Amazing Blessings

So right after all this happened I called the Hospital where a few weeks prior I had given birth to our daughter. In the midst of everything my husband told me he had sent in the COBRA paperwork, but had actually missed the deadline. That meant our little one was born uninsured. I was really upset, all that needed to be done was for the form to be sent in.

The Hospital was so compassionate. They informed me the bills that were due there were not just from the birth, but also from my last pregnancy, ear surgery on my son, and a broken arm I had surgery for.

I was in tears, so many of those thing I thought had been paid. They sent me a packet of paperwork to report everything, our bank balances, budgets, expenses, credit reports. It took quite a while to sort through all the bills and get an accurate view of everything. It was quite a realization looking at the forms. Our credit card bill payment each month was more than 50% of what my husband brought home, and that was just minimum payments. I reported all the services we canceled like, Satellite and various services we do our self. Down to details like dry cleaning.

Today we got a letter from the hospital. They have a charity fund. They have forgiven all of the bills. God is amazing. We never saw this coming. There are still doctor bills and expenses. We still have collections and even legal summons for some of this debt. By God's grace we were given this gift.

We are rebuilding our trust in each other. I get to see my children play everyday. I have passion again for my husband, my job and the joys of parenting. I can see miracles all around. This was a huge grace, but there have been many blessings on this road, the dark times are very scary, but God has never left our side.

He is right there with us as we suffer, cry and at times feel discouraged and hopeless. He picks our head up from the sin and shame and carries us when it feels like all is lost. We could not fight any battles in this alone. The blessings from others and from God's grace are so abundant. God can take the most horrible sins and problems and turn them into learning experiences that you are so grateful you got to experience.

Praise be to God in the high and lows. Thanks be to him for the forgiveness and relief of the shame that came with this process.

Thanks for sharing in our blogs, you are in our prayers too if you are in a similar debt or addiction journey.