Wreck My Life by Mo Isom

Author:Mo Isom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012070;BIO016000;REL012040;Consolation;Suffering—Religious aspects—Christianity
ISBN: 9781493404933
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

7

Revelation in the Wreckage

I’m not sure how long I hung unconscious in the wreckage of my Jeep before I finally came to. I could feel the seatbelt cutting into the skin on my neck as I realized I was hanging limp and heavy like a bruised ragdoll. Warm blood drained from my mouth and seeped into my nose, choking me and causing me to gag. With each cough, I could feel more blood boil up from deep in my chest and a hot iron taste roll up behind my teeth. Desperate for breath, I squirmed and writhed, trying to relieve the pressure on my lungs. But I was pinned, strung from my seatbelt and unable to wrap my head around the balance of a world turned upside down. Every move caused more pain, so at last I stopped and hung stationary, confused even further by the exhaustion that overwhelmed me.

There was nothing echoing through the rubble but silence—a deep, peaceful silence interrupted only by the coarse and rasping breaths wheezing from me. The air was still and calm but my mind was fogged and burning. I couldn’t see but I could feel. My head was pulsing and the back of my eyes were throbbing and my side was aching as I fought to breathe. I focused on what I could in my disoriented state, starting at my toes and moving each body part slowly and methodically. Ankles. Knees. Fingers. Wrists. One by one I moved each limb, blindly making sure I was all in one piece, taking a halfhearted inventory to discover the things that were hurting me. I was genuinely shocked when I realized nothing felt broken beyond repair—that my brain and my body were somehow still able to work in sync. A part of me expected to be paralyzed and I knew the intensity of the wreck should have had its way with my body. I should have been far worse off than it seemed I was. The power and force of the moments before could have so easily ended my life. For a moment I hung there in disbelief.

Wreckage. It suddenly and radically meant something new and different to me. In a moment of complete and total vulnerability—surrounded by twisted steel and fractured glass—I had never felt more at ease. In a moment that should have warranted raw, unbridled fear I felt completely at peace. A peace that met my rebellious heart and suddenly surpassed all understanding. There my body hung, with tangled and messy destruction surrounding me, sustained by something far greater than my own strength. In that moment, I was given a parallel vision of my past and my circumstances—my past just as tangled and messy as the destruction currently around me, yet my life sustained by Someone who had far greater plans and purpose for me.

That moment of perspective left my mind spinning and my heart pounding and my soul open to receive. One year prior I had been emotionally wrecked by the sudden loss of my dad.

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