A Message from Caddie

Hey, everybody, this is Kristen’s friend Caddie.

Listen, Kristen desperately needs your prayers. We were all in a car wreck this evening, on our way out to dinner after going out on the ocean to scatter her mother’s ashes at sunset. This truck just came out of nowhere! I still can’t get my head around what happened. Ethan, Phil and I are pretty banged up (Phil even has a mild concussion), but Kristen didn’t fare as well as we did – she’s alive, but just barely, and that’s only by a direct miracle of God.

We seriously thought we’d lost her at one point, but we just couldn’t give up on her, just couldn’t stop praying for God to intervene, even when the paramedics gave us that look and told us they were sorry, they’d done everything but she hadn’t made it. We wouldn’t accept that. In fact, it just made us pray harder for her. And then, as they were about to drape the awful white sheet over her, one of the paramedics checked her pulse one last time – he doesn’t even know why he did it – and her heart was beating again! God gave her back to us!

Even at that, Kristen still needs a ton of prayers, because she’s still in bad shape. We haven’t even been able to go in and see her, still don’t know everything that’s wrong with her. We’re waiting for a doctor to come out and talk to us.

Thank God Kristen’s friend Jenna was babysitting our baby, Nate! If he’d been in the car …

So yeah, please, everybody really go to bat for Kristen right now, just storm Heaven with prayers for her. And please pray for Ethan too – we’re all upset and massively shaken, but Ethan is just a total mess emotionally. He’s just sitting and staring at the floor, rolling a diamond ring through his fingers. It’s an engagement ring. He was going to propose to Kristen at dinner.