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Do you believe in prayer? I do. This is my fourth story in G<\/em>uideposts<\/em>. The first time was back in 1986, when I was at the outset of my music career, a story about loneliness<\/a>, part of a series Guideposts was doing on the subject.<\/p>\n

Loneliness was some\u00adthing many folks mentioned in their letters to Guideposts Prayer Fellow\u00adship. I wrote about how I use prayer to overcome loneliness<\/a> when it strikes, and it strikes just about everyone at one time or another. Even Jesus was lonely in the Garden of Gethsemane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The next story, in 2005, was about giving and giving thanks<\/a>, and how any act of generosity, no matter how small, truly makes a difference. My guiding prayer? \u201cLord, lead me today to those I need and to those who need me, and let something I do have eter\u00adnal significance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third story, in 2013, was about my dad\u2019s battle with Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>. He was a brilliant man, a radiation oncologist who was dedicated to his patients and to learning. It was sim\u00adply inconceivable to me that a dis\u00adease could rob this man I loved and admired so much of his intellectual faculties. I had to lean into prayer like never before to deal with it.<\/p>\n

Those stories mostly centered on the problems of others and how ex\u00adperiencing God\u2019s presence through prayer<\/a> is always the answer. This story is about my own journey with a medi\u00adcal condition that was discovered out of the blue two years ago\u2026a heart de\u00adfect that was about to change my life in ways I\u2019d never imagined.<\/p>\n

In December 2019, my husband, Vince Gill, had an appointment with his cardiologist, John Bright Cage, to go over some test results. I went with him. Vince got a great report; his heart was in good shape. Then Dr. Cage turned to me and said the strangest, most unexpected thing. \u201cAmy, I think I need to check you out too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me? I didn\u2019t have any heart issues. In fact, most of my life I\u2019d enjoyed a freakish amount of energy. But re\u00adcently I had noticed some shortness of breath while singing (something I\u2019ve been doing professionally since I was a teenager) and an irregular heartbeat that would occasionally leave me feeling dizzy. Wasn\u2019t that just part of aging<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I trusted Dr. Cage and booked an appointment for the first week of Jan\u00aduary. He ordered one test after anoth\u00ader. After each procedure, he\u2019d send me a text saying, \u201cLooks good.\u201d But then came a different kind of text: \u201cCall me as soon as you read this.\u201d I did.<\/p>\n

The radiologist who had done one particular test contacted Dr. Cage to say that my heart was enlarged, due to a heretofore undetected birth de\u00adfect\u2014something called partial anom\u00adalous pulmonary venous return. (It was a while before I\u2019d be able to say that mouthful.) Evidently, one of the veins that carries blood from the lungs to the heart was going to the wrong side of my heart, enlarging the left ventricle.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to need surgery,\u201d Dr. Cage said to me. \u201cOpen-heart\u2026.And sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had a busy few months coming up, with an extensive concert tour, and band and crew who were counting on that work, so I asked, \u201cCan it wait un\u00adtil\u2026the summer?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis condition presents as fine, fine, fine. And then becomes cata\u00adstrophic,\u201d Dr. Cage said. \u201cYou\u2019ll need surgery before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hung up, dumbfounded.<\/p>\n

I told my sister Carol. She remem\u00adbered that when we were kids, the pediatrician would always take extra time listening to my heart. He talked about hearing a heart murmur. I had a vague memory of that.<\/p>\n

Up to this point in my life\u2014I was 59\u2014I\u2019d never had any real health is\u00adsues. Open-heart surgery<\/a> was a lot to wrap my head around.<\/p>\n

I was glad for the distraction of the 2020 tour dates that started at the end of January.<\/p>\n

And then the pandemic happened.<\/p>\n

Everything shut down. For ev\u00aderyone. Concert tours and sporting events were the first things to be can\u00adceled. Vince and I found ourselves qui\u00adetly holed up at our home in Nashville. The situation around the world was upsetting, and my prayers included all the people who were suffering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This sudden break in our schedule proved a hidden blessing for Vince and me, a hard thing to say in the midst of such a global tragedy. I spent long hours in our backyard, walk\u00ading barefoot in the grass\u2014ground\u00ading myself, feeling the coolness of the earth beneath my feet, savoring every spring flower<\/a> that bloomed.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d take deep breaths, meditating, feeling the breath of life that God breathed into us at the Creation. Everything felt more precious since my diagnosis. I was sensing God in each moment<\/a>, re\u00adalizing that if I could learn to live this way, I could live without fear, no mat\u00adter what the future held. Isn\u2019t that the essence of faith?<\/p>\n

By the time I was scheduled for surgery, in June, I was probably the most rested I\u2019d been in years, physi\u00adcally and spiritually. Through social media, word got out of what was in store for me. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how many people are praying for you<\/a>,\u201d Vince said. \u201cThousands of them.\u201d I tried to read the responses, but there were just too many. I wanted to reach out and thank each person.<\/p>\n

I could feel the peace of everyone\u2019s prayers. I wasn\u2019t scared. Not at all. It was like I had a West Texas wind at my back, carrying me through the entire process. When I was prepped for sur\u00adgery, I felt so completely enveloped in the presence of God\u2019s love<\/a>, in the love that came through all those prayers.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean it was easy. The surgery was a success. Still, afterward, I felt as if I\u2019d been hit by a train. Tubes and wires were coming out of me in all kinds of places. I was bruised, my sternum was wired shut and my chest was stitched up.<\/p>\n

The doctors said I\u2019d be in the hospi\u00adtal for a least a week\u2014typical for an open-heart surgery<\/a> patient\u2014but after three days I was feeling good enough to go home.<\/p>\n

I felt like a walking miracle.<\/p>\n

And I was.<\/p>\n

The 14-week recovery period was a discovery in how different a good heart feels. Gone was the irregular heartbeat. Gone was the shortness of breath. It was as though I had been riding a bike on two flat tires for the past few years, and now they were aired up and ready to go.<\/p>\n

After the mostly sedentary six months awaiting surgery, and the three months post-surgery, my mis\u00adsion was to regain and build stamina.<\/p>\n

I needed to do something to build strength and endurance. But what? I tried running, but starting that prac\u00adtice at 59 was not a good idea. My body felt old and defeated. My core strength had evaporated. Anyone who sings knows that core strength<\/a> is essential.<\/p>\n

About that time, we began gear\u00ading up rehearsals to relaunch the tour that had been canceled in March 2020. I planned an ambitious 25-plus-song set list. Dates were booked. The band and crew were ready.<\/p>\n

I was not.<\/p>\n

After the first rehearsal, I realized I could not make it through even half of the material. The fear was paralyz\u00ading. I imagined that this would be my final tour, limping my way through the songs each night, disappointing myself and anyone who had bought a ticket.<\/p>\n

I prayed a familiar prayer: Help me<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The answer turned out to be right in my backyard.<\/p>\n

An old friend had come to visit for a few days, just the two of us in the house. We had so much catching up to do.<\/p>\n

Since it was summertime, after din\u00adner I suggested, \u201cLet\u2019s go for a night\u00adtime swim and talk under the stars.\u201d When Vince and I bought this house, the pool came with it. I\u2019m not a swim\u00admer. I\u2019d never made much use of the pool. It was mostly for the kids.<\/p>\n

That night, Cindy and I kept our heads above water so we could talk, doing the breaststroke, going slowly back and forth the length of the pool, visiting…for two hours! I wasn\u2019t even aware of the passing of time.<\/p>\n

The next morning, I woke up feel\u00ading more rested than I had felt in some time. That\u2019s it, <\/em>I thought. Swim! Swim\u00adming<\/a> will help me recover my stamina and my voice.<\/em><\/p>\n

What a wonderful discovery.<\/p>\n

The magic of being in the water, the weightlessness of it was freeing! In the water, I felt like a kid again, doing flips and somersaults, things I could never do at this point on dry land. The words \u201cIn him [Christ] we live and move and have our being\u201d took on new meaning for me. With each lap, I felt myself get\u00adting stronger.<\/p>\n

Thus began the workout that I con\u00adtinue to this day. Going to the Y\u2014it has a bigger pool\u2014swimming<\/a> for an hour, using it as prayer time. I do the breaststroke, freestyle, sidestroke, backstroke and something I call the frog. Each stroke I dedicate to one of our five kids, praying for them. I pray for every person who crosses my mind.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an old saying: Pray for yourself and you\u2019ve prayed once, pray for someone else<\/a> and you\u2019ve prayed twice. I pray collectively…for all of us to experience the freedom and the potential of what is possible when we see ourselves as \u201cliving, moving and being\u201d in the reality of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

Who knew that a spiritual prac\u00adtice<\/a> like this, in the pool, would come about at this stage of my life and, of all things, after open-heart surgery? Life sure does have its surprises. That\u2019s what makes the journey of faith such an adventure.<\/p>\n

In November 2020, I turned 60. I guess because I\u2019m a hometown girl, the Nashville paper did a story on me. I gave the reporter permission to talk to my cardiologist, Dr. Cage. He said my condition would have likely killed me in the next two to three years if I hadn\u2019t had surgery.<\/p>\n

Reading those words, I immedi\u00adately called Dr. Cage. \u201cThank you for not telling me that!\u201d Though he\u2019d said as much to Vince, he\u2019d spared me the added anxiety. That\u2019s great bedside manner in my book!<\/p>\n

Since my surgery, I\u2019ve had an 8 p.m. alert on my phone, except when I\u2019m performing (and, yes, my voice is back stronger than ever). \u201cPray for the caregivers<\/a>,\u201d it says. For all the people in hospitals and elsewhere who care for the ailing and who\u2019ve had to deal with the ongoing stress of this pan\u00addemic. And for the good people God put in my life who helped and cared for me. After all, what greater form of care is there than prayer? Especially when it comes from the heart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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