Miracles DO Happen!

A few weeks ago, I shared on my facebook page, an urgent request for prayers for my Uncle Terry.

He was diagnosed with viral encephalitis, a diagnosis that at one point, we thought would take his life. He went to the ER on a Sunday afternoon and by 10pm that night, he was unresponsive, was put on a ventilator and had a chest tube.

It all happened so fast. A husband, a dad, and grandpa, an uncle, a friend, with a family that loves him so incredibly much.

And then he started to have seizures.

My dad and Terry are brothers, and they grew up farming together. They have owned the farm together since I can remember (which now my cousin is faithfully taking over), and now my dad’s friend, co-worker, and brother, was lying severely ill in a hospital bed.

And not to mention, at the start of harvest season.

It was so hard to make sense of all of this, but then the verse in Proverbs came to mind to not lean on our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge Him and He would make our paths straight.

In death and in life.

Then MRIs proved to be worse than the previous ones and he started to have increased bleeding in the brain, making any thought of recovery seem distant. The family decided to have a trach and feeding tube inserted, but he would still at times go 30 seconds without breathing. Was their any hope left? It seemed the only hope left was that our citizenship was not here on earth, but in heaven.

Yet we all kept clinging and praying for a miracle.

AND MIRACLES STARTED TO HAPPEN.

After many days of no response from Uncle Terry, one day he squeezed the physician’s assistant’s hand! Then he raised an arm. Then he started to mouth words. Then he started to respond to more commands. And more. And MORE.

Both sides of his body are now moving. He stood up for the first time in 3 weeks Tuesday. He is able to read and understand. My dear friends, God performed a miracle.

The road is long still, but the road is paved. He will have to have rehab to help him gain back what was lost, and we continue to pray for a full recovery.

Is that asking too much? Not at all. God has proved that He can do the unimaginable; the impossible. So we are believing that He can again, do the unimaginable.

If you wonder if miracles still happen today, Uncle Terry is proof of that.