I had my picture perfect life.
Twenty years in big brand marketing to owning my own firm and onward to tremendous success in luxury real estate with the fruits of my labor lined up in perfection. We had just bought our dream home, and our kids were rock stars, (literally). My daughter had started a band and landed a vocalist position with one of the top megachurches in the country. My son was a top recruit quarterback just featured on ESPN & showcased in a HBO documentary, “Rising Stars”. My husband was thriving as a project manager for a top development firm in Texas and our schedules were packed with joyous itineraries. He coached a traveling select 7 on 7 team and I was president of the Booster Club, on the Education Foundation and even found time to create and launch a Friday Night sports talk show & streaming platform called TexanLive, (now owned by Dave Campbell) .
Then it happened. On March 24, 2016 my husband collapsed on the sofa while watching the Texans football game with my father-in-law. One moment we were all there.
And in the next moment, life was changed,.. forever.
“There are victors and victims in these halls,” The nurse named Jerry Brooks spoke to me in the TIRR rehabilitation center, 6 weeks after clinging to hope in an ICU Room marked by 79 on the placard outside. White coats came often and with no good news. As the surgical team rushed to take him into the 2nd life saving procedure in a 24-hour period to remove part of his skull and part of his brain, I was told his chance of survival was less than 5%. They called for the priest, told me to say my goodbyes. I argued, “No!” Then I blacked out on the cold floor of ICU room #79. Out of body or in the body, I don’t know – as I was standing witness to a scene that existed outside of time – like watching a movie.
I saw a Script in the Sky.
The vision I received of my children’s father walking around a truck to hug my son was a scene that shifted something inside of me that I couldn’t understand. It was a gift; a spiritual gift that would thereafter begin reshaping my understanding of life and purpose here on earth. And that vision came true (exactly as it was pictured, 4 years later).
Survival laced with miracles I can not unsee or deny as strange occurrences unfolded over days, weeks and months to follow. But the placard #79 spoke of a much greater story that was being written in the background. It was my rebirth into a season of remembering my own near death experience from decades back, where as a teenager I saw the Book of Life in a realm I could never find the words to utter. It was the beginning of remembering that the most terrible times in life are linked to the most magnificent unfoldings – which I cling to still today (waiting)…
I saw the world’s top nuero-scientists made small, science made obsolete and logic turned to fables in an upside down world where God uses the foolish things to confound the wise. I saw faith rise up with power and prayer transformed into a portal where the soul connects to a greater wisdom incomprehendable to the limited confounds of the human mind. I saw chains of slavery in prejudicees, religions, bloodlines and separations that divide us broken into a beautiful mess of love’s limitless victory. I saw hope. I saw forgiveness. I saw the interconnectedness of all people here on the planet unleashed from a system that causes us to forget the principle purpose of why we exist. I saw the world from a new set of lenses. And within that space there is nothing other than hope and faith and love; where the tongue only speaks life upon another.
Today, I don’t thrive to be the powerful businesswoman with many accolades, or the perfect person. My lust for this life has been turned upside down. I share my story with you in vulnerability; the Script in the Sky, as my faith is all that I have left & perhaps that too is purposed.
I came to California believing that God had put me on assignment to pitch HIS story that I documented for a film where it might bring hope and transformation to many hearts. However, I’ve not yet found people who have interest in investing time in a faith based true story. So, the Script in the Sky lives only in my heart right now – guiding me to pray for everyone I meet if they welcome me to do so. I’ve seen miracles in praying for others – (instant miracles) and this keeps me getting up each morning to face another day. Thank you for the taking the time to read my words and please reach out if you feel compelled to do so. Share a story with me, just say “hello” or connect with me and let’s pray together. Who knows – maybe you’re part of the Script in the Sky destined to meet me here today.
