The devil attacks once again...

It seems that just in the past few months, there has been one accident after the other and one emergency after the other. In the past few months, the tally seems to be getting longer and longer: a death over Christmas, three friends admitted to the hospital (some with very serious, life-threatening conditions), at least three bad car accidents (all of which could have resulted in a death), in addition to several other incidents with people that I have heard about but don't know personally. And I know this isn't even the whole list. I think there have been more that I can't remember.

And then Sabbath night another one happened... One of my junior students went diving into the pond here on campus. It is quite deep and has been dove into before, but this time something went wrong and he hit his head on the bottom of the pond. (I am not sure if the pond is lower than normal or if he just dove into a more shallow part). Anyway, he fractured his neck in three places, traumatized his back, and inquired his wrist as well. The doctors are struggling to find where the numbness and pain is occurring in his arms. They can't trace it yet to the fractures in his neck and are trying to decide if it is nerve damage elsewhere in his body. Tomorrow he goes in for a MRI to see what trauma has occurred to his spinal cord.

Even in spite of it all, God has been good. They thought they were going to have to take him into surgery Sunday to repair the fractures in his neck, but decided that was not necessary. They thought he had severe back inquiry due to the pain he was experiencing, but realized it was a result of being strapped to the backboard for so long. Thankfully today he was able to get a little relief from the pain due to the high pain killers he is on.

Right now, it looks like he will be in the hospital for most of week. Then after that, none of us are sure what will happen. He will have to wear a neck brace for at least six weeks to allow the neck to heal properly. We are just praying that the recovery will not take too long.

Anyway, please keep Trevor in your prayers that he will have a complete recovery. As a teacher, it is difficult to see one of your students go through something like this and Trevor is one of the students here that is closest to me so it makes it really tough. I just thank God that he was not killed or completely paralyzed.

I am seeing more and more how real the great controversy between Christ and Satan really is. I believe the devil knows his time is short and he is doing his best to attack God's children and cause them suffering, pain, and heartache. But whatever he tries to do, let's not let him win! In the end, Christ will be victorious!