Former NFL player Tommie Harris says his faith has helped him cope with the loss of his wife and child.
Harris told Fox and Friends that it is a “miracle” that he was able to continue his life after losing his wife, Ashley and later, losing his child.
“I look at a miracle every day when I look in the mirror and see that I’m not in a straitjacket or [have] lost my mind for what I’ve been through,” he said in the interview. “I’m a walking testimony. God moves every day through me, encourages me, inspires me to help someone else beyond myself.”
His wife, Ashley, was 28 when she suffered a brain aneurysm in 2012, Faithwire reports.
“We [were] married for 41 days,” Harris said. “I was on a plane … never knowing that when we land, I would get a phone call that said my wife stopped breathing on the table and I needed to hurry up and get to Oklahoma.”
“I had to pull a cord at 28 [years old], having millions of dollars, and nothing could help me at that moment. I lost all purpose for finances, for everything,” he said, referring to the decision to take her off life support. “That was the biggest time I believe my faith was tested, and I remember pulling the cord and I told God to let His will be done in my life.”
Four years after his wife’s death, Harris had a child with another woman, who died at 4 months old…
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