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“Could You do that again?” by Miss Adria June 4, 1999

These were the words that I heard the Lord say to me as I sat in the living room in the green rocking chair holding and rocking Mercy, my 10th child. I had had some complications with her birth and had to be on total bed rest One night I was sleeping and had turned over and began to hemorrhage. I turned on to my back and began praying that in the name of Jesus the bleeding would stop. It did miraculously and the next day my children and Stephen made a cot and ferried me in to the hospital for an ultrasound. The ultrasound had revealed that the placenta, or afterbirth, was at the bottom of my uterus completely blocking the birth canal. It had pulled away. That was the beginning of 6 weeks of total bed rest.

Some days were good and some were long and I thought they would never end. I had a calendar by my bed and I would cross off the day each night at 10 and thank God that I had made it another day. I worked at trying to keep myself busy writing and helping out in our ministry in any way that I could. That helped a lot.

So here I was sitting in the rocking chair rocking that precious bundle, Mercy, for which we had waited so long. She had been born 3 weeks early, but she was healthy and fine. I believe I had been praying and singing and rocking the baby and the spirit of the Lord came into the room. I had only had this type of experience once before about 8 years earlier.

My stepsister, Donya, was in labor and I was there to help her. It was raining this night and very dark. Her labor was progressing and she seemed like she wanted to push, but the midwife was not there! I was quite distressed and then the Spirit of the Lord came into the room from the right side and the Lord said, “The midwife is not going to get here in time and everything is going to be okay.” That gave me faith and I went ahead and delivered her son. Everything was okay and the midwife did eventually come. She had gotten lost in the rain and dark.

Now as I sat in that rocking chair, the Spirit of the Lord came into the room again just like that time and said, “Could you do that again?” You know so many times after we go through a situation we form an opinion, “Oh that was so hard I never want to do that again!” But my answer that day was, “Yes, Lord. How could I say that I couldn’t do that again. You are the one that gave me the grace for each day and really carried me through. It wasn’t me.” And that was all the Lord asked me and His presence lifted.

Now I remembered this experience as a precious lady came to visit me recently and there I was laying down again because I had had some bleeding with this 12th child! It all of the sudden dawned on me what the Lord had asked me 7 years earlier after Mercy’s birth, “Could you do that again?” Then I began to think about my present situation. Here I was lying down again, similar circumstances.....but wait it was the same time of year! In fact this baby was due the same time Mercy was due! It was totally incredible. But that was only the beginning of the coincidences!

I was laying down again and this time I was blessed to have a computer, so I passed the time working on publications for the Hide the Word in Your Heart Club and I was quite busy. I learned to type on my side. This time I was not on total bed rest like before. I could get up to go to the bathroom and could turn from side to side.

The children and Stephen were so nice to me, bringing me food and visiting with me and calling in a lot. Stephen had a cell phone so I could get him anytime that I needed him. I was totally blessed. I felt bad that I could not be up helping my family, but tried to make up for it by busying myself helping the ministry. I was really working toward carrying the baby into June, that would give the baby time to gain weight and be stronger.

It was May 27, Mercy’s 7th birthday. Stephen had taken her out to breakfast on his motorcycle and while she was gone the children baked a cake and decorated so that when they got back she had a birthday party with some gifts. Then Stephen took all of the children out to a campsite not far from our home to go swimming. Paul stayed home with me. I had just returned from the restroom and was laying down visiting with Paul and I had a spurt of something come out and then another and another. I dared not move, but asked Paul to pray for me. “Mom, don’t you want to get up and see what is happening?” I replied, “No I better just lie still” So we called Stephen and he headed back toward home. Meanwhile I checked to see what I was losing and found it was blood. As soon as Stephen arrived we would go to the hospital. I had called ahead, but my usual doctor was at a conference and another doctor was on call.

Stephen arrived home and said, “We’ve got to get you into the car.” He picked me up and something began to gush out all over! I said, “Please get me to the car as fast as possible!” We later decided that my water bag must have broken and I was losing blood and water as we left a trail from the bedroom to the car. Stephen’s pants were soaked as well. That was a very scary moment. As he put me into the front seat of the car with the seat tilted back, (all of our seats are bucket seats!) Paul was so lead of the Lord.

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