The Restoration of the Albees; Part II
“I didn’t even realize how bad things had gotten,” Adam says upon looking back upon the last decade of his life.
Their relationship had fallen apart; Adam drank and partied with his
motorcycle friends, and fought at bars to release his tensions. He and
Lane’ had a baby, lived in two separate homes and had gotten a divorce.
Adam admits he was a broken man, but just when he thought it couldn’t get worse.
“I was on 2nd Street in Rochester, MN, at about 2:30 in the afternoon. A car happened to make a u-turn across 2nd street and I never saw him coming. There was a truck coming toward me and when I came out the backside of that truck, I looked just long enough to lay the motorcycle down and go underneath of it.
It ripped my right ear off and my right arm, tore all the nerves to that.
I had an internal head injury and woke up in the hospital.” He goes on to say, “One of the first things they told me was, ‘No more drinking, no more partying or you will not heal’. So, God stopped it. He stopped it. He just put the brakes on my whole life. In one second He stopped everything about my life that He wanted changed.”
For the next two years, Adam was out of work, had lost his partying buddies and “thought” he had nowhere to turn.
Adam says, “I picked up my Bible and sat down and cried and said, ‘God, somewhere I went wrong. I went wrong. I sinned and this is a disaster.
Somehow, if anything in this book is true help me put my life back together. Build something out of nothing because I have nothing left’”.
And God answered his cry. Slowly, Adam began a new life through restoration and healing that lead him back to a very skeptical ex-wife.
“He actually came to me two years after the accident and was professing all of his changes and kind of begging for me back. I actually thought he had gone crazy, I thought he had gone kind of mad,” said his wife, Lane’.
“I told her, ‘I know if we go back at this and we try it again, with a Godly perspective and with God in the center of this and I focus on what I should be doing for you,” Adam remembers.
Lane’ was not so sure about the change. She goes on to say, “At that point for him to say anything about the Holy Spirit I thought he was completely crazy. I didn’t believe that that could happen.”
It did happen. Their son, Asher, at this point was a young man and was about to see his biggest prayer answered.
Lane’ recalls, “Oh my gosh. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it. He wanted it just like any other kid. It was just amazing. People would keep coming up to us and tell us how happy Asher was. Everyone had noticed that he did a complete turn around. People at church noticed.”
A small ceremony brought this broken man and his family back together with God solidly and sincerely as the new foundation.
“One of the most beautiful things about the Bible is that every promise that God makes is true, every one of them. There is nothing in there that isn’t true. So if God says that He can restore anything if you repent, this is proof that it happens. I can read in it and it says, ‘God works together all things for the good of those who love Him’. ALL things. So somehow this accident must be good for me. Somehow losing the ability to use my arm for a period of time must have been good for me. Somehow, not having a job must have been good for me. Now, only a few years later I can look back and see how it was all good for me,” Adam concludes.
