The entire process took about three and a half to four hours. I think it was about 1:30 p.m. when they were finally ready to lift me out. I had been buried underneath that rubble for about twenty-three hours when they found me, and it was roughly twenty-seven hours before I was freed. How on earth did I survive being crushed by one of the most massive structures on the planet? How did I last as long as I did in those conditions? The change that was transpiring in me made those questions easy to answer. I didn’t do any of it. It was all God. He had a plan for me—one I could neither explain nor
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