“God Gives Mother’s Day Gifts, too!”
As long as I live, I will never forget Mother’s Day 1991. On this particular Sunday morning I had reached my wit’s end dealing with my eye disease, Keratoconus. I was diagnosed at 25 years of age with this disease that deteriorates the cornea. I was told in my elderly years I would have my share of eye problems. But ten years after diagnoses at age 35 those same doctors were getting ready to diagnose me as being legally blind. I was sent to an eye specialist as a transplant patient. Well, on Mother’s Day 1991, I cried out unto the Lord, that I just couldn’t take it any longer. If it was my fate to go blind then just don’t He leave me by myself. I had myself a full-blown pity party. There wasn’t anything that my husband and three children could do to comfort me. A few hours later, I wiped my tears and resolved that I would just have to learn how to live being visually challenged. My dear husband assured me that he would be with me whether I could see or not see. Then he announced that he was going to take us out to a Mother’s Day brunch since we didn’t go to church. Just as we were leaving the house the telephone rang. Our young daughter answered and said that it was my doctor. I hadn’t spoken with Dr. Wood in nine months. He was bursting with excitement as he began to tell me that eyes were being flown into Memphis, TN just for me. He had been searching nine months for a donor. My name had been listed in local and national eye banks. Rejoicing, he stated that I should come to the hospital immediately for eye surgery. The whole time he was calling me “Angel” I could only hear the voice within me whispering, “I love you and I will never leave you alone.” Although, Dr. Wood was calling me Angel, I knew it was God himself speaking through the voice on the telephone. Our God is truly amazing. Just when you think you can’t go on He picks you up and carries you. On that particular Mother’s Day, I needed a very special dose of love and my Heavenly Father gave me just what I needed.
“Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, for the Bible tells me so.” Not only does the Bible tells me so but some times God will tell you Himself. Peace & Blessings!
