Welcome to a place where you can find new breath and beauty, where you can come so alive. But what exactly does that mean?
That Thursday in October was the worst day of my life. It was the day I heard, “Cody has epilepsy.” That day then ushered in the worst years of my life.
A few months later, January 1st started with me shell-shocked, depressed, and begging God to help me find joy in the sorrow. Over the course of many years, He breathed life back into me. I have had a slow recovery back to myself, but, really, it’s been a recovery to more than I was.
This blog is not about epilepsy but about survival, because sometimes that’s all you can do in the middle of the storm. It’s about the books, the music, and the Bible verses that helped me survive, one day, then the next. It’s about my struggles and wrestlings with God – and I’ve had many wrestling matches with God over the years. More than that though, this story is about coming back to life, but to a life even more beautiful than the one that crumbled. It’s about coming so alive!
And the perfect plan to try to bring me down
Has been put to shame, it’s been turned around
As I come so alive that death is afraid of me
JASON GRAY, LYRICS TO “I WILL RISE AGAIN” ON WHERE THE LIGHT GETS IN