As I woke
up the first morning after arriving home from India, my first thought was; what
will the doctor tell me today about the result of the CT scan? I let my dear
husband have my mobile-phone so he could hear the news first. Before I heard
from the doctor we had a phone call from India. Brother Rao told us that they
had been praying for Mother (I am called Mother by him and all the people at
his place), and she does not need any surgery, but only to take rest. I was
comforted by this kind greeting.

Not long
after this my doctor called. He said that since I was created in such a way
that the spinal cord had plenty of room I could take a compression fracture in
my back with little danger of harming any nerves. The fracture in my lumbar
vertebra was clean and stable so I did not need surgery, but rest and use of
belt and frame all the time for six weeks. After six weeks I was to come to the
hospital for examination.

I was so
grateful to God and moved to tears by what I heard. My thoughts went to Psalm
139, and I had to read it again that morning:

“Thank you for making me so wonderfully
complex. Your workmanship is so marvellous – and how well I know it. You
watched me as I was being formed in seclusion as I was woven together in the
dark womb.”

God had his
plans for my future long before I was born. He created me in his special way
because he knew what things and events would happen to me in my future life. He
knew I needed a strong back with plenty of protective space for my spinal cord
for the travels in India with those rough and bumpy roads, and he knew about
this accident.

As I am laying
here on my bed, my eyes are filled with tears, and my heart is filled gratefulness
and wonder. What a wonderful, awesome, great God I serve. He is worthy of
honour and praise. And I will bless him every day and I will praise him
forever!