
Someday I'll Have Time For God ... But Not Today
“Someday I’ll have time for God, but not today!”Those words, uttered by my son, caused the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. On a visit to Steve’s home for his 40th birthday, I had let him know my plans to attend a local church that had been praying for my health. That never happened, because Steve fell down the cellar stairs that night. That one misstep changed all of our lives forever.Pray. Breathe. Pray. The two hour drive to the Trauma Center in Portland ME seemed endless. A life flight helicopter was transporting Steve there in a race to save his life. Subdural hematoma and traumatic brain injury were words I was to become very familiar with in the next few weeks.A subdural hematoma is a blood clot between the skull and the brain that can occur after a head injury. Stephen’s fall and resulting bleed in his head was causing his brain to swell at an alarming rate. The doctors operated on him twice that day removing two sections of his skull to give the brain the room it need