“Praise God she is doing great,” Carr said after explaining the explosion caused second-degree burns on his wife’s arms, neck, and face. “If I never told you that story, you wouldn’t even know. It’s unbelievable what God has done.”
While his family was dealing with his wife’s injury, Carr was also scheduled to travel to New Orleans to care for his shoulder injury. But then he shared that he had to rush his wife to the emergency room for a separate issue, because he feared for her life.
“On top of that, we have an emergency in our house, and my wife is not doing good. I’ll just say it that way,” Carr said. Describing the situation, he shared, “I don’t get scared often, but I was nervous for her life.” Carr explained that he immediately called his brother, who lives just minutes away, to come to his house to watch the kids so he could take Heather to the emergency room.
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“I rushed my wife to the emergency room, and thankfully, we know some people there at the hospital, [so they] got her right in,” Carr said. “[Heather] had been struggling with some health stuff, and we’ve been walking through it. We’ve been going through that, praying about it, and going through that together.”
He shared that after she went through multiple tests, the doctors told them that Heather was “completely fine.” Carr said, “So we’re thankful” and celebrating because that was an answer to prayer.
“But what we didn’t know, which came to a complete shock and surprise to us,” Carr told the congregation, “is that we had a miscarriage.”
“We didn’t know we had a baby,” Carr said. “So now we’re hit with this and this emotional toll of, wait, we had a child. So I don’t just have four babies—we have five. One is in heaven. We have three little boys, a little girl, and we’ll get to meet the other one when we get to heaven someday.”
Concluding his point, Carr said, “I say all that to say, let’s be a people that doesn’t judge and point out and just think the worst when you don’t really know what people are going through.”
The Carr family did experience some pretty exciting news that involved all three of their boys getting baptized this past week. “It doesn’t really matter what we’re going through right now,” Carr shared. “That is the biggest win you could ever give me. If our children will follow Jesus and openly declare that they want to follow God for the rest of their life, you can count us winners.”
