{"id":633457,"date":"2022-05-31T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/collected\/?p=633457"},"modified":"2024-06-04T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:39:30","slug":"a-story-of-restoration-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsong.com\/collected\/da\/blog\/2022\/05\/a-story-of-restoration-19\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story of Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beklager, denne post er kun tilg\u00e6ngelig i English<\/a>.<\/p>

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\u201cChoking back tears and silently praying for strength, I went into my son\u2019s hospital room after that meeting and that\u2019s when I saw it. A sign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Gloria, Melbourne<\/p>\n

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We just thought he was sleeping in after having vomited the day before, but when we couldn\u2019t wake him, I knew something was very wrong. So, we carried him to the car, bundled our two other boys into the back seat, and drove to the GP. She took one look at our four-year-old and told us to go straight to emergency. It was like a scene from a movie. Hospital staff ran from all directions and wheeled Jacob into a small room where a team of people started working on him. His right lung had collapsed, and he had to be intubated.<\/p>\n

\u00a0An hour later, after a CT scan, the neurosurgeon took my husband and I aside. \u201cYour son has a clot in his brain,\u201d she said, handing us some paperwork to sign. \u201cHe needs emergency surgery.\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe this was happening. The day before, my outgoing little boy \u2013 the same little boy who forgets to say goodbye at the Kindy gate\u2014 had taken me by the hand and asked me to play with him. Now, we were being told we could lose him.<\/p>\n

Over the next nine hours while my son underwent surgery, we reached out to the church we\u2019d left in Hong Kong after immigrating to Australia. A prayer chain began. At 10pm that night, after weeping and praying in a private room, we got called into a meeting. I can\u2019t remember exactly who was there, but I do remember what they said: \u201cWe found some abnormal tissue in your son\u2019s brain. We\u2019ve removed it and sedated him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A few days later, we met with a team of specialists who told us they found an aggressive tumour the size of a mandarin in Jacob\u2019s head. They also said he might never be able to walk or talk properly due to nerve damage. Choking back tears and silently praying for strength, I went into my son\u2019s hospital room after that meeting and that\u2019s when I saw it. A sign. Jacob\u2019s right toe was wiggling. Doctors warned us Jacob might never be able to move his right side. This felt like God was sending us a message to have faith. Still, there was a way to go. When Jacob woke from his induced coma, he couldn\u2019t hold up his head. He was floppy all over. I had to brace him from behind. I was holding Jacob and God was holding me.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no history of cancer in our family, so I couldn\u2019t understand why my son had a brain tumour. But instead of focusing on the negative, I was thankful he was with us, and held on to hope. We did see improvements. Even though Jacob\u2019s body was weak, cognitively, he responded and recognised characters in his favourite show.<\/p>\n

In 2021, we began the first of six cycles of chemotherapy. That\u2019s when we received another message from God: Rainbows. Between each cycle we got to go home for 1 -2 days. Each time we drove back to the hospital, we would see a rainbow. On the fourth cycle, the admission was at night, so no rainbows. Then out of the blue, my husband\u2019s brother from Hong Kong, posted an image to the family chat: It was a rainbow. He is with us!<\/p>\n

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Throughout Jacob\u2019s treatment, we took daily communion, listened to sermons, and had prayer groups upholding us. In the car and in the hospital room, we played Hillsong\u2019s What a Beautiful Name.<\/em> The walls of Jacob\u2019s room were plastered with scriptures: Cast all your anxiety on Him for He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7) and we prayed Psalm 91.<\/p>\n

Then we stumbled across Hillsong Kids Online. Jacob watched from hospital and the other two boys from home. The team always prayed for us and gave regular shout outs. The kids loved it when they got a mention. Jacob would squeal \u201cThat\u2019s me!\u201d In the car, the kids often sang along to the Crazy Noise<\/em> song and broke out into fits of giggles. On Jacob\u2019s fifth birthday, the team from Hillsong sent Jacob a video from Funny Man Dan and a care package. We\u2019d done so much crying, but these lighter moments brought so much joy.<\/p>\n

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Hillsong Kids were like human angels and then my son told me he saw real angels. One time in the car, I asked Jacob \u201cHave you ever seen angels?\u201d He nodded. \u201cHave you seen angels at home or in hospital?\u201d I asked. \u201cIn hospital,\u201d he said. I pushed deeper. \u201cHow many of them where there?\u201d \u201c100 angels,\u201d he declared. Some days I\u2019d go into the hospital and find Jacob staring at the ceiling. Was that another sign\u00a0that guardian angels are watching over my son?<\/p>\n

Postscript: Jacob is now walking with the aid of a walking frame; he is back at Kindy and his last MRI was clear.<\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/cdn.hillsong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/05\/31044756\/Video-of-Jacob-walking.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

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Beklager, denne post er kun tilg\u00e6ngelig i English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Choking back tears and silently praying for strength, I went into my son\u2019s hospital room after that meeting and that\u2019s when I saw it. 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