Back about 15 years ago when I was five months old, something very tragic happened to me—my pulse stopped and I almost passed away. I had a cyst in my stomach, which is a closed sac that has a distinct membrane and division on the nearby tissue. It normally contains air, fluids or semi-solid material. The cyst made me sick all the time, and I couldn't really eat anything because it wouldn't stay down. My mom and dad took me to the hospital to have surgery to remove the cyst.

That night was one of the most stressful nights for my mom and dad. After long hours of the surgery, the nurse was supposed to give me .5 cc of morphine, but instead gave me 5 cc. The doctor walked in to check on me after a while had passed, and noticed I was blue and not breathing. My mom followed the doctor into the room to see what he had to say. She was quickly rushed out of the room so the doctor could do what he had to do to help me start breathing again. She screamed and cried as the doctor fought for my life.

My dad stepped up to her and mentioned that she needed to calm down, to just wait to see what happens, and just pray about it. A few hours later, everything started to pull back together and I was breathing but not awake. A few days later, they let me go home but with tubes that were looping into my side, in the general area of where the cyst used to be, pumping to make sure the cyst did not come back. Now I have a huge scar that goes halfway across my stomach from the surgery and a little scar closer to my side from the where the tube was.

After being told the story of that day by my parents and family, and reading about it in my baby book, I realized that having faith and just taking time out in a situation to pray to God about it does a lot for a person's life. My perspective on God has really changed from all this. I mean, if God can bring a person back to life then He can help anybody get through anything. It still amazes me to this day that all of that happened.

Now, I try to have more faith in God in everything I do. Every time I have a problem that I think will never be resolved, I pray about it. Lately, I have been going around telling people about my miracle and helping them see that if they also have faith in God in everything that they do, something amazing might happen to them.

God is wondrous and can do things that people could never imagine. If He changed my life, then He can change yours, even if you don't know you need it.

Allison Couey is a junior at Pennfield High School in Battle Creek, Michigan. She attends the Battle Creek Tabernacle.