The Christmas Miracle

As the hormonal girl that I am, I have been known to on occasion enjoy a chic flick. I may scope the Lifetime Channel to see if they have some sort of holiday inspired feel good movie. Some are love stories, and others are inspirational. I have my "must see" movies during the holiday season as well. I have to watch the Grinch, "Christmas Vacation" and we enjoy our tradition of Chinese take out while watching "A Christmas Story" on Christmas Eve. I am always filled with Christmas Spirit when I watch "It's a wonderful life" and "Miracle on 34th street". The warm fuzzy feelings from seeing this amazing stories of triumph, love and Christmas miracles. But have you witnessed one? Have you seen the amazing light of God's blessing during the holidays? I do believe I can say that I have.

An amazing man, husband and father of 5, and coach to dozens of kids became unresponsive late one evening while talking with his wife. His heart stopped beating and his wife had to do what no wife would ever dream of doing. She had to call 911 and perform CPR until help could arrive. The initial reports were very scary. And Dusty had to be put into an induced coma so he could stabilize. The big question that first 12 hours was if there was brain activity. Over the course of 72 hours he went from critical to responding to verbal commands and today he was even joking with his wife. The response from the wee little community of Bethel has been overwhelming and incredibly amazing. I was blessed to join with hundreds of others at the football field where Dusty has spent countless hours coaching and forming young men. We each lit a candle and joined in prayers of praise and thanksgiving for all that God had done in Dusty's life and prayed for God's continued work to be done. We sang a few Christmas carols and his current basketball team did a team whooping and hollering in his honor. The road is still long, but a full recovery has been claimed in Jesus' name.

Tomorrow Aaron and I will enjoy Chinese take out and A Christmas Story with the kids and after they go to bed I will watch It's a wonderful life while I wrap the last of the gifts and prepare for our celebration of the birth of Christ. I don't doubt that I will do the same thing next year as well. But I have a suspicion that many of us will always remember the Christmas that we witnessed God's hand move and witnessed a miracle. May your holiday season be blessed and may you and yours have a very Merry Christmas. All praise be to God.