Let me introduce you to my new friend Mike. Mike is a gentleman who God used to touch my heart last night. Mike is in his late 20's...maybe early 30's and is currently staying at Valley View, which is where my dad is staying right now. Mike got in a very bad car accident and suffered a TBI. He cannot walk, talk, eat, function anywhere like he used to. But you wanna know what? Mike still smiles. Let me paint you a picture....We were all sitting in the dining room having ice cream. Mike dropped some in his lap. He looked at me and smiled with the happiest eyes. Mike still smiles. I got up to get him a wet washcloth to help him clean up the mess. And Mike still smiled. Mike, a once independent carefree young man, is now bound to the wheelchair and unable to truly communicate with others. But Mike still smiles. Mike can still smile and joke around as my mom told him he needed to get another team because the Giants are doing terrible this year. He agreed that maybe he should get a Bills shirt.
If God can make a once able bodied man smile while ice cream melting in his lap, then he can make me smile in the midst of some tough circumstances at school.
I thank God for meeting Mike last night and for speaking to my heart. He helped me to realize that I have all the power I need to smile when I turn to Him.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
