Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Dahlia Brown, Daphne Brown
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00059B
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00:12 Welcome Back!
00:13 You know I just want to assure people with the cancer thing. 00:16 I keep getting better. 00:17 My doctor doesn't know why 00:19 but I think it is because there was one point I called JD 00:21 here at 3ABN and said, JD I need prayer because I just 00:25 got told I have cancer and I meant for JD to pray for me. 00:30 He sends it out on the 3ABN prayer line so 5,000 people 00:36 emailed me that night. 00:37 From all over the world, Cheri I am praying for you. 00:39 I'm thinking JD sent it on the prayer line, but the prayers 00:44 were amazing. 00:45 I really think God has His hand on it and it is amazing 00:47 to me every time I go into the doctor she's like you are 00:50 getting better, whatever you are doing keep doing it. 00:51 So if you have been praying, keep praying and know that I 00:55 have not even been sick. 00:56 I hope to stay that way, but I also found out from God 01:00 I learned that I can trust Him. 01:03 If I have to deal with any of this at any level, 01:06 I am beginning to feel like I can trust Him. 01:08 He knows what He is doing and He knows how I need to heal. 01:11 He is also coming back and I am okay so I just want to assure 01:15 people that I'm fine with all this. 01:18 Now I want to introduce you to some friends of mine. 01:20 Daphne and Dahlia I wanted to say thank you for being 01:24 on the program. 01:25 You are welcome! 01:27 This program in particular, when something happens in your 01:32 life that is pretty intense, How do you deal with that? 01:36 How do you stay connected to God? How do you still trust God? 01:39 The first time I heard you guys story I said what really 01:43 I have really been through nothing, I haven't even been 01:47 sick, I just got blood work or a blood test that says 01:50 this so I want to share, you to share a little bit 01:53 about where you have come from and what you guys went through. 01:57 My Name is Daphne Brown and I am from Fort Lauderdale in Florida. 02:05 This is my daughter Dahlia who in 1996 met an almost fatal 02:14 accident on the 19th of September. 02:18 So you were a college student right? 02:21 Just finished college, just started to work. 02:24 Every thing was normal, you were from Jamaica living in 02:28 Florida, great family, nice church! 02:32 Yes, everything was going just good. 02:36 On the morning of September 02:41 19th, I work the 11 to 7 shift and called my daughter about 02:46 6:30 in the morning and she Momma I just wake up, 02:50 and I'm studying my Sabbath School lesson. 02:53 I usually wake her up in the mornings, I call her just before 02:58 She went to work and she didn't call me after when she reached 03:03 work so actually I went to sleep. 03:04 While sleeping I heard somebody on the answering service 03:11 say Mrs. Brown. I didn't pay attention because 03:14 planning, I had another church sister to wake me up later on 03:19 to go to a seminar. 03:21 I said, when I wake up I will listen to the message. 03:27 Then I heard a terrible knock on the door. 03:29 I said, who could that be knocking on my door so loud? 03:33 So when I went out I saw the police and he said, 03:36 are you Mrs. Brown? 03:38 I said yes. Do you have a daughter by the name of Dahlia? 03:40 I said yes. 03:42 Well she met in an accident and they need you to get 03:46 to the hospital. 03:47 I said how bad is the accident? 03:49 He said I don't know but I would advise you to get there 03:52 as soon as you can. 03:53 So as he is speaking, what were you feeling? 03:57 I don't know if I could have held it together as a mom 03:59 because I would know 04:01 I just sensed that the Holy Ghost came over me. 04:04 About 2 to 3 feet away was a telephone hanging on the wall. 04:11 Cordless, I ran to the phone and grabbed the phone. 04:15 I dialed my pastor's number which was Pastor Leroy Labort. 04:19 I said, Pastor the police is at my door and from what I hear 04:24 Dahlia met in accident. 04:26 How bad is she? I said, I don't know but 04:28 just call and pray. He said, Sister Brown I have 04:31 an appointment for 10:00, I cannot come. 04:35 I said, Pastor, you do not need to come, just call on as many 04:37 members as you can, tell them to pray. 04:40 Because from what I hear only prayer can save her. 04:44 He said, well the associate pastor, I will ask 04:48 Pastor Maxwell to come and see you at the hospital. 04:52 Then by the time I put down the phone to call somebody else, 04:57 the phone rung, one of her work brothers called and said, 05:03 Mom, what happened to Dahlia? 05:04 She is not at work. 05:06 I said, well Dahlia had an accident, police at the door. 05:10 Put this on the pager system over head sound, 05:14 tell everybody to pray because only prayer can save her now. 05:17 So your first reaction, because of your trust in God, 05:19 is I said, I have got to get everyone praying? Yes! 05:23 And you know what is amazing to me, I believe even with 05:26 cancer, with accidents, with things that are happening with 05:29 our kids, that prayer is incredible, it is a gift that 05:33 God has given us. Yes! 05:34 He said, I promise prayer is important. 05:36 You just knew that, everybody is praying now. 05:39 So you go to the hospital? 05:42 By the time my church sister, which is 2, 3 doors down, 05:48 I called her and said, Sister Morris, 05:50 Dahlia is in an accident, 05:51 I'm going to the hospital, can you follow me? 05:53 She doesn't drive, I am the only one who drives. 05:57 The police said, do you need me for help? 05:59 I said no, I can manage. 06:01 I was calm and cool. 06:02 Let me just ask Dahlia, I want to ask Dahlia, 06:06 When all this happened, did you get into your car 06:10 to go to work? Yes! 06:11 Do you remember any part of the accident? 06:13 No, the last thing I can remember is going to, coming to 06:18 College BCC, from there on it is blank. 06:20 Okay, so not any of it? No! 06:22 Isn't that sometimes a gift from God? Yes! 06:26 So even at the hospital you are unconscious? Yes! 06:30 So when you get there she is unconscious? 06:32 Yes, so when I reached the hospital I saw this nurse, 06:36 her name is Andrea. 06:37 She saw me walking, she said are you Jamaican? I said yes! 06:41 From the look of her she looks Jamaican and she said there is 06:46 she is upstairs doing CT of the brain, 06:48 but there is a family room over there. 06:50 You may want to go and call some friends. 06:52 By that time Pastor Maxwell was there. 06:55 Two other church sisters who I had called as I was putting on 07:00 my clothes and walking up and down like a mad person. 07:02 The phone, the cordless phone. 07:05 I said, you don't need to come, all you have to do is pray. 07:10 But everybody still came, so two church sisters, 07:13 Sister Kid, now Pastor Maxwell, 07:16 and Carlos, that is her work brother. 07:19 So we all went to the room and had a season of prayer there. 07:24 Then after that I took up the phone and called my church. 07:29 My prayer partner, and said Sister Norma, Dahlia was 07:33 in an accident, pray, call as many people you can find. 07:36 pray for me. 07:37 Then she said who is there? 07:38 So she told me it was her daughter that was the nurse 07:41 in charge, in the emergency room. 07:43 Then she said she is out of CT now, do you want to go 07:50 and see, no she can't, she is not cleaned up yet. 07:57 She said yes her mom is a registered nurse she can take it 08:00 Then we all went up and I run beside her and said, 08:03 Dahlia, Mommy's here and she love you, hold on. 08:07 You are not going to leave me. 08:09 And the church stand beside me and said she can't hear. 08:13 I said, yes, yes, she is hearing. 08:16 Dahlia, I love you, I love you, I love you. 08:18 When you walked in what did you see? 08:20 Because it was a serious accident? 08:23 She was covered in blood all over. 08:26 One side there was a bad cut, that fell on her car. 08:30 Car got out of control and go over the other side. 08:34 There was a truck with a basket that fell on her car. 08:38 They had to cut her out. 08:39 Her right face was smashed, her left face was smashed. 08:46 Her left arm had a fractured bone crushed up in there. 08:52 Her left lung was punctured. 08:54 So by this she was on a ventilator. 08:57 She was covered in blood, she was not touched yet, 09:01 she just went to CT. 09:02 So what is real interesting to me is as a mom when you pulled 09:06 in, when you ran in you said all I need is you to know I 09:10 am here and I love you and you will be okay. 09:12 What you are saying Dahlia, is even with that you didn't know 09:18 anything yet? No, I didn't know anything. 09:19 Everybody is praying still? Yes! 09:23 Everybody is praying. 09:25 I go to a church, at the time, there was about 800 members. 09:29 Then all of a sudden I see people I don't know here. 09:33 People here, but I saw people coming in one by one. 09:38 One by one, by that time it was about 10, 11 o'clock 09:42 in the evening, by 3:00 in the evening almost the whole church 09:45 was there. 09:46 So you felt totally supported? Yeah! 09:49 Completely loved. Yes! and that is why I say, 09:54 it is wonderful to be a part of the family of God. 09:57 I didn't want to leave at night, and the nurse said, don't make 10:01 sense, you are not allowed in ICU, because she was in 10:06 surgical ICU, and I and her little sister who was 14 at 10:10 the time, and there were two people left with us. 10:14 We were sitting there until about 1 o'clock. 10:18 The nurse said, it don't make sense, she is not going anywhere 10:23 now and if anything we will call you, so we went home. 10:26 When I reached home that night, the answering machine was 10:29 knocked out, I had messages from all over world. 10:33 From Germany, from Australia, from Jamaica, every capital 10:41 from America here. 10:42 people, you know it spread like wild fire and months after. 10:48 You know what I love about that, is a time where I believe 10:51 that sometimes when things hit us we don't thing we are even 10:53 going to make it, and there is part of a ministry in the 10:57 body of Christ, are people that love you that says right now 11:00 she just needs to know that we are here. Yes! 11:04 We can't do anything, we can't say anything, nobody is going 11:09 to be able to get in that hospital bed with you. 11:10 Nobody is going to be able to change any of that. 11:12 Except we need to know everybody is here. 11:15 Everybody is praying, everybody is on the same page as far as we 11:21 want her life spared. 11:24 Yes! and you know on the way to the hospital, we were at a 11:29 certain spot and I still remember everyday I pass 11:31 that spot, I turned to my church sister beside me and 11:34 said, you know sister Morris, if I go to the hospital because 11:38 until then we didn't know how bad the accident was. 11:41 But the police said, just reach there as quick as you can. 11:43 I said if I go to the hospital, and Dahlia is still alive, 11:47 she is not going to die. 11:48 That is what you felt the sign was going to be? Yes! Yes! 11:51 I want to know how long was she in the hospital? 11:56 How long was she unconscious? 11:58 She was in a comma for three months, she came out of comma 12:06 but she didn't know what was happening. 12:07 She was talking and saying things she didn't know because 12:11 my mother came to see her and she didn't know. 12:13 My sister went to see her, she didn't know, the doctor said she 12:16 was still in a comma. 12:18 She was talking and would be talking like me and you, 12:20 but she was in a comma that doesn't keep her unconscious. 12:25 She didn't know what was happening. 12:27 She doesn't remember any of that. 12:29 So you don't remember any of that coming out and talking 12:32 to someone? No! 12:33 Not anybody coming in the room? No! 12:35 When did you start to understand or remember, or connect? 12:47 Maybe about February, September, January, February there about. 12:53 My mother came there in December and my sister, from Jamaica. 13:00 She did not know they came and left. 13:03 I remember my mother come and say, Julia, we use to call 13:07 her Julia, see said who am I, she said, grandma. 13:11 Oh which grandma? Cecilia, from Rosefield. 13:15 That is where she is from. 13:19 When everything was finished she didn't remember seeing her 13:23 and saying those words. 13:25 There was a point in the hospital where she actually died 13:29 wasn't there? At one point? 13:31 It was, yes, it was about 6 days after she went to the 13:37 hospital, she got Merca. 13:40 Her recovery would have been much faster if she didn't get 13:44 Merca, and Explain what that is? 13:46 Merca is a germ that is acquired when you spend long in hospital. 13:54 For too long a time, but she was there so it was transmitted 13:59 from somebody going in there with some dirty instruments 14:05 or whatever, but she also had a Craniotomy for evacuation 14:10 of hematoma, she had several surgeries. 14:14 She had eye surgery, she had reconstruction of her face. 14:17 So they had to reconstruct things? 14:20 Yes, they had to reconstruct the whole left side of her face. 14:26 She had her arm still has some rods in there that was put in. 14:32 So when she developed the Merca she had temperature over 104 14:39 degrees, so she had to be in a cooling blanket. 14:43 So that set back her progress. 14:46 So now I want to talk about, they are doing all these 14:51 surgeries, the doctor's are there with you every minute. 14:55 Your church family is with you every minute. 14:58 Definitely you are with her every minute. Yes! 15:00 Now you are starting to come out of that and starting to be 15:05 aware of your surroundings and those kind of things. 15:06 You ended up going into rehab too, so tell me a little bit. 15:11 Then you aware of what was happening? Did you understand, 15:15 Dahlia, the extent of your injury? 15:17 Yes, my mom explained to me, I didn't fully grasp it. 15:25 Being the oldest child of 3, it was like I was a baby again. 15:33 Exactly! That was hard to deal with. 15:36 What did you mean baby again? You had to learn everything 15:40 again right? I had to learn everything again. 15:43 I mean from taking a shower, to cooking a meal. 15:47 I had to learn everything, I had to learn how to redress myself. 15:51 How to comb my hair. 15:52 Exactly, how to walk, put one foot in front of the other. 15:55 How to not cross your legs, in case of falling over. 15:59 Even, at the time I lived in a house that had steps, 16:04 Somebody would have to be there guiding me up the steps, 16:08 and when I was coming down. 16:09 To me, when you say that kind of thing, like when they told me 16:14 I had cancer, I was just shocked about that, is when you know 16:19 you have to learn everything, how did you deal with the anger 16:25 of that, the unfairness of that? 16:27 I have a younger sister and at the time she was 16:31 in medical school. Right! 16:34 I learned from Rehab how to do it again, she helped me 16:43 every morning I would make her late for school. 16:48 Sometimes! Right! 16:51 She went to Rehab and she told them that? 16:56 Dahlia can't do it, with God Dahlia can do it. 16:58 said Dahlia can do that. 17:00 I said, you don't do that? It's like your own spiritual 17:09 growth, you learn one step at a time. 17:12 I had to learn to drive again. 17:13 How to cook again, it just your life is on a building block. 17:18 Starting all over again. 17:19 And fight for your own recovery. 17:21 Did you every feel like, because you said, I went through 17:25 the depression, I went through anger, I went through all that 17:30 stuff, I am learning little tiny things. 17:31 I am learning how to button my shirt. 17:33 I would be like, I don't want to learn this. 17:36 But I want my shirt buttoned. 17:38 Do you know what I mean? Yeah! 17:39 So you have to do it and that is what's... 17:41 That is what she was doing. 17:42 You have to say do it. 17:43 So you fought through that? Yeah! 17:45 When you fought through that, was there a point where all of 17:50 a sudden you began to get a sense of getting yourself back? 17:54 Yes, I after going through Rehab, my goal was to go back 18:02 to work again. 18:04 What kind of work did you do? 18:06 I worked as a physical therapist in the state of Florida. 18:09 That's huge. 18:11 When somebody says right now you are learning how to button 18:15 your shirt, you're saying I was a physical therapist? Yes! 18:18 So you were very competent? Yes! 18:22 In your life that you did, you had all the schooling stuff 18:26 and now you are saying my goal is to get back to work. 18:29 Exactly! Did you? 18:30 My goal was, and I am back at work now. 18:33 I love that! 18:35 I am working as a registered physical therapist now. 18:38 I was in a comma, I had memory loss, but I am working physical 18:42 therapist assistant now, PTA. 18:45 So you are in the same field? Same field yes, only thing I 18:49 am not doing is evaluations. 18:50 But when somebody actually needs the work done you can step in? 18:55 I can do it, Yes! 18:57 Do you help someone that ever been in an accident? 19:01 It is different from accidents, I do knee injuries, shoulder 19:08 injuries, yes, but not motor vehicle accidents. 19:11 To be a physical therapy you have different areas. 19:16 So she doesn't do the trauma, like she was in trauma. 19:21 She doesn't do trauma. 19:22 She does like strokes, and knee replacement and 19:30 hip replacements. 19:32 So you could have been my therapist on my hip replacement? 19:35 I would have loved that. 19:37 So fighting, you fought from this horrendous accident, 19:43 to even come out of a comma to learning how to, did you 19:49 have to learn to speak again too? Yes! 19:50 When she was intubated, that means they put tube into your 19:58 mouth and down you throat so you can breath. 20:00 After 10 days they had to do a tracheotomy, that is why she 20:05 speaks like that. 20:08 They put a breathing tube through her throat. 20:11 So because of that she had to learn to speak all over again 20:15 when the tube was taken out. 20:17 During that time you are not able to talk. 20:20 So during that time, didn't you as a mother want 20:25 to do everything? Yes! 20:26 We didn't get this in, but when she was there, after the prayer 20:34 thing, I requested and she had an anointing. 20:38 She was going to one church and I was going to one and I 20:44 called the Pastor Macline and Pastor Dalficros and Jim MacLain 20:49 and they said all the family should come together one Sabbath 20:54 afternoon and he took the elders from the 2 churches and we had a 20:58 prayer and anointing service for her. 21:00 I believe what it said in James 5, is any among you sick, 21:06 let them call for the Pastor and let them pray over them, 21:12 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, 21:15 and the Lord shall raise them up. 21:17 From that day she had the accident, until this day, 21:21 I know that it is faith that has kept her alive. 21:25 Amen, so let me go back to the Rehab then, because a lot of 21:30 people would say, is the fight worth it? 21:33 Yes it is worth it. 21:35 In what sense, because you know what, don't you think 21:37 that a lot of us, we think 21:40 I don't know if I could do that. 21:41 I don't know if that happened to me, could I do that? 21:44 You're saying absolutely? 21:46 You have to have the determination to get back to 21:51 were you were before. 21:52 To see that determination, you will give up. 21:57 My mom always taught me to never give up. 22:02 That was something that I could never give up. 22:04 It was tough when I came out, I had to get somebody 22:10 to take me to school, to work, it was unreliable. 22:15 Then I got a job again, and the principles she instilled 22:19 in me, made me go back for driving lessons all over again. 22:24 After driving lessons I started to go to Rehab. 22:27 I got to the point where I said, after going to Rehab, 22:32 I have to work again. 22:33 Then I started working at the Rehab tech, and they said I have 22:36 to go higher. 22:38 Then I started as a Rehab Aide. 22:40 As you go into that, I assume because you have difficulty 22:45 forming speech, that you have difficulty thinking, but you 22:50 your thinking is coming back just fine? Yeah! 22:53 So my assumption shouldn't be there? I should ask you, do you 23:00 difficulty processing still? No! 23:01 What I was taught in Rehab, I like I need to tell Mommy, 23:07 x, y, z, call her something I would forget, but I would learn 23:13 in Rehab, if you get notebook write it down if 23:16 you forget it, it is in your notebook to remind you. 23:20 I still use that technique. 23:21 So what you are saying is because of the short term memory 23:27 loss is that I have to write things down? 23:28 So you don't have the luxury of saying I will remember that? 23:33 Something's I can, some things I forget, because I forget. 23:37 She always walk with a little note pad in her pocket. 23:39 If she thinks she is going to forget it, she writes it down. 23:43 Then is she forgets it, if she doesn't, she doesn't. 23:48 Okay then let me just ask you about your spiritual life. 23:53 How did you process all of this out with God? 23:59 Even me with Cancer I am not even sick yet and I am saying 24:04 God, what's up? 24:05 So did you have to process that out with God? 24:08 Yes, at first my question was why? 24:13 Why and my mom, I said why did it happen, why didn't I die? 24:23 So the big whys were right there. 24:24 After I spoke to God for over two years and He said, 24:31 let Me lead you. 24:32 When I decided to follow Him the why became, 24:37 thank God I'm alive. 24:39 So to go through that period of why didn't I just die, 24:44 that is pretty normal? Yes! 24:46 I think about what you have been through Dahlia with all 24:52 that learning every single thing. 24:54 I can't even imagine, part of me thinks I can imagine a 24:57 little bit, but I probably can't even imagine. 25:00 What does it feel like to not remember what this is for, 25:04 what this button is for? 25:06 How do you get there? 25:08 What you are saying is that was about two years? 25:10 Even saying why didn't I just die? 25:13 Yeah and the Lord said to me one day, when I was saying why? 25:19 He said, trust Me I will take you. 25:23 So I no longer say why, my faith has grown so much. 25:28 I no longer say why, what if, I know if I have something to 25:32 done, He will be there for me, and He will carry me through 25:37 whatever circumstance I am going to go through. 25:38 He will be there beside me. 25:40 And He has been, He has been faithful. 25:42 He will be and He has been. 25:44 There is no doubt about that. 25:46 Let me ask you, I have always wanted to know this. 25:48 When you sense that relationship that is so real that I can go 25:55 through these things, how did that, what has that change like? 26:02 because you have always had a relationship with God right? 26:04 But now it seems like it is way different? 26:08 Yeah, the text in Philippians, "I can do all things through 26:10 Christ which strengthen me. " 26:13 That text has given me a lot of strength. 26:15 If I trust in God I know He will come and do these things. 26:21 My favorite song my Mom use to sing to me when I was sick, 26:25 Day by day with each passing moment, strengthen me to face 26:30 my trial here. 26:31 Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment, 26:34 I've no cause for worry or for fear, 26:38 So if I know I can trust Him in everything, all I have to do 26:41 is walk in His steps and He will cover what ever 26:44 I go through safely. 26:45 Cause you know there are people in the medical staff 26:48 that when you came in with your accident I am sure when they 26:52 found out that you were going back to work, they said, 26:54 this cannot be. Yes! 26:56 They saw you, you weren't expected to live. 27:00 Yet now you are resuming your life, with changes for sure. 27:05 Yes, with changes! 27:06 Where she use to work, I work there sometimes too, 27:10 everybody is so surprised that she is still in 27:13 the physical therapy field. 27:15 I have church sisters, and brethren, when they saw her 27:20 first time, they wouldn't go back because one church sister 27:24 said, you know Sister Brown, when I saw Dahlia, 27:26 I said even if Dahlia lived, she is going to be a vegetable 27:30 for the rest of her life. 27:31 That's what most people were thinking. Yes! 27:34 Nobody can believe, but when we were leaving the hospital 27:38 the Neuro surgeon did not even give me an appointment to come 27:43 back and the rehab doctor said, didn't the Neuro surgeon? 27:47 I said no. He said it is going to be a long slow recovery. 27:51 I turned to him and said, Dr. Stull, if God wants it to be 27:55 long and slow it will be long and slow. 27:58 When I went back in two weeks with her, he could not believe 28:01 she was the same, her recovery was so fast. 28:05 So let me ask you as her mom, I can have a lot of things 28:10 happen to me, but if Jackie gets a hang-nail, 28:12 I'm wanting to help her. 28:15 You know how we are with our kids. Yes! 28:19 So with all this going around, how was your faith, and I'm 28:24 asking that in knowing that the first thing you thought about, 28:28 even when the police were at the door, was to call the Pastor 28:30 So your faith was always strong? 28:32 Yes, always? How was it during this whole thing? 28:34 It was so strong because a lot of people say it is because 28:40 my faith why she made it through. 28:42 Because when everybody, I said she is going to come back. 28:45 She is going to go back to work. 28:47 I never flinched neither right... 28:51 No and all through this until this day, it was about 2 months 28:58 after before I shed a tear. 28:59 When I came out of church, after Sabbath School, I was going 29:03 to see her in the Rehab, a church brother called and said, 29:08 Sister Brown, how is Dahlia and I burst out in tears. 29:11 That was the first time? First time. 29:13 Because why? I just had a strong faith in God 29:17 He was going to take her through and all I requested of people 29:21 were prayer. 29:22 But they gave me everything. 29:24 They brought food to the hospital to me, because I never 29:28 used to go home. 29:29 Because I see all the tears in your eyes. 29:34 I was in need of nothing, I'm telling you. 29:35 Hold on, hold on because I see all the tears in your eyes. 29:38 Is it because you saw the faith every time you looked at her? 29:41 I knew that was it? 29:42 Every time you looked at your mom you saw that she was there. 29:47 And strong! It is important, her favorite 29:52 song is 100, Great Is Thy Faithfulness. 29:56 When I sing the song, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, it reminds me 30:02 of how strong she was and the faith she demonstrated. 30:08 So you were like a rock to her? Yes! Yes! 30:11 When you were finally able to let go, you just needed to cry? 30:18 I mean I just needed to let go? 30:20 Yes, but I don't know why, but it just came out and he was 30:24 standing there and he commented, Sister how is Dahlia? 30:28 I just burst out into tears and that was the first. 30:31 Until this day I don't know how I made it, because I got 2 weeks 30:35 off from work. That's it? Yes! 30:38 I was going in a circle, she was the hospital here, I work here. 30:43 I come from work, I stop here. 30:45 She her and go home and get maybe an hour sleep. 30:48 Then I came back to the hospital and see her, go back to work. 30:52 That's how I went around. 30:54 With a little 14 year old, I don't know how, 30:56 but God saw us through. 31:00 We had good church brethren and neighbors. 31:06 I must include neighbors because neighbors take care of little 31:09 one for me. 31:10 There is a friend of mine that said the biggest thing that she 31:14 remembered when she went through a really tragic 31:16 thing in her family. 31:18 It was that people came around her and she thought she 31:20 remembered the story of the paraplegic that his friends 31:23 put him on a stretcher. 31:25 She said I needed stretcher bearers around me. 31:29 For people to almost carry things for right now. 31:34 You had that for the first couple years that people came in 31:37 with food, people came in with support, people came in to just 31:41 let you know we are praying. 31:42 All those things. 31:43 So it sounds like your faith didn't change much. 31:48 Did it actually grow? 31:50 It grows, it certainly grows. 31:53 Did you ever ask God why? 31:56 I never, I never asked God why? 31:58 How could you say it like that? 32:01 Most people would say why not, why didn't you ask God why? 32:05 Why my little girl? Why my child? 32:08 You know, I don't know but it comes to my mind one time. 32:15 I try to remember, I can't remember now but it is a saying 32:22 we cannot Lord, that purpose see, but all is well 32:27 that is done by Thee. 32:29 I said it to my sister, you know I have know that verse for long. 32:33 It is so easy to say the first part, we cannot Lord that 32:40 purpose see, but how easy is it to say all is well when you know 32:43 daughter met in an accident and could have died? 32:47 But it is true, God has a plan. 32:50 I tell her several time, I have to be there like a rock for her. 32:54 I said we do not know what could have happened to you 32:58 if you had not meet in that accident. 33:00 Maybe you would have been dead some other way. 33:02 Until then we will never understand why some of these 33:06 things happen. 33:07 So your saying it is settled with me that God loves me 33:11 so much, that I know if this was not part of a bigger plan 33:15 we wouldn't be here? Yes! 33:17 So I want to ask you, how has this blessed you guys? 33:24 Is there a blessing that has come out? 33:27 There are lots of blessings that come out of it to me. 33:32 It makes my faith stronger. 33:36 As the disciples asked Jesus why it happened to the man 33:45 that was sick, was it his fault or was it his parents fault? 33:50 He said, that the work of God may be made manifest. 33:54 This could have happened to her to convert somebody. 33:57 Who knows who could be listening to the program, 34:00 going through something like this? 34:02 We do not know and until then we will never understand why 34:07 it happened. 34:08 What about you, when I say that? 34:10 You know when I was sick, most time that she said 34:14 When I was coming out, she said to me this will be a testimony 34:20 to show others that God is alive and He still there and He 34:25 still answers prayers. 34:27 Three things, my faith has grown stronger, 34:31 I was thinking back from when I was born, but after going 34:35 through this ordeal, He has taught me how to trust Him. 34:39 We cannot always see what is done by Thee, I have learned if 34:46 we put our hand in His and let Him lead, 34:49 He will carry us through whatever we have to 34:51 go through safely. 34:52 So what you are saying is that it really did bring you back 34:56 to a stronger relationship with God, that I need to right now. 35:00 Not that I would like to, not that I am going to try to, 35:03 I need to put my hand in Your hand. Yes! 35:06 I need to know that You are God. 35:10 I now know that He still answers and He still hears our prayers. 35:17 You love your job? Yes! 35:20 You love your life? I love my life. 35:21 You have a good car? Yes I do! 35:26 The fact that you are driving again, I think how fun is that? 35:28 You know there is a part of me that says that would be the 35:31 hardest thing for me is my independence. 35:34 You are saying the more healing that happens the more 35:38 independent you become again? Yes! 35:39 Which was a big deal! 35:41 When they passed me at the driving school, my momma said 35:46 to me, you are not going behind a car wheel until I pass. 35:51 I will give you 6 months of driving lessons, and if you 35:55 drive okay, you can go. 35:58 So even though you got okayed by the state, your momma 36:01 was saying, no? 36:03 How fun are you? 36:06 You are saying I am not losing her? 36:10 So what was real interesting is the love she has for you. 36:13 She says just drive with me for awhile. 36:15 So she did the 6 months and you said Okay? 36:17 Yes, I was let her drive with me some time and then I drove 36:25 with her and let her drive alone after. 36:27 Short distance she goes, but she still doesn't go the highway. 36:31 She drives with a phone. She bought me a phone. 36:36 And I have a phone? So we keep in touch. 36:40 She would call me and say, I get so frightened sometime. 36:46 God forgives her little foolishness. 36:49 Somebody go near to her and she nearly hit the person. 36:53 The person swinged over before, she called me crying. 36:57 I said, don't do that, you're going to kill me with that. 37:06 This man nearly run into me, I said wait until everything 37:09 is finished and then call me because I would die with her. 37:14 What is really interesting to me is those are very real things 37:18 that we all would have to go through. 37:19 The fact that you guys are on the program and share those 37:23 with us, I want to say thank you and God bless you with 37:26 all that. 37:27 Your recovery is still happening? 37:30 It is still happening, and I want most important. 37:35 I have a brother and a sister. 37:36 Who's standing, my brother is, both are younger, but they 37:42 stand behind me. 37:43 If I have a problem, I can call them. 37:46 I am going to do surgery some time next month, for my eye. 37:51 They are behind me. 37:53 We didn't get to that, she lost one eye. 37:57 It wrecked all of her face. 37:59 Left side of her face was all lifeless. 38:03 She has a plate and everything that is in there. 38:05 Then she lost the eye, so she had inoculation that is taken 38:10 out of the eye. 38:11 She has a false eye now. 38:13 There is some problem with it, you can see the difference when 38:17 it was put in at first you couldn't, so she is going to 38:19 have a surgery. 38:21 So you still are not done with all the surgeries? No! 38:23 No! Before we break, we are going on 38:27 break and I want to say thank you for being on the show. 38:29 Can we close with prayer? 38:31 No problem. 38:32 Dear Father in Jesus name, Dahlia has been through so 38:38 much and I know that You are the God of healing. 38:42 I just pray Father a special prayer for her upcoming eye 38:46 surgery, I pray for the joy that she has and I love her. 38:51 I love the joy and she has fought, she has returned back 38:55 to work and is driving again. 38:56 You have kept your hand on her. 38:57 I want with every single person watching in this program. 39:01 I want to join together in prayer just saying for her 39:04 recovery, to be 100%, I just pray for her body. 39:09 Her mind, her spiritual condition, her whatever. 39:14 The surgery with her face, but definitely her relationship 39:17 with You, I want to pray for her mom, I want her mom for my mom. 39:22 I want to just pray for her strength, I want to pray that 39:27 people still continue to come around them. 39:30 Continue to uphold and uplift both of them. 39:33 I want to pray Father that Your Holy Spirit will fill them up. 39:36 That they may feel the joy of who You are and that You are God 39:40 I pray that someday when You come back, when we all are 39:44 completely transformed and the twinkle of an eye that we 39:47 don't have to deal with any of this. 39:48 I just want to see them skipping and dancing across 39:51 the sea of glass. 39:52 I thank you that You are God and you say comfort one another 39:56 with those promises. 39:57 I pray for that with every single person that watches 40:00 this program with any addiction that we deal with that someday 40:04 we will never see these things again, we will never see car 40:08 accidents, or death, or addictions or any of this 40:11 stuff that hits us now. 40:13 I just pray Father until that day give us strength. 40:17 Fill us with love, in Jesus name, AMEN! 40:20 Thank you for joining us. 40:22 Thank you for being on the program. 40:24 We will be right back, stay with us. |
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