The Light Through My Tunnel (eBook)

Embracing God's Grace Through Traumatic Brain Injury

Mary Varga (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
137 Seiten
Mary Varga (Verlag)
978-1-945976-55-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Traumatic brain injury and physical disability will change life as you’ve known it. My accident was a tragedy that changed my family forever. Ultimately, I was able to overcome it with courage and faith.

The book begins with my marriage two years before the car accident that changed my perfect life with no warning. I describe the car accident that resulted in my traumatic brain injury. My mobility, fluent speech, my driver’s license, my career, my new family: these are the losses I incurred after my unfortunate car accident.

 I recount all of the trials, challenges and triumphs of living without the balance required to maintain an active life. I describe, often with humor, the new challenges of living in a disabled body. Life with poor balance is different from anything I have ever encountered. Yet my fierce independence and determination propels me to keep reaching for more improvements to finally attain the ‘normal’ life I so desired. I still looked the same. Please God! Let me move as quickly and effortlessly as I used to!

I write extensively about all the family, friends and sometimes perfect strangers that have helped me to navigate in my new disabled world. For someone with such a self-proclaimed ‘simple life’, I sure do have a lot of great (and funny) stories to tell!

I end each chapter with a prayer concerning the events that transpired in that chapter. This is my life. So until I read back to what it was like in the beginning, it’s hard for even me to see how God has been directing my every step. My prayers are for thanksgiving and sometimes for help!

I write about seeing God’s grace as He carried me through this newest chapter in my life. I spend two decades trying to get back to the active, athletic, and fit person I was before my brain injury. That was the ‘old Mary’. Now I have become the ‘new Mary’….still active and fit, but with a new perspective on what is really important in life.

I’m embarrassed that it took so long to figure this out. You can be healthy, attractive and intelligent with a great career, family and friends; but without God as the center of your universe, you cannot have a truly joyful life. It took a traumatic brain injury to finally realize it wasn’t all about me.

Inhalt

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1  A New Beginning

2  The Accident

3  Entering the Tunnel

4  Learning to be Disabled

5  Another Punch in the Gut

6  Back on Bunker Hill

7  Trying to Fix It

8  Being a Mother: The Early Years

9  My Lost Independence

10  Ashamed of My Physical Self

11  The Wounded Healer

12  My Innate Desire to Work

13  The Author of My Strength

14  Being a Mother: Teenager and Young Adult

15  Joining In and Giving Back

16  My Kinsmen Redeemers

17  My Changing Walk With God

18  Mountaintop Moments

19  Is It Me? Is It Them? Does It Matter

20  Humility and the Power of Forgiveness

21  Suffering: It’s Part of Life

22  Do I Really Want a Man In My Life?

23  Writing For God

24  The New Me

25  Epilogue

Scripture Appendix

About the Author

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebensdeutung
• Schlagworte: brain injury (TBI) • Christian • Family • Inspiration • Memoir • overcoming • personal reinvention
• ISBN-10: 1-945976-55-1 / 1945976551
• ISBN-13: 978-1-945976-55-1 / 9781945976551