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"Joey's Faith"





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This Poem Is Dedicated To My Brother Joey  1940-1971. . .Whom We Will Always Love And Miss Dearly.  I Have Placed Some Information At The Bottom Of This Page.  JJK

"The Faith of Joey"

There He Lay . . . A Young Boy
Only Ten Years Old and Dying
With a Serious Heart Condition
And No Hope . . . The Doctors
Gave up Trying

The Doctors Said to Give Joey
Anything He Desired
Having to Lay in Bed Everyday . . .
There Wasn't Much, That He Required

Joey Did Request One Thing
He Asked for a Radio . . .
He Said, It Would Keep Him Company
And, He'd Be Sure to Play It Real Low

Joey Was Always Kept in Prayer
But it Could Be Seen . . .
He Was Slowly Fading Away
Everyone Was Saddened and Aware
He Could Leave this Earth, Any Day

One Day He Told His Mom "There
Is a Lady I Hear on the Radio"
She Prays for People to Be Healed
She's in Town . . . Do You Think We
Could Go

His Mom Felt the Pleading in His
Voice . . . And Not Wanting
To Destroy His Hope
She Told Him "Yes" But Prayed That,
With Disappointment, He Could Cope

His Mom Carried Joey, to the Service
He Had a Joyful Look on His Face
He Listened as Kathryn Kuhlman Prayed
Asking God for His Healing Mercy, and Grace

As Joey and His Mom Listened
To Everything That Took Place
They Realized That God Still
Answered Prayers . . . Love Shined
On Every Face

When They Left That Sermon
Their Faith Was So Strong after
What They Saw . . .
People Being Healed, Cripples
Able to Walk, Throwing Away
Their  Crutches,  Wheelchairs
And All

Mom Took a Step of Faith, She
Threw Joey's Medicine Away
Saying"God" Would Heal Her Boy
She Knew, There Would Come a  Day

She Would Carry Joey to the Services
Week after Week, Without Fail
It Didn't Matter, What the Weather
Sleet, Snow Or Hail

Then One Day it Happened . . .They
Were Sitting at Service in Prayer
And Kathryn Said, God Showed Her
A Boy . . .That Was Being Healed
Right Then and There

Joey Said to His Mom "I Feel a Heat
All over Me . . ."
The Power of God Was All over Him
It Was Plain, for the Eye to See

Joeys Leg, Lost It's Curl
It  Straightened out That Day
And When His Mom Took Him to
Be Examined . . .The Doctor Didn't
Know What to Say

Joey's Heart Was "Whole"
Nothing Wrong in Any Way
This Crippled Body Was Healed
Now He Could Run and Play

You See . . . The Faith of a Little Boy
Went a Very Long Way
Showing, That All Things Are Possible
If We Believe . . . Whenever We Pray!

Copyright 2004 Judith Johnson Kypta
Hebrews (11:1)

Faith Is the Substance of Things Hoped for the Evidence of Things Not Seen.

My Brother "Joey" Grew into a Fine Man and a Good Husband and Father
Of Two Beautiful Children, Renee and Joey Jr.
He Gained Local Fame as a Great "South-paw" Bowler Having Scored Two "300" Games . . .Back to Back in "Duckpins!"
Joey Was Working for a Construction Company in (1971) There Was a Terrible Accident. A Wall Fell on Him. After Laying in a Coma for (6) Weeks, the Lord Took Him Home.
The Doctors Were Amazed….They Said They Never Saw a "Heart" So Strong, on a Person That Lay in a Coma for That Long. God Healed That Heart When He Was Ten Years Old and It's Strength Was What Kept Him Living So Long in the Coma, with Everything Else That Was Wrong with Him.
Joey Was Only (31) Years Old When the Lord Decided He Was Needed in Heaven. After All, He Did Grant Us an Extra (21) Years on Earth with Him.
I Have Written Another Poem about My Brother Joe...It's on this Site Called "Brother Joe"










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