{"id":15593,"date":"2026-03-10T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/ricardo-sanchez-did-prayers-heal-his-son\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:59:50","slug":"ricardo-sanchez-did-prayers-heal-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/ricardo-sanchez-did-prayers-heal-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sanchez: Did Prayers Heal His Son?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Jennette, had dropped me off at the Atlanta airport that day to catch a flight to Jacksonville, Florida. I had my guitar with me and my gig bag. I\u2019m a composer and singer, and I had a show that night. Back then, just eight years ago\u2014it seems like eons\u2014there wasn\u2019t any Wi-Fi on the plane, so I would be out of touch en route. No problem. Jennette was used to being in charge at home. We had three boys. The youngest, Micah, was at summer camp, and the older two, Josiah and Ricardo, were swimming at a friend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/d2zfkpu1r6ym98.cloudfront.net\/sites\/guideposts.org\/files\/novgpcover2.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\" title=\"Mastin Kipp as seen on the cover of the Oct-Nov 2017 issue of Mysterious Ways\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-27188\" alt=\"Ricardo Sanchez as seen on the cover of the Nov 2017 issue of Guideposts\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/novgpcover1.jpg\" style=\"float:right\" width=\"261\" \/><\/a>We\u2019d had an awesome family vacation the week before, out on the central California coast, where Jennette\u2019s parents lived. The highlight had been the sea lions. 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I\u2019d just written a new song, \u201cIt\u2019s Not Over.\u201d The words said a lot about how I felt. \u201cI know it\u2019s dark just before the dawn&#8230;. So look to the sky\u2014help is on the way&#8230;. When God is in it, there is no limit.\u201d We can never be sure of the big picture. We can only live in <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/quotes-for-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faith<\/a> and trust.<\/p>\n<p>How true those words would prove to be that day.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the plane landed in Jacksonville, I checked my phone. I had a couple dozen messages. <em>What\u2019s up with that? <\/em>I thought. The calls were from Jennette, our pastor and another friend. Standing in the aisle, I listened to Jennette first and heard the words that no parent ever wants to hear: \u201cThere\u2019s been an accident&#8230;at the pool&#8230;. Josiah. He\u2019s hurt&#8230;. I\u2019m rushing to get there&#8230;. Don\u2019t know yet\u2026\u201d Her words came in panicked bursts.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed my stuff from the overhead and called her back. I was in a daze, moving down the aisle. \u201cWe\u2019re at urgent care in Flowery Branch,\u201d Jennette said. \u201cIt\u2019s bad&#8230;. They\u2019re looking at the X-rays&#8230;. He can hardly move&#8230;. It\u2019s his neck, his spine. Broken&#8230;\u201d Evidently, Josiah had dived into the pool headfirst, just like those sea lions that had fascinated him, fearless. It was the shallow end. He\u2019d hit his head on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>He could still stand when Jennette got to him, but he was woozy, disoriented, crying in pain. She rushed him to the nearest urgent care. There he was surrounded by doctors and nurses while his condition worsened.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know what to do. Cancel the gig\u2014that was a no-brainer. I had to fly back to Atlanta immediately, had to be with Josiah and Jennette and our <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/prayers-for-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family<\/a>. I was like a zombie at the terminal, tears streaming down my face, my phone glued to my ear. <em>What if my son dies? <\/em>The first thing I did was buy a pair of sunglasses. If people saw me like this, they might not even let me on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Then I checked with Delta. The next flight back to Atlanta was in four hours. Four hours! All I could do was wait and pray. And keep checking with Jennette.<\/p>\n<p>The X-rays were worse than anyone could have imagined. Josiah had injured his spinal cord at the C3, C4, C5 and C6 vertebrae, near the base of his neck. He was being airlifted from urgent care and taken to Scottish Rite hospital in downtown Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t let me go with him,\u201d Jennette told me as a friend drove her to Scottish Rite. \u201cHe was crying. \u2018Please don\u2019t leave me, Mom,\u2019 he said. He\u2019s so scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me too. I was a basket case. I maneuvered my way between a row of seats at the terminal, dropped my bag and guitar and lay facedown on the floor. I\u2019d never felt so hopeless. I\u2019d never prayed so hard. My son could end up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life\u2014if he survived\u2014and there was nothing I could do. The words from that song I\u2019d written careened through my mind: \u201cIt\u2019s not over, it\u2019s not finished. \/ It\u2019s not ending. It\u2019s only the beginning. \/ When God is in it, all things are new&#8230;.\u201d If only I could believe that.<\/p>\n<p>The phone kept buzzing with people wanting to help. A friend was trying to charter a private plane that would fly me home. In the meanwhile, I booked myself on the Delta flight. I\u2019d take whatever came first.<\/p>\n<p>I called my parents in Arizona. They were shocked. \u201cYou\u2019re such good people,\u201d they said. \u201cWhy would God do this to you?\u201d I couldn\u2019t answer them.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up on the Delta flight and, again, couldn\u2019t check my phone. My son could be dead, and I wouldn\u2019t know. I could only check in with God. I felt as if I were in some sort of cosmic waiting room, hiding behind the dark glasses, clinging to hope.<\/p>\n<p>Friends picked me up at the airport and sped me to Scottish Rite. I rushed to the ER and hugged Jennette. She introduced me to the neurosurgeon, Dr. Brahma. He seemed excellent. But there was so much that could go wrong, that had gone wrong. Jennette and I held hands and prayed.<\/p>\n<p>Then something amazing happened. Jennette\u2019s mom, out in California, happened to be at a party with friends when she got the news. One of the guests was a prominent neurosurgeon. He got in touch with Dr. Brahma and the staff at Scottish Rite. They sent him a copy of the X-rays and the CT scan they\u2019d just done. First we got a call from him\u2014in the middle of our prayers\u2014and he reassured us that our son would be fine. A doctor we didn\u2019t even know, two thousand miles away. But he was so confident.<\/p>\n<p>Then Dr. Brahma came out from the examination room, a look of wonder on his face. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to explain this. In all my years here, I\u2019ve never seen anything like it. I compared the X-rays from urgent care with the results of the CT scan we just took. They don\u2019t match up.\u201d \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour son broke his neck, but his spinal cord isn\u2019t damaged. The injury is still very serious. We\u2019ll need to do surgery, but he\u2019s probably going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennette and I looked at each other in amazement. \u201cHow do you explain it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brahma paused. Finally he said, \u201cThere is no explanation. I\u2019m a Muslim and you\u2019re both Christians. Just keep doing what you\u2019re doing.\u201d He must have heard us praying. \u201cJust keep doing what you\u2019re doing,\u201d he repeated. \u201cDon\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We prayed continuously, most of that night and the next day, when Josiah had the surgery. Initially Dr. Brahma thought it was going to take eight hours, but it went much faster. He also said that our son would have to do physical therapy for six months when he got out of the hospital. But once Josiah got home, he was bounding around as usual. He didn\u2019t even need a day of physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Today Josiah is the scrappy, fearless athletic kid he was before. He\u2019s six-foot-five and a star on the high school basketball team. What he went through when he was nine, though, will always be with him, like the scar that runs across his back. A few months after the accident, I heard Josiah sobbing in his bedroom. I went in to check on him. \u201cBaby, what\u2019s the matter?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad,\u201d he said, \u201cI almost died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat down next to him on his bed, rubbed his back, looking for just the right words. My fingers touched his scar. I paused. \u201cJosiah,\u201d I said, \u201cnever again will this scar remind you of death. Let it remind you of how God pulled you out of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That song of mine, \u201cIt\u2019s Not Over,\u201d was released after the accident. It\u2019s become one of my most successful compositions, sung at churches all over and recorded by other artists. But that\u2019s not the most amazing thing. Before I\u2019d shared the song with anyone, two friends visited us.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d each had a dream the night of the accident, both of them the same <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/7-dream-facts-you-probably-didnt-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dream<\/a>. One of them described it: \u201cWe both saw a boy fall into a pool. He was drowning. Then an angel appeared and picked him up from the bottom and lifted him out. \u2018It\u2019s not over,\u2019 the angel said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not over. It never is, not when God is in it. All things are new.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: <\/strong>Ricardo\u2019s newest album is <em>Taste + See, <\/em>a collection of songs written or co-written by him and recorded live at San Antonio\u2019s Cornerstone Church. \u201cI can\u2019t wait for people to hear this album and know the heart behind the music,\u201d he says. \u201cTaste and see because God is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more inspiring stories, subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\"><strong>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> <em>magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Jennette, had dropped me off at the Atlanta airport that day to catch a flight to Jacksonville, Florida. I had my guitar with me and my gig bag. I\u2019m a composer and singer, and I had a show that night. 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