The Cup She Kept Raising
Maria Gonzalez almost didn't survive the surgery. When the tumor wrapped around her spine in 2019, doctors at Houston Methodist gave her a thirty percent...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18.
Maria Gonzalez almost didn't survive the surgery. When the tumor wrapped around her spine in 2019, doctors at Houston Methodist gave her a thirty percent chance of walking again. Her husband Roberto sat in the waiting room for eleven hours, turning his wedding ring like a prayer wheel. She walked out of that hospital six weeks later. What struck her pastor wasn't the recovery itself — it was what Maria did afterward.…
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