The Word Among Us

Lent 2022 Issue

It Won’t Last Forever

God Used Chickens to Speak a Word of Healing to My Soul

By: Annette Ibingha

It Won’t Last Forever: God Used Chickens to Speak a Word of Healing to My Soul by Annette Ibingha

Ten years ago, I suffered a brutal attack on my way home from work. The attacker threw me to the ground and stabbed me, leaving me for dead as he fled with my personal belongings. I woke up in a narrow hospital hallway to the sight of doctors and nurses shuffling by hurriedly with their heads down.

“I’m giving her the medicine now,” I heard one doctor say. A grim-faced man sat across my bed trying to explain what went wrong....

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