WHAT! ANOTHER STORM!

Since we were on the subject of storms in our life, I thought it appropriate to tell about a storm that happened one sunny July 4Th. It was when our granddaughter was between her Junior and Senior Year at college. She had her Senior recital at the end of her Junior year and was looking forward to smooth sailing throughout her Senior year. Well, the smooth sailing was not quite how it turned out. I will try to tell you some of the details of it now.

Our granddaughter had gone to some friends house by a lake on this specific fourth of July. They had a rig set up where you would grab a hold of a rope and it would take you sailing down to the lake and you jumped off into the lake and could swim back. All went well until the apparatus shook a bit and our granddaughter lost her grip and landed on the ground below. (It was about a 15 foot fall). It was far enough to do a great deal of damage to her heal and her wrist and elbow. For a piano major, this was a devastating news. She had performed an absolutely flawless recital yet that spring and was well on her way in her endeavored field.

They took her in to the hospital and the doctor tried to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. She had shattered tiny bones in her wrist that needed to be reset and fixed as well as elbow and heel bones to pin together, or she would never be able to play the piano like an accomplished pianist again.

She was to play at our grandson's wedding in just about a month. Now it was looking grim, if she would ever get to see her dreams of just playing come to pass.

Many people prayed for her throughout the surgery and through the night. Her mom literally walked around the hospital crying out for His WILL to be done in her life. I was praying at home and reading scripture and the thought came to me and I received peace from it. The thought was--When God gave our granddaughter the GIFT of music, He knew then this accident would happen, so if she was to use her GIFT, He would just have to restore her and give it BACK TO HER ONCE AGAIN!!!

She came through the surgery and her Piano professor from college came to visit her. They both knew this was a tremendous UPHILL battle she was facing.

With determination and the help of God, she went back to school that fall in a wheel chair and finished her Senior year.

After much effort and therapy God did answer our prayers, and gave her the ability to play beautifully again. She went on to teach piano while getting her Masters degree in Piano Pedagogy.

We learned what great parents she had during these months. Her dad built a ramp for her to come and go that summer and built a ramp at the Sorority House so she could function while she was wheeling around to classes. She healed and no longer needs the wheel chair and is the proud mother of a 15 month old and a newborn girl. Read again, "OUR CUTIE IS ONE TODAY".

Wisdom--As the Israelites remembered what God did for them, let us not forget what GOD IS DOING FOR US ON A DAILY BASIS! Pound another nail into the side of the barn!!!