Busy Mom Pushes Through The Pain

Terri remembers, “The pain would be behind my eyes. And it would be just really severe, like a clenching pain.  It would just be hard to concentrate and hard to just do my normal, everyday things.”

For ten years, Terri suffered from weekly headaches that lasted up to twelve hours at a time. 

She says, “Sometimes I would be nauseous and it just affected everything.  At the time, I had three kids I was homeschooling. And you just have to get up and keep going.”

Sometimes the headaches became debilitating migraines.

She explains, “The migraines, I would get—it’s called like the classical aura.  I couldn’t see, I’d have little flashes of light and there would be parts of my vision field I couldn’t see.  Mine mimicked strokes and so I couldn’t communicate.  And I would have paralysis in part of my body for a few minutes.”

Terri’s doctor wasn’t able to determine the cause of her headaches.

Terri says, “Nobody ever found anything. None of the medication really worked. So I just gave up on that.  I just a lot of times felt like I was on the sidelines, you know, of life.  I would kind of go through the motions of things. But it was just hard to be fully engaged.”

Desperate for relief, Terri studied the Bible to learn about healing.

She says, “I learned a lot more about the healing Scriptures. And that Jesus paid for that also on the cross.  And I just learned a lot of God’s Word, but also just comfort and pressing into God, you know, during the hard times.”

Even though Terri’s headaches persisted, she kept praying and believing for a miracle.  One night, she and her husband turned on the television. 

Terri recalls, “I had a headache at the time.  And it was really severe and probably one of the reasons I couldn’t sleep. And so we were in the bed watching The 700 Club.”

Then, Terry Meeuwsen prayed, “Someone else, you have excruciating headaches. I don’t know if they’d be diagnosed as migraines but you’ll know it’s you. The pain is like right behind your eyes and it just almost makes you feel like your eyes are throbbing when you have this, and it’s recurring. God is healing that right now.  The pain is gone, and you’ll not have them again.”

Terri says, “I thought okay, this is me.  Especially when she gave the word about the migraines too. Because that was extra confirmation that it was-it was me.  The next day it was hardly anything at all. But still a little residuals.  And then after that I haven’t had any pain since. It was almost like wow, it’s here finally after all this time.  And it was just a blessing to –to not have to worry, you know, am I going to get up tomorrow with a headache? No.”

Terri’s faith is stronger than ever, and she encourages others to keep trusting God in the midst of trial.

She says, “One of His names is El Roi – the God who sees me.  And that’s what I kept thinking was, you know, You see me. Thank You that You see me.  He is faithful and He will do what He promises.”