The Chiropractor Part 2: God is Doing A New Thing

When I came to my senses after the craziest chiropractor adjustment experience of my life, they ushed me to the x-ray room for a weighted x-ray. I’ve seen chiropractors for years throughout the country and have never had an experience like this before. God really is doing a new thing! He revealed so much about this process of trusting him through it in just a few moments at the chiropractor.

If you haven’t yet, catch the first part of this story here at [The Chiropractor Part 1: Whiplash Reversal].

Wobbly

After that other-worldy adjustment, I couldn’t stand up very well. So wobbly. It was like trying to stand up on a surfboard. (And for the record, I gave myself pneumonia from trying to learn to surf. That’s how good I am at that!)

 My neck felt like an actual bobblehead. I wondered if it might roll off like in a Shel Silverstein poem. She asked if I was ok and I said, “No. I’m not.” She asked if I needed a minute and some water. Yes. Definitely. When Dan died, Rosalinda (who I met at the funeral) told me I’ll need to keep tissues and water close by.

I asked for a few minutes alone and just sobbed. I lifted my hands to the heavens and in tears, cried out, “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I need you.” And all I heard was a gently joyful whisper, “See. I really am doing  a new thing.”

And then, an old song came on the radio. “I raise a hallelujah.” They blast worship music in this place, and it’s awesome. At the funeral, I lifted my hands and praised God through tears and sang, “I raise a hallelujah.” I flashed back to the funeral again, and the car accident as a kid. More waves of tears came.

I felt wobbly between old and new, what was and what is.

Stability

When all I’ve had is new things for so many years, that’s the last thing I want. I want him to do a stable thing. A controlled thing. A predictable thing. And yet, that new thing on the adjustment table knocked stuff loose both in body, mind, and spirit.

That new thing released trauma that had been buried in deep for decades. And so was it worth it? I think so. Will you ask me one day if this hypermobility in my life is worth it? I hope to say yes.

A New Thing

Because while the whole thing feels like whiplash in a way, it’s not. Because whiplash leaves trauma. And this new thing. It’s as sudden and shocking as whiplash, but it’s got to be undoing the trauma. Just as swiftly. A whiplash reversal.

I know I’m not the only one. I’ve talked to many friends where God is moving swiftly and unexpectedly. He’s preparing them for a new thing and they don’t even know exactly what it will be yet. If that’s you, may this encourage you today.

“Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old.
¹⁹ Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
    and rivers in the desert.
²⁰ The wild beasts will honor me,
    the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
    rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,
²¹     the people whom I formed for myself
that they might declare my praise.

Isaiah 43:18-21, ESV

Behold, God really is doing a new thing and He’s doing it in new ways. And we need to do our darndest to relax and surrender and entrust our whole selves and our whole families into His capable, precise, and loving hands.