Showing posts with label Covid-19 and answer to prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covid-19 and answer to prayer. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2021

My Covid Journey — The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face


"What joy!
He found my window. 
First time I've seen him in three weeks!
Thrill of my life being married to Dan Miller.
Soon I'll touch that handsome face and kiss those lips."
~ my thoughts on this day.

The nurses and I finangled a rendezvous at my window.
They knew healing comes when one is touched by love.

 I saw him.
He could only imagine my face behind a darkened window. 

Three weeks.
Without his touch. 
Living in uncertainty that we would ever touch again.

He cried, 
felt helpless, 
insufficient to improve my condition.

He would change places with me, 
if he could. 
But he couldn't.

What could he do?
He prayed. 
And prayed. 

Fasting and praying. 
Prone on the floor crying out to God for the life of his wife. 

 Jesus,
our sufficiency,
our healer,
 our hope.

He never lost sight of our faces, 
our needs, 
our love for each other, and 
our love for Him.

The weeks were long and pain-filled. 
Our God is eternal, and joy-filled.

Jesus. 
Our healer. 
The Love of our lives. 
The One Who joined us as husband and wife and 
called us to ministry together. 

He would trade places with us 
if He could.

He could.  
He did.

On a hill far away was an old rugged cross.

"Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows,
 yet we considered him stricken by God,
 smitten by Him and afflicted. 
But He was pierced for our transgressions, 
He was crushed for our iniquities; 
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and 
by His wounds we are healed." 
Isaiah 53:4-5

My healing came because I was touched by Love.

Thank You,
 Jesus 

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Saturday, March 13, 2021

My Covid Journey — Road Trip — ICU


My oxygen level fell fast.

"We're taking you to ICU." 

 Making light of a serious situation, I responded,

 "Road Trip — ICU!"

Waving the Queen's wave all the way down the hall, I smiled and greeted my new team of caregivers.  

Intensive Care Unit.
 Not a good place for blood cancer patients who have 
  a high mortality rate when their covid-19 diagnosis warrants a trip to ICU.


Like a rock, I delivered the blow to my family. 
 Crushing. 
My husband pledged his undying (appropriate term) love to me.
 My children stayed strong for mom and dad.
Too numb for words.
 
My oldest broke the shock with her comfort and wisdom,

 "I'm glad you are going to ICU. 
They will know how to take care of you and make you better." 

She was right.

Keeping my eyes and thoughts on Jesus,
 I remembered His words on the cross, 

"My God, my God why have you forsaken me?" 

I didn't feel like Jesus felt.
God had not forsaken me. 
He was never closer. 

Total peace, 

calm, and

 excitement as

 I realized,

"Wow! I might see Jesus soon. 
Heaven, here I come!"

I thought of  Jesus.
Days before He died
He asked His disciples to pray with Him. 
They didn't pray. 
They fell asleep. 

My friends, however, continued to keep watch.
 Prayers poured in — all day and all night. 
A mighty army of prayers covered me. 
God never left me.

Thankful for each prayer,  
I slept in the knowledge that
if I died, it wasn't for lack of people praying for me.

Startled.
Bells woke me in the middle of the night.

I wondered,
Why are bells ringing?
Do bells ring when you go to Heaven?
Is that "my bell" announcing my arrival to the Heavenlies?

Startled again.
 A shrill Stop! whistle.
  I hear my husband's voice pleading,

"Please God don't take her from me."

Hallucination? or

Was I so near Heaven, 
I heard my husband communing with God and 
experiencing God's answer to prayer in real time?

Either way, 
the night was powerful and 
the beginning to my road trip to recovery.

How about you? 

Do you know for sure you will go to Heaven?

Are you excited to go to Heaven?

If not,
please read the New Testament, 
speak to a Bible-teaching minister, 
talk to me, 
ask a Christian friend,
 go to a Bible-teaching church,
give your heart and life to Jesus. 

"For God so loved the world that 
He gave his one and only Son, that 
whoever believes in Him 
shall not perish 
but have eternal life."
John 3:16


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