God can fix it

This post (initially inspired by my husband), was supposed to have gone up in October last year, but for some reason I kept procastinating. It's finally up but it is now inspired by my husband and my son.

My husband is very handy. It’s one of my favorite things about him. If something breaks, and it’s fixable, odds are he can fix it. This is not just concerning our house, my entire family knows this about him. In the morning my mum will call “Kojo, can you please pass by the house before work? This has stopped working.”

My brother will call “bro i’m sending this device to the house, please help me out with it.”

And best believe, he will fix it.

The best part though is, while sometimes I think we worry him too much, he genuinely gets joy from being ‘the fixer’.

He will come home from work with one gadget that’s faulty and would stay up till he’s been able to solve the problem. In the morning, he’d excitedly tell me how he did it, his joy almost palpable. He also has a positive attitude about things. A ‘this can be done mentality’, which is a wonderful quality.

This is great for me because I am as clumsy as they get and my automatic response to inconvenience is panic. I would not lose things but oh I would damage them. Things tend to just slip out of my hands a lot for some unknown reason. Nowadays however, I realize I no longer panic when something gets broken. My new reaction is that my husband can fix it. Whether or not that has made me even clumsier is a story for another day.

The other day my glasses broke, and while years ago I’d worry that I would now have the expense of buying another, that day I knew I just had to wait for Kojo. And as expected, my glasses are currently on as I type this, as good as new.

While my husband is great at fixing all these gadgets and devices, there are many, many things he just can’t fix.

As I mentioned earlier, I first wrote this post in October, my son had not yet been born, and I was going to tell you how God can fix everything. At that time, I didn't quite need him to fix anything immediately, little did I know that just over a month later, I'll be praying for Him to "fix my son".

A day prior to my emergency CS, I had some new merch at the store. Twice I opened two boxes and the verse on the items I first took out was "Be still and know that I am God". (Read Psalm 46)

I remember crying tears of joy thinking that because my due date was approaching, God was trying to tell me that all will go smoothly.

I don't want to go into the details of his birth, but when my son was born he needed to be admitted to the special care baby unit (SCBU). I assure you that in all of my life, I had never been more scared. It has been a lot of years since I asked God questions but in those moments my questions were endless.

I knew what I needed to do: pray and have faith, simple. I am a good Christian. I am also a medical doctor, a good one. I should know better than to panic.

As the lab results came with discouraging news, both my faith and my medical knowledge seemed to go out the window. God had blessed me with my son and I felt he was going to take him back. Why?!

In those moments, I didn't want to be Diana of TTC, or Diana the MD, I just wanted to be Diana, the mum scared to death of losing her son.

Kojo, worried as he was also, tried to be strong for me, he held the fort down so well, but he couldn't fix this. The doctors were trying, but even they couldn't quite fix it because the labs and the clinical findings were not adding up. Only one person could fix this. In those days, I had forgotten about my blog post or about the verse that kept coming up that day. It was at 2am one night in my hospital bed, my eyes swollen and my head aching from crying so much, that I remembered.

Immediately I took my power back. My Father had prepared me for this. That night I started speaking His word over my son. The blessings of the Lord maketh rich and He adds no sorrow. HE ADDS NO SORROW!

The next day, new lab results were in. The doctors were satisfied and we were discharged to continue recovery at home. God had fixed it.

There are days life gets overwhelming and your heart will be heavy. There are days you make mistakes and find youself in situations you have no idea how to get out of. There are problems that come that no human can help you with on their own, no matter how hard they try.

Maverick City said, "there's just some problems, only God can fix."

But you know this, don’t you?! You know God can fix everything. Because He has fixed so much for us in the past, we should be rest assured that He will do so again when we are in difficult situations.

Unfortunately, we forget, like I forgot. When we have a problem, our first reaction is to worry, then find ways to get ourselves out of the situation, or we turn to people to help us. Our first resort eventually becomes our last. When all else fails, we then turn to God.

This shouldn’t be the case. When there is a problem our first instinct should be to hand it over to our Father. Not to worry, not to fear, not to panic.

Pray immediately there is an issue, train your mind and your body to make prayer your first resort. Do not wait till you’ve tried everything else.

God has His way of fixing things, whether by automatically doing it, or blessing you with wisdom or sending the right people to help.

God prepared me for the test, he also sent the right doctors and nurses to help me. He blessed me with the best family. He gave me an amazing husband. Yet, I doubted. I believe I coudn't quite post this in October because it was incomplete. The story needed to be complete so it'll help whom it should.

When there's a new year we all assume that everything will start anew. However, a lot of people go into the year with problems that were not sorted in the previous year. Please use my story as your sign that God will fix it.

One thing we can be certain of is that when God fixes it, it gets fixed properly. And He takes joy in helping you. He loves it when you turn to Him. He loves it when you cast your cares on Him, because He truly cares for you.

Do not immediately turn to alcohol, or friends, or panic, turn to Abba. He will never turn you away.

And throughout 2025, when the waters get rough, be still and know that He is God.

The One who was, who is, and who is to come. Unto Him be glory and honor forever and ever.

Amen.

Happy New Year!

Diana.