Scars cover his body from unsuccessful
surgeries. But two scars in particular
take this mom to my knees. He showed me
during his last hospital stay. One on
his hand and one on his shoulder. With
his timid smile he told me it was from biting.
His mom further explained that his pain is so intense that he bites
himself to endure it until it passes.
Today, about 20 people gathered around this little
boy with the courage of a lion. Even
facing the biggest surgery of his life, his smile brightened the room and the
spirits of everyone around him. He has a
way of doing that. Of capturing your
heart with his smile. Of breaking your
heart with the suffering he’s endured in his short nine years of life.
We prayed for Wilson’s healing. We prayed for peace for his faithful mom,
Tatiana, who has been a warrior for her son.
Who was so willing to put her 9-year-old son on a plane and send him to
a foreign land with a foreign language to live with a family she did not know
in the care of doctors to save his life.
By the grace of God, she was able to come with him, however, she
painfully left two children behind with her mother. Hope in the face of despair. Determination in the face of suffering.
Today, at 8:00am two surgeons will begin restoring
his broken body. In a scheduled six hour
surgery they will be repairing Wilson's urethra and the fistula using tissue
from the inside of his mouth. In addition, they will be reconstructing the
anus, rectum and the colon. It’s a huge
feat for such a little boy. Over the
weekend he began asking his mother difficult questions about his
mortality.
After several people prayed today and the pastor
began thanking everyone for coming, my 6-year-old Sophi
spoke up and said she wanted to pray.
She put her little hand on her friend Wilson and asked the same God that
restored her 2 pound body that had holes in her heart, spots on her brain from
a brain bleed, multiple blood transfusions, a bad staph infection, and 61 days
in the NICU where she teetered back and forth between life and death. She spoke boldly to the God who held her when
I couldn’t and asked Him to heal Wilson too.
She prayed that he wouldn’t be scared.
She prayed that he would be wisdom, peace and light in the world. And with that, our little miracle said
amen.
Today, we pray for another miracle for Wilson with
the same boldness that Sophi prayed.
Please join us.
