Miracle Before Eyes

Hello Family-

I can't help but Glorify My ADONAI! , my ADONAI!
I just can't help but sing that song today by TobyMac. You got me feelin so fly! Yep, that is me these days. I fly about my Adonai!

I have decided that I would post about my brother and his accident, not b/c of my perspective of it all but b/c when I derived at this blog I wanted it to be an expression of me to my kids. Something that even our kids that live on their own could get ahold of- they can still hear me so to speak even if they don't live here.

My brother was in an awful accident on Thursday Oct. 14th, 2010. That day happened to be mine and Allan's errand day and so we started our day off early driving to St. Joe to grocery shop and run errands. We arrived back home and then ate lunch and then drove over to Maryville w/ Nate and Vallan to get them some needed clothing. We had a great time and everything seemed peaceful. Allan even got a new job b/c I wore the Allan Jensen Ceramic t-shirt and a woman in the check line asked if he did floors and soon he had a new job. Hallelujah Jesus! love when that happens.

So, after shopping we went for ice cream then headed home. We turned in our driveway when Nate said mom i hear your phone. Sure enough, my phone beeped and I had a message. I am really, really, really Thanking the Lord that I got the message then and NOT when we were in Maryville.

My sister called to tell me there was an accident please call her back. So i did. My brother had an accident on the tractor and so then my mom got on to tell me the rest of the story.

My brother, Chris was takin hay to his horses and since the clutch in his truck went out he couldn't use it that day and needed to use the tractor. Mom said he was going to go by himself that day and she thought about it and told him she would go with him. THANK GOD!

So he was loading a bale of hay on the forks on the front of his tractor and once he got through the gates needed to turn so he turned the tires and started to turn- he had the forks raised b/c he had a bale on the front. Just as he turned a front tire blew out and it threw him forward, he grabbed the wheel quickly and tried to bale out from the tractor just as he did his jeans got caught on something- he doesn't know what his jeans caught on exactly but it held his body there as the tractor flipped completely over.

Mom saw this and ran to him trying to see him. When she did she saw the tractor on top of him and the bar of the tractor was across his mid-section starting at his right hip and clear across his abdomen up to his left rib case it was smashing him.

He was trying to hold the tractor off him as best he could and he said he only had enough breathe in him to tell her to go away cause he didn't want her to see what was going to happen to him. he said he knew he was not going to make it. He said " God help me " and then used a finger to point to mom go over there.

She said he began to turn purple and then she yelled, " Lord what am I suppose to do? " Just then she heard the name Tim. She got in her car and drove across town where she Tim was working in his field, he was using his bobcat and so she asked him if he could bring the bobcat and help rescue her son.

He got another guy to go with him and he came to my brother w/his bobcat and began a rescue.

My mom said that she got down in my brothers face and was calling him by name and there was no response.

He was the ugliest color of purple she had ever seen. he was unresponsive and not breathing and said that tractor looked like it had cut him in half.

It was pressing down on his abdomen so much it made him literally flat.

Mom said all of a sudden the towns people of Gravity, Iowa just started appearing and began to help in the rescue attempts. Mom called 911 when she went to get help, and they still weren't there yet.

So the towns people worked together and used that bobcat to lift the tractor off my brother and by the Grace and Mercy of God they lifted it off slowly, little by little until some of the dark started to leave my brothers complexion.

Mom then got down in his face and started to slap him and call out his name. Tim then called everyone to gather round and pray so they did.

Mom said it was the most beautiful sight she had ever seen- the town of Gravity all linked hands, linked hearts and prayed for the giver of life to Give. HE DID!

Mom said his eyes started to move and then he opened them and the praises started. The towns people all began to shout and just marvel at God's Almighty at work right before their eyes.

Soon the ambulance got there and took over the rescue and life-flight was called. They had a hard time that day with the winds so they ended up taking him to Des Moines, Iowa instead of Omaha. It ended up taking around 2 hrs. from the time the accident happened to when he did get put on the helicopter to Des Moines.

This is the time when I spoke w/Mom on the phone- they were waiting for the life-flight to get there. He was in the ambulance and they had him stable.

After getting off the phone w/mom I called all my kids to tell them and we began making plans to head to the hospital.

We were able to get everything lined up and began our drive towards Bethany. After getting on I-35 we got a call from my sister who said the hospital called to tell her that the CAT Scan showed NO broken bones, No internal bleeding, everything cleared and they would keep him for observation. What a miracle-working God we serve. I tell you what a miracle!

We arrived at the hospital after driving 2.5 hrs. I didn't think we would ever get there, you know that feeling? We found his room and I went in- they were just getting him moved in there from ER and so they asked me to wait about 10 mins. they would be done and I could visit him. I went ahead and walked in the room just to take a look at him- I was expecting the worse (like I would know what that would look like, right?)

I told him I would be back so off to find Mom and Dad. They were in the waiting room on the trauma floor and so we joined them. Before long they gave us permission to go visit him. So
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The first thing my brother said to me was, " Sis, who breathed in me? " I said, " no one did, Chris! " I said, " no one gave you CPR. " He said, " Yes, someone breathed in me, I remember." I said, " You know WHO breathed in you. " He said, " then if Tim didn't, mom didn't then that only leaves God! " I said, " YES! it does" Hallelujah Jesus!

He had quite alot of bruising on his legs, stomach, hips, across his back and on his head. Nothing broken, nothing out of place, nothing. He did have ALOT of pain so the staff began giving him pain meds. He talked, shared what he remembered and was speechless about ALL that the Lord hath done. He looked pretty swollen to me like in the head, eyes and neck area. He also looked swollen in the stomach. He also had alot of darkness around his eyes, up on his forehead. Looked like he might have black eyes appear in a day or so. Probably b/c he was without oxygen for several minutes. After visiting a hour or so with him drifting in and out of sleep. Some friends ( Josh ( toad), Josh Blake and his wife Jessica) from home came up to see him and they were down right shocked that he looked so G-O-O-D! it is just so awesome.

We were there until around 1ish. We decided to just go on home, Chris was getting his pain under control and he would need to rest so we headed for home.