on her face speaks volumes as it grows more vibrant with each
passing week. Her “thumbs up” in answer to questions, her
closed eyes when someone offers a prayer, suggest daily
progress.
With each new day, with each new obstacle to overcome,
the family gathers the next-step options and discusses them
with God. Then they wait for God to talk to them by giving
them confidence to move in a specific direction. They don’t
make a move until they sense His peace in their hearts and
minds. They keep listening for God to speak.
These parents understand that no amount of money,
education, or medicine can stop an unknown bacterium, restore
a battered heart and brain, or replay a twenty-four-hour period
and magically edit out the bad parts. Only God can do
something that impossible. Only God can carry them through
every valley and over every mountain. So they attentively
listen for God to give them His thoughts, His ideas, and His
encouraging words—especially when almost every other word
they hear is negative. They hold on to God’s words—written in
their Bible, emblazoned in their hearts, whispered in their
minds.
Dependent and desperate, the parents continuously and
courageously call out to God—waiting, expectant. They ask
Him to talk to them and to the doctors, to help their daughter,
to do the impossible. They are sustained by His powerful,
strong voice.
People who are hopeless want God to talk to them. They
want to hear the good news that is able to lift them out of the
overwhelming despair in which they are drowning.
Truly desperate people don’t ignore or underestimate the