On August 29th the left side of my body stopped working due to a blood clot being shot from my heart into my brain. I collapsed onto my table saw cutting my left hand (good thing there was no feeling there, right?). Where was God in all this? He was all over this situation. If you know me I am unreasonably optimistic, so much so that I will deny bad things are happening…some say I see the glass as half full, I say the glass is not merely half full but always full to the brim nearly overflowing. On that day I was working on building a gift to my son, Simon, for his 1st birthday. Suddenly I am sending Katie, my daughter, into the house for a towel cause I tell her I nicked myself on the table saw. God 1st showed up in the loving care of my wife. She came out to my work area to check on my “nicked” hand to find my face drooped and my speech slurred. Quickly she identified the stroke and put me in the car to the ER. God then shows up in a huge way with the little ER I was in actually having knowledgeable staff and the right medication(TPA) for a Stroke victim. God was then manifested through His body. My wife reached out to the pastoral team at our church and our LIFEgroup. The next thing I know many people are praying for me and my family and my LIFEgroup and pastors are invading the ER I am at to pray with me and support my family. God has seen fit to bring me through this event with the full use of my left side! Looking back on my time at the ER or even the ride to the ER I was not afraid, in fact I denied I had a stroke, claiming only a dizzy spell (you call it brain damage I call it optimism ). I was not afraid then and am not afraid now. Side note: As of yet no cause for the stroke has been confirmed. There’s no other explanation but God being over all this (His will being done on earth as it is in heaven.) Just like Jesus healed the centurion’s servant without visiting the centurion’s home, I am not too far in distance for the loving arms of my Heavenly Father to reach down and comfort me or my family. And I am grateful to the body of Christ, the Church, for being used by God to reach out when my family and I were in need.
