So at random times thoughts pop into my head about things I might not have discussed on my blog yet. I was thinking the other day and I remembered that I hadn't covered trauma during my pregnancy. They say that they think ABS is caused from trauma during pregnancy. I had two instances of what might be considered trauma, but at the time I didn't think much about it.
The first one happened when I was just barely pregnant, like maybe 8 weeks or something. It was before I started getting sick and that was pretty far into my 1st trimester. My Husband and I had asked to babysit my niece for a bit and take her out to ride her bike. I don't have a bike so my niece road her bike (she was 4 yrs old at the time and still had training wheels on) and my Husband rode his bike and Amber's brillant idea was to rollerblade. I like rollerblading (my Husband and I used to cover some serious miles when we were dating and we had a lot of fun and it was a good workout). Anyway so I am rollerblading and my niece decided that she wanted to hold my hand and ride her bike next to me. So I reached over, grabbed her hand and soon after that she steered her bike into the side of me and I hit the pavement. I landed kind of like flat on my back. It was a hard enough hit that it ripped my brand new ski jacket that is made out of pretty tough material in the elbow. I was fine but my Husband was pretty upset and I'm not sure why I was not smarter to begin with - I guess I thought it wasn't a huge deal I was pregnant and I would be fine rollerblading - I had never fallen before. I didn't have any problems like bleeding or anything afterward so I just forgot about it.
The second occurance was when I was about 5 or 6 months pregnant and where we used to live we had some younger neighbors who we were friends with and I was outside talking to the neighbor guy and his dog who was a mastiff puppy (but was giant) was outside running around chasing our dogs. Well this puppy was just that, a puppy that was clumsy and didn't watch where he was going and he was pretty wild when he played with our dogs - he just didn't realize how big he was. So he was running after our dogs and I was talking to the neighbor guy and my dog ran past me and the Mastiff was running after her and ran right into my legs. My legs came out from underneath me and somehow I was able to get my feet back under me so that I did not hit the ground. The hit hurt though, because I'm not that big and this dog is giant and was running full speed when he hit me. My toe got cut up and was bleeding pretty good from the dog's nails so I went inside and put a bandaid on it and laid down on the couch. My stomach did hurt after this and for what I remember to be a couple hours. Not horrible or anything, but kind of felt like cramping. I cried a little because I was worried that I was going to like go into labor or something and told my Husband that if I did that she probably wouldn't make it because her lungs wouldn't have been fully developed by that point. LOL, oh the joys or being prego and emotional.
So there ya have it. That was the only "trauma" I experienced during my pregnancy if it can even be classified as such. Definately not like some of the other parents of children with ABS that I have talked to who have been in car accidents when they were pregnant, and that kind of thing.
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Nick Vujicic, a man born without arms or legs, speaks to Greg Laurie about how he can still be joyful in Christ despite his physical state, at the Seattle Harvest event on Sunday, November 7, 2010, in Seattle, Washington.
(Photo: Harvest)
Some 15,000 people attended the Seattle Harvest event at the Key Arena on Sunday, November 7, 2010,in Seattle,Washington, o.
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“He healed the physical body of the blind man (in John 9). But what I said to God is, ‘I don’t know what your plan is, but I trust you. I need you not just for arms and legs, [but] I need peace. I need forgiveness. I need purpose,” said Vujicic, president of the non-profit Life Without Limbs, to Greg Laurie at the Seattle Harvest event.
Vujicic, who was born with no arms or legs, shared his inspiring story to a crowd of 15,000 at the Key Arena in Seattle on Sunday. More than 93,000 people watched the event online and 1,692 accepted the invitation at the end of the night to commit their lives to Jesus.
Over the three days of Seattle Harvest 2010, 39,000 people attended in person, 162,717 watched the webcast, and 4,225 made decisions for Christ.
The Australian born motivational speaker, who has inspired thousands of people worldwide, shared that when God does not grant a person the miracle they prayed for (Vujicic had prayed for his arms and legs to miraculously grow), God can perform another kind of miracle.
“God can still use you to be a miracle for someone else to bring them to the truth and knowledge of Jesus Christ,” he said.
Earlier in the evening, Greg Laurie, lead pastor behind the Harvest Crusades and senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., addressed the question of why there is suffering in the world. He said humans, in the broad sense, are responsible for the problems we face in the world today. The illnesses, disabilities, and death are all a result of sin, he said.
“The general tendency is to place all the blame for all of the problems and suffering of humanity on the shoulders of God,” said Laurie, who went on to state that everyone is born a sinner. “God gave us the ability to choose and our first parents, Adam and Eve, made the wrong choice in the Garden of Eden,” he said.
Vujicic, who has learned to overcome bitterness over his physical condition, left the crowd with a message on how to be happy. Some people say they are not going to be happy until they get married, have a job, save up money, or have more friends, said the author of the new book Life Without Limits.
But having those things will not necessarily make you happy, he said.
“It’s not about the outside. It is about being complete on the inside,” said Vujicic. “Because I have seen so many people complete on the outside but who don’t know the truth. It is the truth that sets you free and who the son sets free is free indeed.”
The Seattle event was the last Harvest crusade scheduled this year. The next Harvest event will be in Auckland, New Zealand, in June 2011.
