of suffering from brain trauma.
Exactly 8 years ago on this day, my life was wrecked and put back together by Jesus, more beautifully than I could have ever even imagined.
Today, I reclaim that joy.
My rescued life a song.
But don't applaud me, applaud the One that overcame the chaos.
Exactly 8 years ago on this day, my life was wrecked and put back together by Jesus, more beautifully than I could have ever even imagined.
Today, I reclaim that joy.
My rescued life a song.
But don't applaud me, applaud the One that overcame the chaos.
I just found the link and read the story behind all of this, and I'm glad I know now.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how many little things are totally explained by that story. The way you hold your right-handed melodica with your right hand and reach over the top to play it backwards with your left hand - stuff like that.
I'm a super late-comer to the Susie party, and am just figuring out what a whole bunch of people already knew - people who have been really thankful for your very existence.
It's not the overcoming of the physical wounds, though, that's so significant. Lots of people experience things like you did - terrible, traumatizing accidents - and let the darkness sweep them away. People who get lost in the "white box" forever. Don't get me wrong - I'm just as glad as anyone that you're not dead. But medical science is amazing now - anyone could argue that it was giant machines and some doctors that kept you alive. What NO ONE can argue with, though, is the deliverance from despair that you received. And 8 years later, you just keep on truckin'.
Those are hard guns to stick to, too. Satan tempts us all to despair. So many of us shut down because of it. Sometimes not for good, but for unreasonably prolonged periods of time, and we miss so much. How quickly we forget how good God is.
Goodness gracious. I'm awfully long winded. And I could keep talking and typing for hours. But I don't really need to be saying any of it to you, I suppose - it's nothing new to you. Time to share the good word! Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteJames, I don't know if you ever see these comments that are in response to yours, but I hope you do.
ReplyDeleteI deeply appreciate the fact that you took the time to read that literature of mine and just how you often take the time to even read things that I post and leave your encouraging words on them.
Thank you so much for what you said above. It means so much to me. And it made me smile big to read that you noticed my left-handed switching around business. :) You have a wonderful, wonderful heart.
Thank you for being a strong pilgrim beside me in this journey.
You're a fantastic guy.
Hi Susie. I wanted to let you know that I read your last two comments in response to mine. I appreciate your sharing as much as you appreciate my reading - so we'll call it even :)
ReplyDelete(and it takes a wonderful heart to know a wonderful heart)