Praise the Lord!

What has he done for you? This verse is asking us to share the great things he has done.

I’ll start, with a shortened version of my miracle girl. When my daughter Kristan was only 8 1/2 months old, she had a routine ear, eye, nose, and throat infection. A normal infection for a child, right?

After several days of medication, her fever shot up to 105 degrees, dangerously high. I immediately called the doctor’s office. It was late in the afternoon, so the nurse asked me to bring her to the office in the morning.

After the phone call, I went to her room to check up on her. She was listless and didn’t seem to recognize me. When I picked her up, I noticed the back of her hand was swollen. It had not been that way 10 minutes earlier. So I called the doctor back.

The nurse asked me to hold while she talked with the doctor. When she got back on the phone, she asked how soon I could get there.

During this time, my husband was at the neighbor’s, ready to pick up our only car at the mechanic’s garage. I ran outside and flagged them down as they drove down the street.

They took us to the doctor’s office, which was closed. The nurse was waiting at the door to let us in. My husband, Scott and our neighbor went to pick up the car while Kristan and I went to see the doctor.

He checked her quickly and then told me he thought she had meningitis. He took Kristan and I to the hospital in his personal car and asked the janitor to let my husband know where we were when he returned. (No cell phones in those days!)

In turned out that she did have meningitis, and she spent two weeks at the hospital.

The doctor later told me that she would have died if we had waited until morning to get her medical help.

I learned that the swelling hand is a rare side effect of menigitis.

Here’s the great thing God did. He made sure she got the medical care she needed by causing her hand to swell. Because of that, the doctor diagnosed her disease over the phone. I think both of those are miracles God sent to save her.

God saved my sweet miracle girl’s life.

What great things has God done for you?

Thank you, Lord, for the many great things you do in our lives. Thank you for saving my daughter’s life.