a letter to my pastor

I wanted to let my pastor know how God has worked in my life so I wrote this today after church and I thought maybe it would let you guys know how I’m feeling.  

Pastor Scott,
We are not members of the church but my family and I have been attending MAG since just after Easter. I wanted to give you my testimony of how God has worked in my life.  

I was never a real stand out Christian and actually quite the opposite. I was a very social 25 year old, hanging out with my friends, going to bars, chasing women, drinking heavily and living a pretty reckless life. In late October last year my life took a drastic turn.

After partying with friends, I tried to drive home from Manassas to Arlington under the influence of alcohol.  I have no memory of the accident but I’ve been told that me and my soft top Jeep left the road on I66 at Exit 66. It was a single car accident in the early hours of the morning when there weren’t many people on the road. If not for the cab driver that God placed behind me, that called at the onset of the accident, that was responsible for the quick response from the police,  I would not be here today. I was non-responsive at the scene and Code Blue when I arrived at Fairfax Hospital. I had to be revived and was not expected to live much less walk and talk. I was in a coma for almost 30 days and hospitalized for 3 months. After being released from the hospital I went back and forth to a rehabilitaion center until the end of May. Even my doctors say that my recovery so far has been nothing short of a miracle. Every day I feel blessed to be alive. God saved my life. I know that for sure.

I feel very blessed to be alive now because if there was anybody worth saving it was not me. If there was a bad way to live, I was living it. I don’t know why God saved me but he did. I have a new found appreciation for life itself. I no longer destroy my body with drugs and drinking and just being able to walk into church makes me wonder “why me?” sometimes.

Maybe as a reminder, I didn’t walk away unscathed. I had compression fractures to my back, a minor injury to my right knee and right shoulder but my head injury was the worst. If there was a part of my brain that could be injured, it was. I had a severe traumatic brain injury and as a result have had to work toward relearning everything. I can now walk without assistance. I can talk clearly. I can hear perfectly. Physically I can do all the things a person my age should be able to do, just working on speed and agility. I am even working with a friend of mine one day a week and still have very big aspirations for my future. I still have memory issues but I work hard every day to overcome them. I believe in time, it will come. I have hopes for a full recovery and more if that is God’s plan.

My family and friends set up a website to communicate my progress but now it is a way for me to read and to understand what I went through. It has also been a way for me to see how many people were praying for me to survive the accident.  The website is still up – it is www.weluvmike.com and though I don’t even know some of the visitors that keep up with my progress, they still pray for me and my recovery. My mom did a video and someone said to me how could anyone watching the video or following my progress ever question that there is a God. I feel that I am truly a testament to the power of prayer and God’s work even for the unworthy.

Respectfully,
Mike Rosner

Some family friends of ours i.e., the court of despair, are experiencing troubled times.  It is now our turn to be there for them. Miracles do happen and the power of prayer works. Keep hope alive.