Hit by a car at 6, what I remember

Tonight I went to pray for my grand daughter in the hospital and memories came back to me of the time I was hit by a car. I know I was only 6 and so my memory my not be the same as everyone else who was there at the time, but this is what I remember.

First a little background:
My dad was an associate pastor of the 
Philadelphia Evangelistic Center, who's pastor was 
Dr. Thea Jones.

Philadelphia Evangelistic Center

One day as I was playing on a side street my little dog named Bear ran into the road and it was said that I ran after him (I never saw that dog again because my grandmother gave him to the milkman. I don't remember the accident). It was said the man came down the street the wrong way on one way street and I did not see him and he did not see me and so he ran me over with his car.

The man who hit me found my mother and she jumped in the car, and with me laying on her lap they rushed me to the Philadelphia Children Hospital. I was examined and they  found that I had an injured shoulder, crushed knee and a six inch fracture of the skull. The doctor told my parents that I had pressure on the brain and thy needed to drill a hole in my head to release it. They also said my knee would heal but the bones would fuse together and I would never be able to bend it again.

What I remember:

• I remember waking up and my mother was feeding me Jell-o. I am fond of Jello to this day and can not eat it without remembering my mother feeding me Jell-o on that day.
• I remember being cold and to this day I hate the cold.
• I remember being in a ward with a lot of other sick children.

• I remember waking up with a cast on my leg and wondering what happened.
• I remember the Evangelist Gene Ewing coming and praying for me and also giving me a stuffed horse. I have always wondered why a horse?
• I remember the  little boy in the next bed eating his dinner and then falling in his plate face first. I called out for help. Later I found out that he had died because he had a hole in his heart. I did not understand, as a child when an adult said he was with Jesus I just accepted that he was okay.
• I remember being alone, I do not know if it was because it was not a private room, or why, but my parents did not stay with me in the night, but I was so happy to see them in the morning.
• I remember the fuss that was made over me when I was leaving in 11 days.

You see my dad was strong on the Faith message and he did not trust the arm of the flesh, so he would not let them do much to me. He would not let them tap my spine. He would not let them drill a hole in my head. The lead Doctor told my dad your son will die. My dad said, well if God takes him that is alright, but I will not let you kill him.  That made all the doctors but one very mad. He agreed to watch my vital signs which was all my dad would allow and every day my dad wanted to take me home. They agreed to let me leave on the eleventh day. If my dad would bring me back for an examination to clear me in six weeks. When we came back they had a lot of doctors there including the insurance doctors. They put me on a brain scan machine and did that three times and told my dad the machine must be broken because they could find no evidence of any damage to my brain. They examined my leg and wanted to know if I was the same boy. My parents asked why and they said the x-rays before and after showed no damage to my leg. 

I was healed by the power of Jesus Christ as a child and I have never had any problems  Yeah, after hearing this story my friends always say, now we know what is wrong with Terry, Haha. In the sixth grade, I competed in a track met in Joneboro, Georgia and was the 4th fastest boy in the county. By the way, I am bending my knee right now. Thank you Jesus for healing me. 

People are shaped by their memories and experiences, so tonight I pray that God will bless you with good memories and great experiences.

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Your turn below please share with me what you remember about something that happened to you when you were a child.

My Valentine Rose

The other night I watched a movie set in the time of the middle ages. I was disgusted and upset before the movie was over. Why, because of how the men treated or shall I say mistreat their wives. They were no more than slave, sex toys, or worse. One nun in the movie said there are three women these days, a nun, a wife, a whore, only the nun is truly free. When I started working with other men, it became clear real fast that most men have a problem with authority. Most men do not want anyone to tell them what to do, yet those same men want to order their wives around as if they were their property. This is not biblical and I challenge any Godly man to prove me wrong.

  “Husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way.”

This scripture is telling us men that if we want our home to be place of Blessing and Godliness, we must Honer our wives the way God has commanded us to. Once when I was overbearing to my wife the father spoke to my heart and said to me, I don't like the way you are treating my daughter. Wow what an eye opener, my wife is God's daughter. If you do not have this problem I say praise God, and your wife is blessed. Yet there are still some men who need to learn to Lay down their live, their wants, their hobbies, yes and even themselves for their wife and family. if they do no they will never be the man God wants them to be and their wife and children will not have the husband and daddy that God planned for them.

As Robert Lewis says the "

1. "The Top-Down Traditional Marriage" is not biblical.
2. "The Fifty-Fifty Identical Marriage" is not biblical.
3. "The “Side-by-Side Biblical Marriage.” is the only one that is Biblical. 

In this marriage the husband is the Servant-Leader.

“He Himself being the Savior of the body.  Husbands, love your

wives just as Christ also loved the church.”

Which means a cross in your life.  The next line speaks of death, because Jesus died for the church.

“For this cause…(for this cause)…being the savior of your wife.”

The leadership style, though, is a leadership style that speaks to responsibility and sacrifice, because that’s what it means. The goal in mind is oneness.  That is, that we might find a mutual equality and intimacy as I initiate this kind of leadership in our home.  As I live for my wife, as I provide for her, as I take it onto myself to protect her in such a way that, not only can she work, if she wants to work, but she will have the freedom not to work, because of me.  She can invest in our kids, and explore new worlds.  As her “head”, I want to make that environment hers, as the responsible head who’s laying down his life for his wife.   That’s my role.  The goal in mind is to be one and it’s an awesome climb.

The effects on the marriage should be that it’s healthy; that it’s happy and that there’s harmony.  No woman in this marriage should say, ‘I feel oppressed.’  No woman in this marriage should say, ‘I don’t feel valued.’  No woman in this marriage should say, ‘I don’t feel like an equal.’  In fact, every woman in this kind of marriage should say, ‘I’m free to be me. And  it’s because my husband works so hard to make that true.’

Jesus blended leadership, and the business world is just now figuring it out.  Two thousand years ago He said, “you want to know what the best leadership style is?  It’s what I give to men in a marriage.  They’re not to be boss, and they’re not to be a wimp.  They’re to be a blend called ‘servant-leader.’”  That’s what head means: servant-leader.  And in a marriage, if you become too much leader, your wife’s going to feel oppressed.  If you become too much servant, then you’re going to be standing around, waiting for her to tell you what to do and you’ll frustrate the heck out of her. " Lesson 19

I thank God for Robert Lewis because he was used of God to help me see that my responsibly to my wife is more than I ever thought, and greater than I would have ever done. Without the revelation of this truth in God's word, I might still be the overbearing husband that I used to be. It is my prayer that you men will be set free to be who God has called you to be, the servant-leader of your family and that you would put into practice what the words say.

“And grant her honor as a fellow heir – (as an equal) – in the grace of life.

Otherwise, your prayers are going to be hindered.”

Here’s another rendition of it in the way the Living Bible;

“You husbands must be careful of your wives, being thoughtful of their needs

and honoring them.  Remember that you and your wife are partners in receiving

God’s blessing, and if you don’t treat her as you should, (there’s not only going

to be just horizontal problems – there’s going to be vertical problems.)  You’re

going to be cut off from the very power and life of God to you. 

Remember the power of God to be the man you are meant to be depends in part on how you relate to the woman who is your Wife, God's Daughter, your Rose, your Ruby.

My Rose!

“An excellent wife, who can find?  

Her worth is far above jewels.