Share. Connect. Love.

Laura Hewett - Journal

Read Entries & Updates

 

Posted 2015-03-17T21:21:01Z

I Want It All

Just like Queen, I want it now, too.

Sunday night at family group, we talked about prayer, and one of the adults asked me if the group could pray over me before we finished for the night. I will never turn down prayer. As he presented the idea to the group, he said, "I'm not sure what healing looks like." That struck me pretty powerfully because that's been something I've wrestled with over the past year. Someone asked what I'd like them to pray for specifically, and I responded, "I want it all." I clarified that while I do want everything physical restored, I'm also not sure what healing looks like, but I know it's more than physical. When I say I want it all, I mean physical, emotional, and spiritual healing of things that were broken even before my accident last January. [...]

Posted 2015-03-08T13:22:50Z

With Wes

It's amazing the way people rally around individuals in crisis. I saw it when I woke up from surgery over a year ago, and the city of Portland is witnessing it now after Wesley Matthews ruptured his Achilles tendon. Several days after, he posted a really honest reflection on his facebook that I really resonate with. He wrote "none of it felt real, and to be honest, it still doesn't." Sometimes I feel that way over a year later. I still have mornings where I wake up and expect to be able to move my legs normally. It hasn't happened yet. They're still stiff and spasing on me. I still have to set an extra alarm to take the muscle relaxants an hour before I get out of bed.[...]

Posted 2015-03-02T21:50:28Z

Incision

Get ready for a long post. Maybe skip a few paragraphs if you're in a rush. Like after the indented material perhaps. It's been a while since I've had a Demon Hunter inspired post, and I was just preparing my lesson for next Monday comparing Demon Hunter lyrics to the Psalms, so I thought I'd reflect a little here on some of their songs and how they relate to my holistic recovery process. I was on the fan site where the band posts some background on the inspiration or meaning of each song. This is the content for the song "Incision" off their album Storm the Gates of Hell: [...]