SPOILER ALERT: If you know me and love me, you know I have suffered from migraines for 7 years so reading this might rock your faith. Also, I know blogs are supposed to be short, but stick it out, it's worth it.
If you're reading this to find out secrets about TC, you won't find them here. Here you will find a story of a miracle that took place in my life at TC, a miracle that was disguised as a heart-breaking connundrum at first. If you know me, you know I am the type-A-est type-A there is. I like to control my situation and always know what is going on. (Okay, a little secret, you're not going to know what's going on at camp.) A couple blogs ago I posted about how I like to have control. God laughed at me for that. I lost all of my control while at camp when I was told that I would be leaving due to my chronic migraines. This ripped me to shreds. I was wrecked. I had invested 9 months in this race already through investing in my squad, fundraising, and preparing myself physically and mentally. Not only that, I have been wanting to go on the Race since I was in 10th grade. I FINALLY graduated college and that meant one thing for me, THE RACE!
Not anymore. God took my control away and said that I had to wait. Initially I was too upset for words. Saying goodbye to my squad was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Like I said, we had spent months investing in each other and now I had to leave them. Every single one of them hugged me and encouraged me, SOB FEST. I had no peace about the decision that was made and things coming to my mind were: "What am I supposed to do for 6 months", "What about grad school in August?", "Why do I have to leave my new family and best friends?".
U Squad, I know all I could really get out that day was "I just really love you," well that's still all I can get out. You changed my life forever and I'll always be a U Squader at heart.
HOWEVER, I know I was at training camp for a reason. A reason way better than preparing me for camping in torrential downpours or in peculiar sleeping situations or different foods. I experienced healing. I know, this is where you tune out because you're skeptical of healing. I was too. Until I had no other choice (which isn't how it should be…) Throughout the few days I was at camp, several people prayed for me and my pain but it wasn't until Monday that I fully had hope that I could be healed. It started in the morning when Michael, our squad trainer, laid his hands on my head and started praying. I was crying. I felt nothing. "This is not working." I tried my hardest to keep the faith. Once I started to worship again I was instantly surrounded by people who laid hands on me and began praying for me. I was shaking, my whole body. My mouth was chattering and I opened it up and, as I explained it to LaShon and Adam, things just started coming out! I was speaking in tongues. I knew the Holy Spirit was there. (More on that later) Later on Emily, Kyle, and Allison prayed specifically for my headaches to go away. My head started shaking and I could feel Kyle's arm shaking. I didn't know what was going on. They continued to pray for the causes of my headaches and the actual headaches. Time was up and my terrible headache had lessened but was still there.
Fast forward to the evening. I was LESS than excited about our sleeping arrangements, mostly because I knew little to no sleep would give me a migraine for the next day. After an incredible night FILLED with the Holy Spirit (known as 'that night' to many of my squadmates) I was getting ready for bed. I had no headache. "This is just a fluke," I thought. Well, I thought wrong.
To U Squad, 'that night' was also the night I experienced the healing of my migraines. Add that to the list 🙂
It has been 7.5 days and I still have not had a headache. I had headaches for 7 years straight, approximately 2,555 days. If you don't believe in miracles, you should now.
