No reason to use my words, here's Nick's words from his Facebook post.

Long Post:

When the your world gets turned upside down and inside out due to extreme scenarios our bodies can either react or was shut down.

In the same way our spiritual life is put to the test, do you respond with anger towards God and ask why me or do you fall on your knees with a sense of comfort knowing God has everything in control?

Many don’t know and it’s taken some time for me to come up with words to explain what exactly happened, so here it goes.

After a normal pregnancy and delivery to our new born boy named Rawlee we were able to enjoy the new found chaos of having 3 kids in the house. Thankfully we have a strong faith and family support system readily available to jump in and help where and when ever we need it. ( un fathomable who and how many people are really in your corner)

After a short 12 days of life,everything you have read above came rushing into play, on Monday, after a night of restlessness and vomiting Rawlee became lethargic and very sick. From a semi normal doctor appointment that morning, to an ER visit at Vandy Children’s our son had gone into cardiac arrest 15 min after we arrived and was administered CPR for around 2 minutes. Any and every emotion you can imagine came rushing all at once, as we sit there watching the staff work vigorously to save our child we couldn’t help but run the infinite amount of scenarios in our heads of what if. I’d be lying to you if in wasn’t scared or in shock of the scenario.

What I can tell you is that through my faith in God and the belief that he has everything under control, there was a sense of peace knowing there is only 1 person in control over the situation. My selfish Christian mind wanted Him to save my son and make this all go away, we have all been there in different scenarios.

However, this is not how God operates, yes he listens to prayers and yes he answers prayers and yes it’s okay to ask for prayers but what we have to know is God works on his time frame no one else’s. It’s through faith that we trust him Psalm 56:3-4 “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.” Because of this I know what ever God decided to do with our son it was part of His greater plan and he will get us through it.

Fast forward to today as I sit in awe of the outpouring of love, prayers and compassion from family to people we don’t even know I can tell you it’s nothing short of Gods hand at play in every scenario from the 35 min drive during 4pm traffic from my house to downtown Nashville, knowing that if we hit one pocket of traffic ( that any other day there is) we would potentially be too late to his heart making a complete recover in less than 24 hours after suffering cardiac arrest for 2 min.

There are still numerous amount of questions we have but I can assure you, Gods plans for our son didn’t end in a triage room and we thank God for that daily.

I will end in these couple scriptures,

James 1:2-3

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”

2 Corinthians 12:9

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.