Morgan shared how Lucy recently accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior, just two weeks prior to her injury.
“She went to her room and prayed to God to forgive her and that she believed in Jesus’ death and resurrection. What a gift,” he said.
Morgan said he was “reading yesterday about phases in our spiritual lives where God shows us something hard and walks with us through it.”
He continued, “I observed I have been a bit resistant to this in my journaling. Bethany and I then discussed Job as she finished her Bible reading plan with that book. Yesterday,” Morgan shared, “we were discussing how terrifying the book is. It’s even more so now. So gravely terrifying and mysteriously comforting.”
At the conclusion of his first blog post, he asked people to pray for a miracle that Lucy would be healed and also for his other children, specifically that the “enemy would not prey on our children. They are blaming themselves and taking it hard, however they do not yet know how serious it is.”
The following day they shared the severity of Lucy’s situation with their 4, 8, and 10 year-olds—a conversation Morgan described as one “you never want to have.”
Morgan said their hope is in the gospel, but was honest, telling his readers, “Although I’m a pastor and counselor, on my best days I’m an honest realist, at worst I’m a hopeless skeptic.”
“It’s far easier to shut hope down than to be hurt in opening your heart (according to the enemy),” he added. “However the gospel allows us, enables us, and calls us to hope. Our ultimate hope is the resurrection of Lucy’s body, but currently it is experienced in the grounding and embodied love of the church at large.”
RELATED: NBA Player Adrian Griffin Jr. Tells of God’s Deliverance After Nephew’s Death
At the end of day two, with his daughter’s blood still on him from holding her the day before, Morgan shared how tired he was and that he could “see the squiggles” on the back of his eyelids when he would close them.” He wrote that they were finally able to take a shower and he “washed the beach sand and Lucy’s blood off” of him. Saying, “I felt different.”
