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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cThey were going to temporarily paralyze and intubate her,\u201d said Gretchen. \u201cBut then one of the surgeons came out after examining her and said, \u2018You know what? I\u2019m going to wait on this surgery a little longer.\u2019 I know it was the power of God that touched him and caused him to change his mind about the operation. Sophia was in the hospital in the intensive care unit (ICU) for three weeks after that, and every day when the physicians visited, they saw improvements. Some days, we noticed only a slight difference in her recovery, but as we walked through this journey together, there were always improvements.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apostle Collins recalled, \u201cWhen she fell off the back of the moving vehicle, her head was swelling, and her prognosis was bleak because she had a brain bleed. When Gretchen called me, I asked her to put me on speakerphone so Sophia could hear me, and I began to pray. I told Sophia that I felt the anointing presence of God, and through the healing of the Lord, I believed she would recover without an operation. Shortly after I prayed that prayer, her doctors chose not to perform the surgery to relieve the swelling in her brain. I don\u2019t think I slept but four hours that entire weekend because I was pacing the floor. Gretchen and Sophia have been members of my church since Sophia was about 6 years old. It would have been easy for Sophia to have suffered permanent brain damage or to have died that day, so we are grateful that God performed this miracle in her life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gretchen said, \u201cThe ICU doctors and nurses told me that they\u2019d never seen anyone with her type of head trauma recover so quickly. She did have to learn to walk again, but even that was speedy. After we returned home, she immediately went back to living her life. She went back to school and even got a job, and I thought, \u2018Honey, you need to slow down.\u2019 But in the end, this is what it\u2019s all about \u2014 having the faith to really let her go. If she couldn\u2019t do it, she would stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The doctors diagnosed Sophia with post-concussion syndrome, and though she still battles with migraines, this near-death experience has caused her to step out of her comfort zone and embrace life to the fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have a hard time remembering things now,\u201d said Sophia. \u201cI struggle to put sentences together at times, and I get migraines that bring me back to that time, but all of these things are fading as time goes on. I may have taken a couple of steps back because of the accident, but I have learned a lot and have been pushing and going after my heart\u2019s desires. I\u2019ve really been living life because it\u2019s a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sophia continued, \u201cRight now could be your last moment on this Earth. What would you want to do or say before your time is over? Have you accomplished what you planned? Have you lived to please God? Knowing that I could have died without living more of my life really broke me when I was in the hospital. So, enjoy your time here. Don\u2019t hold grudges against people. Pray for them instead.\u201d GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Life for Sophia Clark changed in an instant last year. One second, she was rooting for her high school basketball team while enjoying time with friends, and the next, she was lying on the driveway unconscious. When her mother, Gretchen, received an urgent call from her daughter\u2019s school minutes later, Sophia was being loaded into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/bowling-green\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2025-01-03T132353.997-1024x683.jpg\")
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