As told by Lori

I’ve only been in a truly emergency situation a handful of times. But each time - time seemed to stop and stand still and suddenly I was transported into a place where I was simply watching and observing all that was happening- no longer really involved in any way. Does everyone feel that way? 

The first time that happened to me was at the end of my pregnancy with my first child. I started having light contractions but noticed I was passing this greenish colored stuff. I didn’t know at the time that it was meconium and a sign that my baby was in distress. A nurse friend of ours told me to get to the hospital right away. When I arrived, a monitor was immediately hooked up and it didn’t take long to discover that my baby’s heart beat would slow way down and nearly stop with each contraction. Then suddenly it did stop all together. It seemed to me that everyone began shouting at the same moment. I felt confused and realized that they were running me into surgery. Suddenly the verses I had read that morning were shouting louder than everyone else. Ps. 22:9,10- David knew that it was God who took him from his mother’s womb - Is.46:10 - I remembered God saying, “My purpose will stand” - I just had time before they put a mask over my face to utter, “Thy will be done” 

I didn’t have a promise that John, our son, would be ok- I just had and held on to the promise that God is always in control and His purpose will stand. 

Later, after I awoke from the anesthesia I remember my doctor coming in and looking at my son- and saying, ”Well here is that little boy who I expected to take out gray and unresponsive - And look-he’s pink and screaming like he should!” I remember in that moment saying to the Lord- “For your purpose will stand! Take him now, the one You saved, for Yourself. He’s yours.”

God promised me that day that He always has everything under His control- and demonstrated to me that His promises are true!