Grow + Go | When God Shows Up in the Dark with Lucy Grimsey
Most miracle stories come packaged with ‘fancy faith’: big, bold, mountain-moving faith. The person prayed, believed, stood on the word, and God showed up. Hallelujah! And don’t get me wrong, those stories are fabulous, but they can also feel totally out of reach if that’s not your experience.
This story is different.
Lucy is a mum of two boys from Nottinghamshire who, in November 2024, was facing major surgery following a scan that showed cancer on her ovary and her liver. The medical team were so certain of what they would find that they warned her the surgery could be a long road, and to begin planning what would happen to her boys if it was. She didn’t expect healing. She doubted, questioned, wrestled with God, all alongside years of finding faith complicated (through divorce, through working in church safeguarding and seeing its darkest corners, through a long season of feeling like she didn’t belong in a church building).
And then the results came back. And the doctors had no explanation.
What makes this conversation so remarkable isn’t just the miracle. It’s the honesty around it. Lucy didn’t believe it. She asked them to retest. She asked why me? And even now she’s still figuring out how to process it.
We talk about:
✨ What it looked like to face a cancer diagnosis with complicated faith and no easy answers✨ What worship and gratitude can look like in hard seasons✨ The prayer spoken over her by a stranger who didn’t know her name and the video that proved it happened before the operation✨ What it means to receive a miracle you didn’t dare believe in✨ How this experience changed what Lucy thinks actually matters✨ Why even a miracle doesn’t make the intentional choices easier and why we have to keep returning again and again (powerofagain.com)
Is there something you’ve been praying for (or struggling to even let yourself pray for) that feels too big or too unlikely?
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