It took me a long time to be brave enough to share this. One day God spoke to me and then kept proving to me he hears me….
I’ve wanted to share this for so long but it felt personal and so long that I didn’t think anyone would read it or even listen to me. I’ve only told 4 people about my encounter with God and now I want to share it here.
I’m going to break this into parts because when I told one of my friend’s it took 30 mins because there was so much detail.
On June 18th, I was sitting on my couch alone so I started to pray. I felt like I was praying over the same things I always prayed about. I was becoming more passionate about certain things and flat out told God “Ok! If you hear me then please let Terry stop doing the snow storm in the show”
Now to back up… what is the snow storm? What am I talking about? Well, we co owned a magic show and Terry, the magician has been doing this trick in the show where he makes it "snow" and it started at Christmas LAST year and he never took it out of the show. Guess who always cleans it up? ME! Now I do get help sometimes but overall it is me and it’s summer time at this point. Why is he still doing this trick?
So I remember praying that prayer and knew that was dumb! Of course God wants me to know he hears me and I was getting my way. So it was a win/ win for me!
Anyways, that day, I go out and mow. As I am mowing, Ryan, my husband calls me and says he’s going to Urgent Care because his side hurts bad. I remember not panicking and just going back to mowing. He calls again and tells me he’s in so much pain so I go to take a shower and again, I’m still feeling calm. Terry ( The magician we do the show with) ends up going to meet him at Urgent Care and is keeping me updated and then he texts me and says
“They are taking him by ambulance to the ER” Again, I feel very calm and Kristyn is starting to ask questions and is actually thinking the worst.
So, as I am driving there, I post on Facebook asking for prayers and my Facebook friends must have prayed because we show up and God just worked EVERYTHING out! The kids got taken care of without me even thinking about it. A friend met me at the hospital and put my kids in her car and took them to church (right down the road) then they went home with a friend afterwards. We had another friend show up and was already in the waiting room before I even got there. He got us food and was there. One of our pastors showed up in the parking lot and prayed with me and was there the whole time.
There was one time when they wouldn’t let me back there and I know I could have felt overwhelmed and upset, but I can just look back and remember this peace that was on me and wondering why I wasn’t panicking
Anyways, as we are there. Terry mentions finding by this certain paper towel in the bathroom and says to Ryan, “The only good thing out of this is finding these”. (It is just a paper towel that shreds well for the snow storm trick)….my heart sank…
I knew my prayer was dumb so I forgot about it.
On Thursday, the next day, Ryan was in a lot of pain from his kidney stone and I hated to see him like he was but I did come across this TikTok with a guy saying “you can have conversations with God through writing” I remember thinking “that’s cool” saved the video then just moved on with my scrolling
Thursday. I was sitting and the thought came to me “You should try that writing conversation with God, the one you saw on TikTok” so I watched it again and thought that would be cool.
I wrote out my question then tried my best to sit in silence and clear my mind of my thoughts and would just write what I heard… the first few answers to my questions but couldn’t be certain that it was me or if that was actually God. Then I asked “How long will Ryan have his Kidney stone?” I then heard
“I will diminish the stone in 3 days”
My first thought was “I don’t use the word Diminish EVER! I didn’t tell anyone and just was going to wait…
Well… Friday just 2 days after Ryan went to the ER. We go to Bristol to see his mom and as we are driving home, he has a bad episode of his kidney stone moving and he is in so much pain. Our friends from church called and said they wanted to come to the show. We were excited for them to come and they had all the kids come as well, so you know how kids make messes? They made a mess with their popcorn and after the show, My friend, Heather asked for a broom to clean it up. I told her "I don’t care to clean it up, I have to clean up the snow storm on stage as well."
I remember her giving me a weird look and then I go to clean and realized the snow storm was all cleaned up. I asked the assistant “who cleaned up the snow storm?” She said “Terry skipped it tonight” My heart dropped! “What? He skipped it?” He has never done that. I didn’t even notice until after the show.
Well to make a long story about the snow storm. He ended up “skipping the snow storm” 4x until he finally just said “I am going to take that out.
When he skipped the snow storm, I finally told Ryan about my prayer and what God told me about his Kidney stone. I said the 3rd day would be Sunday and wouldn’t you know after Sunday, he didn’t have anymore pain. We didn’t know if he passed it! We didn’t know what to tell people when they asked because honestly God did diminish the stone!
I know that was a long story, but it actually doesn't end there. Part 2 coming tomorrow
XOXO
