particularly challenging earlier this year when her mother-in-law died.
Raziye had been sick for a long time, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She no longer remembered what happened from one moment to the next, and while she sometimes had flashes of recognition for loved ones if reminded, she usually forgot them in the next moment. There was one person she did think about - Jack, her husband of 33 years. Raziye lived for Jack and always had, but she hadn't seen him in a while. She lived in a care facility and because his health was failing, he was unable to visit her or call her on the phone as he'd done before. She never stopped asking for him, though, and one day she started saying, "Jack's dying."
The thing is, Jack was dying. How could she know? Nobody even told her that he was sick, somehow she felt it; she stopped eating and drinking, and simply faded away.
Jack died two days later.
Mikey was with her mother-in-law when she passed. And though she was close by, she wasn't in the room when Jack went. Once the funerals were over, she says she felt a heaviness in her chest, a need for reassurance that they were well. She prayed to God, telling him she needed to see a frog. Then she went outside to water the plants, and lo and behold, she saw this little guy in the grass as if he was waiting for her.
"Honestly, in the seven years we've lived in that house I've only seen a frog twice!" she tells me. She says she immediately felt better and knew that Jack and Raziye were doing just fine. It was a God thing.
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