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Has your life ever been so incredible that you thought nothing bad could ever penetrate your perfect little world? You had everything under control and you didn't need help from anyone...including God. I was at this point almost three years ago. I had a great husband, a great kid, and another baby on the way. We lived in a great house, had a comfortable lifestyle, and we had great friends. The only time I thought about God was when I went to church on Sunday...My life was perfect...I mean really, what did I need God for?


Then I got a dose of reality. Real life came knocking on my door and my life changed in an instant and it will never be the same again. My newborn was one week old and while I knew that he would spit up a little after each bottle, what I did not know was that his reflux was life threatening. At exactly one week old he refluxed an entire feeding and sucked every bit of it into his lungs. I watched my infant turn blue and I watched him so desperately trying to breathe that his eyes were literally bulging out of his head. My husband was frantically trying to get some oxygen in him as we waited for the ambulance. Later at the hospital as I stood over him watching him take each and every breath, I sobbed..."How can I do this? I'm never going to be able to leave his side...what if it happens again?" I don't know how to explain what I was feeling except for pure terror. My baby had come so close to death and at this point we were not sure how he had been affected by oxygen deprivation. I sobbed and cried and then from deep within my soul, the things I had grown up learning about in church took over and I cried out to God...In an instant my fear and terror turned to peace and comfort and I felt God say, "Charlette, this beautiful child is mine. I am guarding him and he is going to be healthy again. I am entrusting him to your care but I am always with him. You don't have to worry or stand over him every minute because I am always with him." From that moment on, I never worried about his reflux again. It also brought me back into the arms of my Heavenly Father who was waiting for me all the time. Since that time I have lived real life twenty four hours a day seven days a week. For the first year of Grant's life I got a maximum of two to three hours of sleep a night and sometimes I was so bone numbingly tired that all I could do was fall on my knees and call out to God. Often, I am ashamed to say, I would wish for death. That is how exhausted and unstable I was. I would say to God, "I can't do this. This is more than I can be. I can't go on anymore, I can't be a good mother, I can't be a good wife, I can't be a good friend, I can't be a good Christian..." Then one day I heard this song come on the radio and time stood still. It was as if God was speaking right to my heart and I let the words carry me into his presence. This song and God's Grace brought me through some of the most difficult times in my life....Reality...Real life...sometimes it is so wonderful you are on that high mountain...somtimes it seems you can't go on...the seas are so stormy you can't see the shore...but I promise if you put your trust, your Faith, and your hope in him and rest on his shoulders, he will lift you up and make you more than you ever thought you could be.


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