There is a person I can think of who has been through a lot of physical torment for about the past 47 years or so. At the time she was about 16 and dove off a floating platform breaking her neck and leaving her with nothing but neck movement.
Her first few years lead to a lot of questions ans seeking answers. She established a ministry to persons facing physical adversity. The odds her her living past her 20's were not good that was just the facts dealing with quadriplegia in the 1960's. But even now she is again fighting for her health as she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer about two years ago. Try and find the book Joni. She's written many books and she has good insight in dealing with the fears and emotions involved with disabilities. Her name is Joni Ericson Tada.
Since she was 16 years old every day her family or an assistant or now her husband gets her up and dressed. One interesting thing I've noticed. Because quads loose stomach and diaphragm muscles she should not be able to sing yet she does. She was a paint {artist} before her accident and yet she still can paint.
Personally I had my own world turned upside down 28 years ago this month. The events that happened and the eventual outcome are such I can only see GOD's hand in it. 28 years go this month I kissed my first wife good-bye for the last time as I left for work. An hour and a half later a co-worker was driving me home. The hearse hadn't even arrived at the house. She had a massive heart attack in the driveway and my dad couldn't bring her back with CPR nor could a doctor had either had one been there.
This next part is for what some are questioning about Job's family being restored. The window in my life with her was closed. Within a few weeks other doors would begin opening that would first shake me to my core even to a point of trying to run.
I took time off a few weeks. Then I took a transfer to another facility a few miles away as I was working maintenance in a nursing home and the company had several in town. That decision would open more doors into my life including meeting a woman whom I became close friends with at work.
We got to talking usually eating lunch together then we started dating of sorts with her kids in tow. One date something bad went wrong. We were to meet at a mall for a movie. She was late and when she got there she was not herself. We went in and we sat down at the food court. She went somewhere for a minute then came back saying she felt weird. I went to get some cookies thinking it was blood sugar. A few minutes later she tried to get up and fell to the floor.
I carried her out of the mall to her car and an officer pulled up behind me and asked which hospital? I told him and he said stay close and we left out him running lights and siren with me following. She was a CNA in a nursing home and has sat with those dieing many times. Only this time it was herself and she was describing things to me.
We made it to the ER and it was touch and go with her armed drawn tight to her chest unable to come down. They had no answers. A few days later her preacher came in with a Deacon and laid hands on her for healing. What happened next is hard to explain. I felt the presence of peace and calm unlike any I have known before or since. From that calm came an inaudible voice but words I heard by something I can't explain say "It's going to be OK".
What would you think at that point? GOD is going to heal? That's not what was said though. Yea at first it was taken that way. But things kept happening. Next came a mental numbness that hit me no emotion that lasted a day or so. At that point I was ready to run mainly because of fear as I had not experienced this feeling before.
I'm not Catholic but an elderly Nun at the hospital took me to the side and said OK what's going on? She could tell. I explained it to her and she said the mind and body must have rest. I went home early and rested a day and in about two days I was OK. Nearly 3 months later she was still in the hospital still no answers just some return of use in her arms and hands.
Before this happened we had gotten serious and my mind was not changed by this so we married in the hospital. It would be six months before her discharge.
I'm not going to lie and say it all went smooth. We had a real rough first year or two. But despite all that hit us we kept believing.
It is mans desire to see the outcome of a painting before the artist is finished and it is completed. We'll see things we don't understand in it until after it is completed and the artist can explain and show us. We did soon realize how perfect a plan GOD had for us in our future. 10 years later I would be the one disabled though left with my physical strength and ability to still care for her. I depend on her, she depends on me, and we both depend on GOD. For reasons I did not understand 28 years ago GOD took my first wife home at the age of 23. This was the person I had planned to grow old with. My wife today is not a replacement she is another woman I feel in love with and married. In doing so I also gained two teenagers LOL.
I hate to think of what would have happened had I ran off or had I not heard what I heard. Lot's of prayers were said because difficult decisions were being made that effected several persons. She's a blessing to me. Yes indeed we asked GOD why when it happened. Some answers take years to understand and some can not be understood this side of heaven. I do know this. The person I was 28 years ago could not have endured this because I did not have the maturity nor wisdom to make the decisions I'd face in a matter of a few months. Acting in faith trusting GOD to be there can be difficult because we all want to do it our way. We forget how our actions affect others even ones we do not know.
The sickness? In the past nine months she's faced Asthma, mild Emphysema, and Thyroid Cancer. Right now is a calm.
This is so often how God works. Satan sets a horrible destructive bomb and forlorn pieces are left scattered all over. Then God ranges out even wider than the pieces and gathers them into something new and better.
I’ve had asthma all my life; had to be rushed to the hospital a couple of times during my youth. I may face thyroid cancer down the line. I have leg pain, difficulty breathing sometimes, which stems from pain right below where my heart is; sometimes I have pain where the prostate is, forcing me to stand up from sitting down.
And just now, my short term memory and typing are failing me. Like I’ve said, I’m not yet 30. Why am I facing problems those three times my age usually face?