so this week God worked in a big way through my wife kasey and i want to tell you about it. i want to tell you how BIG God is and how He has gifted my wife and is using her to impact lives. YES, i’m,
bragging…on BOTH of them!
the story starts a few months ago, september 3, 2011 to be exact. i was asked to help pick up some lumber. so i drove over an hour to pick up lumber from an Amish sawmill. i was amazed by everything that i saw that day! never in my life had i seen anything close to what i was encountering. their farm was so beautiful and so well cared for. piles of logs and lumber bigger than i could have ever imagined possible. it was obvious that these people knew how to work.
then it happened, the owner of the sawmill came out to talk with my brother-in-law about the lumber he had ordered and to find out what we were taking with us that day. i would say the man was in his late 50′s or maybe in his 60′s and he was in a manual wheelchair, pushing himself along the stone driveway. i was blown away by his kindness and trust. i was greatly impacted by this man, just in seeing him for a matter of minutes. talk about determination, discipline, hardworking…the list goes on. i was amazed. i wanted to know his story. i wanted to know why he was so different than the people i work with day after day in my office. i left there wondering!
this past saturday, kasey was working in the hospital and met this very same man, mind you we live over an hour from the sawmill! he was in our local hospital and needing medical treatment. God had the right therapist for him!
before her visit with him was done, she knew exactly who he was and that i had been to his sawmill. after telling him that, he even remembered the order i was picking up, 5 months ago! she also found out his story. he was hit by a drunk driver over 20 years ago and was partially paralyzed. OVER 20 YEARS in that wheelchair, running a farm and a sawmill! he had trouble getting a proper seat for his chair and had developed medical problems due to the improper seating. he and his family had grown discouraged to say the least. this sent kasey on a mission, because wheelchair seating just so happens to be a specialty of hers!
monday, just two days later, she finds a medical supplier that had a seat for the man. not just any seat, i’m talking the EXACT size and everything! not only did they have the seat, the company was able to supply the seat for FREE! then another patient on kasey’s schedule just so happened to cancel their appointment. this gave kasey the opportunity to personally deliver the new, FREE, seat to this man over in the hospital.
God is SO much bigger than anything i can wrap my head around! people can doubt His sovereignty and foreknowledge and whatever else they want to doubt. NOT ME! these details don’t just fall into place by some chance. they were orchestrated by an amazing God. i’m so thankful for Him and for how He has gifted my wife. she longs to serve people and help them find healing and comfort. she has been given the ability to understand the human body and know how to bring healing to it. God made her that way and she uses the gifts He gave her day after day!
so i’m here…
bragging…on BOTH of them!
(the pics in this post were from the man’s sawmill and taken with my iPhone 4…)
