JENNA AT HOME!!
Home for turkey-day holiday, and I am here to say I am THANKFUL to GOD for this wonderful gift in my life, as damaged as she may be. May she be restored, healed, and returned to an even better glory than her former self. We are going to have lunch with our Pastor after services this sunday, and I plan on asking everyone there to lay hands on Jenna and see if we can move a mountain!
Today I went to meet a transport vehicle from the CCS hospital, at Champaign, IL, and when Jenna and crew finally arrived (nearly 2hrs late–don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining) I was extremely happy to see Jenna in FINE form. It is hard to judge objectively. I half want to fall into the faith side and say its the prayers that are helping bring her out, and half want to chalk it up to happy coincidence. I have been burned very severely in the past trying to mark up what I saw as improvements when they turned out to be just momentary turns of mood.
But I’ve got to come down on the side of faith. Faith can’t hurt, it can only help. I think when I write these things of a certain college friend who I used to be so much like. I wont name him but he now typifies how I used to be about 15 years ago. Even when I say these things I am reminded that it is so easy to fall into wishful thinking, and self-delusion. But, I just choose faith. I choose to believe Jenna will be restored 100% and beyond, even now at this late date. If she woke up tomorrow her old self, if not better, I wouldn’t bat an eye. I declare it now as I have before, I BELIEVE this girl can come back as a testament to the power of her Creator.
Even Stephen Hawking admits there is likely a Creator. How can you have jack zippity nothing, then suddenly a big bang when EVERYTHING suddenly exists. Physics, of which I am an extremely avid if inept student, simply cannot approach explaining it.
In any event, I err on the side of believing in Jenna’s full and headline-making recovery. Not to make headlines, but to bring her back. She doesn’t deserve this, and neither does her little boy. May God’s grace find them both.