I was driving today and HAD to stop and take a picture! This was in front of a friend's house. This is not just a free wheelchair. The story behind this free wheelchair is powerful! Our friend was hospitalized and had surgery. He started to get better, but then got really sick and again was hospitalized. The surgery had caused even more damage and his health was failing fast. Back and forth he went from rehab to emergency room, surgery and additional problems; the battle went on for years. He was eventually put into a total body cast. On top of all that, he was face to face with death three times! Per doctor advice, he made his will, put his affairs in order, sold his house and prepared for the worst. 

But something on the inside of him never gave up. Perhaps it was that "drive" to live (after all he must have read that word on his chair every day)! He was a fighter. We encouraged him, told our story and breathed hope for healing. Testimony is so powerful. 

Months later we got news that he was beginning to slowly do better. Then each and every day, his health began to improve! He was being restored to strength, healing and wholeness once again. God, in all his goodness and grace had given him a second chance to fulfill his destiny in this world and take back what the enemy had stolen (John 10:10). 

I wondered, as he lay in his sick bed, failing...did he picture in his mind the day he would give away his wheelchair, cast it onto the curb without a care? Did he imagine that he'd run freely? Thrive again? Today, he's back on his own, independent, healing and FREE. Praise be to God.

This is the goodness of the Lord for your child also! Sensory processing disorder doesn't usually cause children to need wheelchairs. But it is crippling in so many ways. And it is not God's best for their life. 

Envision the items you can set on the street in a box: that weighted blanket, those compression shirts, a body sock, chewy toys, gloves, noise-canceling headphones, those gluten-free noodles, the applesauce packs, etc. DREAM BIG! And know that whatever items you decide to keep after their healing comes, it will be because you want them, not because you need them. 

"Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”          

John 8:31-32

"And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all."  - Luke 6:19

"But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed."                                                                                            

Isaiah 53:5