The spiral notebook

One of my most prized possessions is a spiral notebook.  This is an important item to me because it’s a document that my parents used to record a season of illness I had when I was a baby.  For those of you that don’t know, for six months or so, I had what was labeled as “Infantile Spasms” or an infant that was having multiple seizures.  In the notebook, my parents made comments and observations as to how many seizures I was having, as well as recording all of the steps that they took to try to minimize the seizures.

In this notebook, it is recorded that on April 24th, 1982 I stopped having seizures.  In fact, this year is a special milestone because I haven’t had another seizure for thirty years now!  On that April day all those years ago, I was in the hospital (based on entries in the notebook this was not an uncommon occurrence).  For some reason that is still unexplained, I flat-lined; I’m told that I actually turned a shade of blue.  After flat-lining for over three minutes, God intervened.  The flat-lining stopped and my normal coloring began to return to me.  Life returned to me!  In short, if it weren’t for God’s miraculous intervention that day, I would not be alive today.  I wanted to publicly give all the thanks, praise, and glory to God.

Every subsequent April 24th, I’ve stopped to reflect on life.  This year, I’ve been thinking about what I want my life to be about for the remaining years God gives me.  Christian singer and songwriter Chris Tomlin wrote a statement in his book “The Way I Was Made” that perfectly describes my life’s goal.  He said, “We were created to shine the spotlight on God – to spread the fame of God everywhere we go.”  As far as I'm concerned, you can put that sentiment on my epitaph one day.

Kevin

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think…to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” - Ephesians 3:20-21