There are 2 things I’ve learned that go hand in hand.  One is being thankful and the other is being content.  It’s easier to be thankful when you’re content. 

I don’t know if it was planned this way, but the day this will be posted will be 1 month since I was “walking through the valley of the shadow of death”. 

I can still hear the doctor tell me “You have a brain bleed” and while my entire family was falling apart I was so calm.  

Even though I was calm I was reading between the lines loud and clear, and I had so many things going through my head.  Things I hoped to do on this Earth and then things I was concerned about…

Become a grandma. 

Travel the world with my husband.  

Run for office again. 

My parents burying their 2nd child in less than 2 years. 

But then I felt peace. 

I was asked if I needed a minute with Steven and Amberly and that’s about all I got.  A minute. I was so much at peace I was completely content in my faith in the Lord in that moment. 

I told them both, “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but don’t worry about me, I know where I’m going, I’ve talked to the Lord”.   

I knew it was crushing them, but I needed them to have the reassurance of my relationship with my Savior.  I was so content in what I was telling them and so thankful for that moment. 

I ended up being transported to Methodist Hospital in Houston and told I would be in the hospital for at least 21 days, if not longer.  

There are so many moments I could share, big and small, where the Lord was working a miracle.  I told everyone that walked into my ICU room “I know who’s working on me”.   There’s nothing that could persuade me to think different.  

I was going in for the first angiogram on my 2nd day and the doctor told me only about 50% of people who experience what I experienced make it to the hospital. He then said only 50% of those that make it to the hospital live to tell about it. 

They went in that day and found I had an aneurysm and 2 questionable spots, but the bleeding had stopped.  They wanted to wait a week to allow the blood to dry up so they could get a better look at things.  

I was told the expectation for that week was to have a boring week.  We made the best of it and made friends with all the staff.  Everyday I got better.  

Almost every day I received an ultrasound of my head to check for basil spasms.  They all came back clear.   

I went in for the 2nd angiogram on day 9.  The results were drastically different.  All the blood had dried.  There was no sign of an aneurysm   There were no questionable spots.  

I was discharged on day 10 with no medications other than pain/ nausea meds, which I never needed.  

Today I’m a miracle who continues to be content in her Salvation and thankful for a Savior who walked with me through the valley of the shadow of death .  

If you don’t know Jesus, I pray you find a relationship with Him.  No matter what you walk through you can be so content you’re thankful as long as you accept Him in your heart. 

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭23‬:‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

‭‭I Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬