April 8th marks my second birthday—the anniversary of receiving a second chance at life when I faced near-death from Budd-Chiari syndrome during Easter weekend 2012. This life-threatening condition, which carried an 80% mortality rate, became the catalyst for my spiritual rebirth and renewed purpose.
• Experienced excruciating chest pain while traveling that felt like “15 knives piercing my chest”
• Followed divine guidance to lean forward in order to breathe, which saved my life
• Diagnosed with Budd-Chiari syndrome—a life-threatening blood clot compromising my liver
• Made a spiritual promise while in ICU: “If you give me this, I will devote my life to you”
• Received profound peace and confirmation of healing after praying with a Catholic diocese visitor on Easter Sunday
• Felt God’s presence alongside my now-husband Donnie, uniting us spiritually in that hospital room
• Wearing a 1 Corinthians 13 bracelet as a reminder of love’s patient, kind, and persevering nature
• Learning that we’re meant to live in communion with God and others—”alone sucks”
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Transcript:
Speaker 1:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, sylvia Worsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, sylvia Worsham.
Speaker 2:
Hey, lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Worsham. Welcome to Released Out Reveal Purpose. In this episode we’re going to be talking about second chances and miracles, and today, april 8th 2025, is a very special day for me. It is my birthday, or should I say my second birthday, because it was the day that I received a second chance at life. And these three days prior are important days in my life because I reflect back on that Easter weekend when my then boyfriend, who then turned into my second husband, asked my little boy and I to take a trip, and I had had pain for a couple of days and didn’t think much of it, because in those years I was so in love and so full of hope and longing that I took a flight, despite my mother’s warnings and my mother’s intuition, and landed in the largest medical center in Texas, in Houston. Luckily, when my boyfriend saw that I looked pale and very sickly, decided against driving overnight to Louisiana and staying in Houston overnight. Great idea, because in the middle of the night I was jolted awake by a pain that can only be described as like 15 knives piercing my chest. Every time I took a breath and somewhere, intuitively, I knew something was wrong and a prompting came through, lean forward and you’ll be able to breathe. And that action, that obedience from the Holy Spirit, saved my life. It was my first miracle when I finally landed in the hospital.
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The next day they took several scans and determined that my liver was compromised. They didn’t understand on that Saturday morning of Easter weekend what was going on, but they did a scan of my abdomen and in walked six doctors into my hospital room and I knew something was very, very wrong. None of them made eye contact and they stated, very urgently, we need to get you into ICU stat. And what I didn’t hear until much later? My father explained to me that the condition that they discussed with him and my brother and sister over the phone was Bud Carey syndrome, and Bud Carey syndrome is basically a blood clot that is compromising the liver and can lead to acute liver failure and require a transplant, which is what the doctors explained to me. What they failed to tell me in that moment was that it carried an 80% chance of death. My mother heard the specialist on the case tell the ICU director if you don’t get this girl a bed, she is going to die tonight. So it was critical for them to do what they needed to do and they were doing things that were not within label because they were running against time, and they were really quite shocked.
Speaker 2:
I had made it this long. I should have had massive pain and I didn’t. And I know that God’s providence was with me and I felt his strength with me Because in that moment that they’re describing what is happening in my body, I closed my eyes and visualized surrendering to God and asking him for my second chance at life, in fact, begging him and making a deal with Christ. If you give me this, I will devote my life to you.
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Sunday morning rolls around now this is Easter Sunday morning of 2012, resurrection Day for Christians and in walks, a woman with the Catholic diocese and I can still see her to this day the color of her two-piece suit it was like a shamrock green. I will never forget her. And she said Sylvia, can I pray with you? And Donnie was in the room with me and we formed a circle and we started reciting the Our Father for the Catholics and the Lord’s prayer for the Christians, and the part where it said thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I felt a peace wash over me and the love so immense, it enveloped the whole room and I felt cradled by Christ’s arms and he basically told me I gave you a second chance. I mean, I knew it. I didn’t need confirmation from doctors. And when she left the room, donnie turned to me and said you felt them too, didn’t you? And I knew that Donnie and I had been united even then in marriage by Christ. He had blessed our union in that ICU room and gave us a spiritual assignment of sorts saying I have answered both your prayers. Sylvia will live, she’ll get her second chance at life because she’s meant to do something totally different.
Speaker 2:
See, and when I reflect back on this time, I can tell you that I have worked in so many ways for him, for Christ, because I owe him so much. I mean, he died for me on the cross, and the most horrible death possible, and the most horrible death possible. And on top of that, he was with me in those early morning hours when I felt that first pain that jolted me awake and gave me guidance. And, guys, I was so obedient to him. Because here’s the thing with free will and obedience when you run into turning points like this in your life, you have choices. Sometimes it’s not choices you want to make, but they are choices, right. You can stay in the circumstances that you win or you can make a change and you can stay obedient to what god is guiding you to do because, you see, god sees everything all the wounds, all your pain. He sees your parents’ pain and how their wounds created within them. He sees it all and when you invite him into your life and ask him to guide you, he does every time because, guys, he’s been there with you in the thick and the thin of it. He has been with you a long time. If anything, you have abandoned him. If you have not felt his presence, have you been going on in your life and not including him in the simplest of decisions, even if it’s?
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How do I react to my husband today? How tell me how to do this? You know his heart, you know what he thinks, you know what he needs and you do it because it’s important to that person. I’m not. Today was just a very special day for me and I, in all these years, have felt God’s protection In the toughest of moments. I have felt his love and you know, in these days I wear this bracelet because, like I said, in the next 40 days I’m going to be making a change that God has been preparing me for all this time, and that is total submission in my marriage.
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That is not something that came very easily to me, and so I’m wearing 1 Corinthians 13, verse 1 through 8, which is always read at wedding ceremonies. It’s the love is patient, love is kind. Hold up, I got to move it around. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. That’s my favorite part. Love does not. It’s not wanting to help me here. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. That’s my favorite too. Love never fails. Perseveres that’s my favorite too. Love never fails. So I just want to end with this.
Speaker 2:
Whatever season in life you find yourself in, invite a man, even on simple request. He just wants to be part of your life. He wants to be part of your world. He wants to be part of your world. Don’t do this alone. Alone sucks, and alone is not the way we’re meant to be in this life. We’re meant to be in communion with him, in communion with others. I’m Sylvia Worsham. Thank you so much for tuning in to Second Chances and Miracles. Have a wonderful week, stay safe. Love you all.
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