I took some time and searched my life to reflect on the wonders that God has done this is the short list.
Many know my son Josh, he attends church here at Gateway. Josh was 4 and a half and taking swimming lessons, we lived in La Grange, Texas at the time. It was the first time I had left him at swimming lessons. The instructor had taught lessons at that pool for over 25 years and did not really like Moms staying. After 10 days of lessons that faithful Thursday, I left. I went to get gas and go by the bank. As I was getting gas something told me to go back and get Josh. I hurried back, walked in to the pool area and did not see my blonde headed boy, I shouted out his name and went around to the other side. I looked down and there he was on the bottom of the pool. The instructor and her helper got there as I did and started CPR. I began to scream, it is all very clear to this day.
It was horror in the flesh.
A Hispanic woman placed her hand on my shoulder and said " What is his name"? I screamed Joshua, she told me in a mild voice "He will be fine". She asked if I would wanted to pray and I dropped to my knees on the concrete and we prayed.
I remember begging God to put breath back into his body. I held his foot as they worked on him and he was cold, I begged God.
She rode with me to the local hospital and sat with me for a couple of hours. The Er doctor came out and told me they were getting no response and his heart had stopped,but they had gotten him back. He would be takien in by ambulance to Austin (60 miles). No care-flight then. I was not allowed to go in the ambulance for reasons I could not understand then. I followed in my car behind that ambulance, the lights were flashing, the sirens were blaring, it was along 60 miles.
Hours after arriving in Austin, the Doctors came our with that look on their face. I had seen it in movies.They said "There was no hope, we have done all that we can". A short Asian Doctor came with papers for me to sign, she tried very hard to persuade me to take him off life support and donate his organs. I could not even comprehend what she was saying to me.
If only I had not left him, why did I. How stupid was I? My God what had I done.
I refused to unplug anything and threatened anyone when they came near him. I guarded that respirator, it was the only reason his chest was going up and down. About 12 hours went by and my parents arrived.There were still no signs of improvement. If anything he was getting worse. He was developing fluid on the brain and the lungs. We were loosing him.
Well my mother began pray, her freinds were praying, people in the hospital that did not even know us were praying, along with the instructor. She was in the chapel in her bathing suit refusing to leave.
Three days later Josh opened his eyes it was Sunday afternoon July 17th. God was in the room and he was holding my son. He had breathed life back into Josh. He had done as I begged. God gave my son back to me.
He went home 3 days after that. The Doctors could not even believe this was happening. No brain damage (well) he was perfect, he was Healed.
We went back to swimming lessons the following Monday and I looked for the woman that had comforted me poolside. No one, I MEAN NO ONE knew who I was talking about. Most of the people at the pool were German and a Hispanic woman would have stood out. We never found her. You can decide for yourself who she was.
March 24th, 1988 my sons Rowdy and Josh were in a heffic wreck. It occuried in Cresson. Thier Dad was killed. Rowdy was thrown into the floor board, he was cut seriously, but concious wittnessing the events unfolding. Josh was mangled, many broken bones and deep lacerations. His back was broken in 3 places. The rescue workers told me if they had been anywhere else in the car they would have been killed.There was only room exactly where they sat. Rowdy asked the ambulance driver to pray for them and to call his grandmother that lived just a couple of miles away. They were 12 and 11 and it was along road, but God healed them.
God healed Monty of alcoholism and selfishness. He made a new man and washed his wounds with the blood of Christ. He is much the different man today, because of the Healing that God provides.
God brought our marriage through some very hot fires. God is healing me of anger. I am learning how to trust again. I am not sure how long it will take, but God and I are walking toward that goal. God is the only reason we are together today.
God is healing us.
These are just a few things God has done for me. My witness is easy, God's love is simple, salvation through Grace. I did not deserve the things he has done for me. Really I deserved to be left in the dust. But I am a child of the King.
I wonder; what would have been different in my life, what if I had been a stronger christian, if I had stayed at the pool, if I would have not let them go with their Dad, what if , if , if. God loved me enough to bring me and my family though the fire. He loved me then and He loves me now, just the same just as I am.
It is simple; God Heals all we need do is summit.
I am sure that you have healing experiences of your own. Things that have happened when God showed up to carry you through the fire. How did those times effect your life now? Did it change the course of your life?
Write your experiences down, tell someone, share your healing with another. It will change the course of a life, it could be the difference of Heaven or Hell.
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