Faith that Moves
An Eagle Falls
2020 Here We Come!
After 21 days of fasting my spirit was as an eagle soaring from the highest pinnacle coasting down ready to face the world and all God had for me.
…then mid-flight…I am struck and this eagle plummets…
It is after much deliberation within myself I decided to move forward with telling how my husband suffered a spinal cord injury. Most posts have endings before they are penned …this one does not.
My husband Richard and I ended the 21 day fast on January 22 on a high. I was ready for 2020, charged up, engine revved. After 21 days of fasting and prayer and being on the mountaintop with Jesus, basking in His presence, consuming His Word I felt lighter, satisfied and more refreshed than ever. This was going to be a year of great anticipation, self-growth and discoveries. God was going to do things in my life He has never done before. I was giddy with anticipation.
The Fall
On Wednesday, January 29, seven days after our fast, my husband fell from the front porch and landed face first on the sidewalk. One minute I saw him looking out the front door the next minute I saw him lying very hurt and bloodied on our cement pavement.
Time stopped.
Everything after that on my part was purely mechanical because I couldn’t wrap my head around what just happened. I rushed to grab a towel to place under his head for cushion as he tried to discourage me from calling 911. The fire truck came first, then the ambulance. Richard was conscious answering questions from the EMTs as I quickly collected myself to follow the ambulance to the hospital.
The Diagnosis
The fall resulted in cuts and scrapes to his face and a compressed spinal cord. After a battery of tests, I was informed he had to undergo spine surgery immediately to open up the spinal column to release the pressure on the spinal cord thereby allowing it room to decompress. This was all too much too fast. I felt like I was on a roller coaster waiting for the next drop.
After surgery the surgeon told me the injury to his spinal cord was catastrophic leaving him paralyzed from waist down. Explaining further, he said the spinal cord should be about the diameter of my pinky (small finger) but Richard’s had been compressed to the thickness of a finger nail. He gave him only a 20% chance of walking again and added if he wasn’t walking in a year, he would be in a wheelchair the rest of his life.
The Irony
The irony of it all is last November, I willingly took my life in my hands (God’s hands really) and jumped out of a small aircraft at 10,000 feet and landed safely. Two months later, my husband falls from our three feet high porch and we are totally devastated. However, the miracle in his fall is that, 1) he didn’t die, and 2) there were no broken bones in his face or anywhere else in his body. Not even a chipped tooth, although a nurse looked at his badly scraped face and thought he was a burn victim.
So, I’m sure you can understand when I say this was not what I anticipated God had for my family in 2020. As I write this, Richard is still in ICU. There is some sensitivity to touch in his lower extremities and he can move one foot very slightly. He has use of his arms but does not have control of them in all directions. He doesn’t have fine motor skills in his hands, meaning he can’t hold a fork, phone, etc. As you see, this story does not have an ending as of yet, just a gut-wrenching beginning.
It is Well
This will be a process, a wrestling between Richard and the Lord just as Jacob wrestled with the angel and would not let him go until he blessed him (Genesis 32:24-26). The doctors can only provide Richard with the skills to function in his current state, but it is the Lord who can bless Richard with restoration. There are times like this, where medicine, doctors and technology are reduced to mere aids and we must look to God for deliverance and healing.
Thinking through this day after day I am reminded of the story in 2 Kings 4:8-37 of a Shunammite woman who graciously housed Elisha every time he came through her town. After some time, Elisha seeing she was barren, blessed her womb and she had a child. Many years after enjoying the blissfulness of having a son, an only son, the child comes in from the field one day complaining of a headache. She cuddles him on her lap only to have him slip away in death.
Gathering herself and her servant the Shunammite woman sets off to find Elisha. Elisha sees her coming and sends his servant to meet her to ask if all is well. The woman replies ‘It is well.’ She sets her face like a flint and continues on her way to meet Elisha. When she arrives, she falls at Elisha’s feet and tells him her son has died.
This struck me. Her son was dead when she met the servant yet she said ‘It is well.’ My conclusion is the Shunammite woman recognized who her source was. I can imagine her thinking ‘Servant, you’re doing your job and you do it well but this is beyond your job description. I got to go to the source.’
From the Doctors to the Source
The surgeons, doctors and therapists have performed to the best of their abilities what was in their power to do. To that I say thank you, “You’ve done well.” But I acknowledge the rest is beyond their job descriptions and I have to go past the servants of modern medicine to the Source.
Jesus, You are the Source of Richard’s healing and restoration. I place him in Your Care. Take him through whatever valleys he needs to go, but hold him and don’t let him go. Take him on the backside of the mountain if You need to but don’t let him climb alone. And when you bring him out, in whatever state You will, let it be that Richard is whole in mind and soul above all else. This is my prayer.
Amen.
I Love the Lord
I love the Lord, He heard my cry and pitied every groan,
Lord, I leaped from the sky…Richard stepped off a porch.
I landed, got up and walked away. Richard did not.
Long as I live and trouble rise, I’ll hasten to His throne!
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My prayers are with you. All I can say is Thank God you had fasted for those 21 days
We are continually praying for both Richard and you that your inner man be strengthen, and that God will be glorified..
Thank you Marilyn for sharing you and Richard’s story. We will get an opportunity very soon to talk. Please know that you are not alone. I hear the words that say, “I don’t believe HE brought me this far to leave me!”
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