I was surfing the Internet today and found a story about a young Oregon boy who miraculously woke up from a coma after almost two years.

According to his Mom, experts said her son was in a “persistent vegetative state”. They did not give her much hope that her son would recover.

However, to everyone’s surprise, the young boy woke up.

Carla Rivers, his Mom: “We can’t even imagine how differently this story would have turned out had we given up.”

Read the full story on Koin.com titled “Story Of Hope, Faith: Young Boy Wakes From Coma” here.

This moving story got me thinking again about Terri Schiavo. After more surfing, I found a post on BlogsForTerri.com about a recent commentary in the North Country Gazette titled “The Wrongful Death Of Terri Schindler Schiavo”.

It’s a very well written commentary about the whole sad Terri Schiavo case. You can read it here.

The part of the commentary that touched me the most was a comparison of Terri being deprived of food and water by court order until she died and the story of the arrest of a young woman for “neglecting hamsters at her home”. The young Wisconsin woman faces 39 counts of failing to provide food, drink and proper shelter to animals.

I had a hard time believing the hamster story, so I searched for it. Sadly, it is true. You can read about it here in a Local6.com story titled “Woman Arrested For Hamster Neglect”.

Jesus must be weeping over this.

Has it come to the point where hamsters have more value than a helpless lady? A lady who like the Oregon boy, might have woken up some day.

Dan England’s posts can also be found at Getting Elected Blogline and Townhall. Dan’s website is GettingElected.com.