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Do we believe God is in the hard?
In 7th grade, Jake didn’t make the basketball team. He spent the whole next year taking private basketball lessons and practicing (when he wasn’t playing football) in order to get better. During tryouts the following year, he started to have pain in his hip. We took him to the chiropractor and the chiropractor worked on it thinking he was just tight. Jake pushed through the injury and made the team due to his hard work the year prior. Four weeks into the basketball season, he couldn’t handle the pain any longer and the chiropractor decided he needed an MRI to see if it was a labrum tear.
After the MRI, the chiropractor called me to tell me it was worse than he thought and that Jake had a Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE). His femur was slipping out of his hip socket and he needed to have a screw put in. They told us to immediately pick him up from school and take him to the emergency room for surgery. This was in addition to finding that he had a growth hormone deficiency and was going to have to start taking daily shots.
It was a lot for an 8th grader.
I felt so bad for him. He had worked so hard to be on the team and now was going to have to work even harder to recover from the surgery. He did recover and by the time he was in 10th grade, he secured his position as the starting center for the varsity football team. Knowing it was possible for the other hip to slip as well, the doctor kept an eye on it and Jake knew that if he had any pain, that he was to tell us immediately. SCFE is a serious injury and can cut off the blood flow.
After spending the week before school started at football camp, he reluctantly told me he was having pain again. We immediately got in to see the doctor, who thought it was fine but scheduled an MRI just to be certain. The MRI showed another slip and it was back to surgery for Jake--just 4 days before school started and his first varsity season.
He had worked so hard to get to this point and I’ll never forget him turning to me and asking WHY this was happening to him. He said, “Mom, I’ve waited so long to play under those Friday Night Lights and it’s not going to happen for me!”
Within a few hours, he had bounced back with a positive outlook, knowing that God was going to use this. I, on the other hand, wanted to throw a temper tantrum like a two year old. This wasn’t fair! He’d been through ENOUGH!
Jake used that time to be an encourager on the sidelines and I was never more proud of him than watching him take something so hard and turning it into something really beautiful. He worked hard at his rehab and within 6 weeks, he was back at his starting position as center, stronger than ever.
I remember walking into a Locker Room Prayer Moms (held in the locker each Friday morning at school where we pray for the boys) and this song was playing: “Take Courage”
Part of the lyrics say:
Find strength in joy
Let His Words lead you on
Do not forget His great faithfulness He'll finish all He's begun
So take courage my heart
Stay steadfast my soul
He's in the waiting
Hold onto your hope
As your triumph unfolds
He's never failing
HE’S IN THE WAITING.
I’d never heard it explained like that, that God is in the waiting. Wow!
I was a blubbering mess! YES! Take COURAGE. He’ll Finish all that He’s begun. He’s in the waiting. He’s never failing.
I sent the song to Jake immediately after I heard it. I'm not sure if he ever listened to it but it spoke so much to me that day and calmed my heart.
Waiting is never easy, especially for moms. I’m all about trying to control the situation. Anyone else feel the same?
As I looked at the Psalms I kept seeing how David was patiently waiting on the Lord and then I saw this verse:
“How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?” Psalm 119:84
I think David also understood that the waiting is HARD.
But it is in the waiting that our kids learn more than they would if they didn’t have that opportunity. The waiting for my boys when they didn’t get to play because they were being picked over someone else or the waiting because they were injured, built character and faith that I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Watching Jake WAIT on the sidelines was SO HARD. It broke my heart. But then I’d see him pat his teammate on the back and give an encouraging word. I saw first hand how God certainly is in the waiting.
He’s in the quiet.
He’s in the disappointment.
He’s in the defeat.
He’s in the pain.
As the song says,
Hold onto your hope
As your triumph unfolds He's NEVER failing.
...So, we wait for that TRIUMPH to unfold in our childrens’ lives!
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