Just to have him, I would take that. I had nothing but him.
Julie had to lay her spouse to rest while her kid battled for his life. She acknowledges at his burial that she felt God had abandoned her.
“I was devastated and deeply disappointed. And I’m nitpicking at God when I’m sitting at the funeral. She remarked, “I don’t know why this happened. Why He didn’t send angels to guard us is beyond me. However, the very next breath I’m praying to Him for Landon’s survival as fervently as I’ve ever prayed in my life.
Whitley Landon.
Julie’s prayers were answered when Landon opened his eyes two weeks after the tragedy, despite the fact that he had severe head trauma and was dependent on numerous machines to stay alive.
To the surprise of all, he was brain damage-free. But Julie realized she had to break the news to her son that his father had passed away in the middle of her joy that he was finally awake.His face was covered in scars. And there was nothing but pain in his skull. And I wanted to stop hurting him,” Julie recalled. “So, I said to Landon, ‘Do you know where your dad is at?’” And he acknowledged to me that he knew where he was. In paradise, I beheld him.
