In 2020, Rob Hull was driving home on his motorcycle after a meeting in Nashville, TN, when a truck hit him from behind on the highway. Hull was launched from the motorcycle, hitting his head on the pavement. His wife, Keri, received the call. “I had no idea he was on his motorcycle that day. The first thing I heard was a woman on the other end saying, ‘Your husband’s okay, but he’s been in a motorcycle accident and he’s on his way to the hospital,’” she recalled. The couple’s children, daughter MJ and son Mason, rushed with their mother to the hospital but only Keri was allowed in due to COVID restrictions at the time. The family sent text messages to everyone they knew asking for prayers. “We were texting all the people that we knew, just to pray for him, and we were praying for him on the way there because we had no idea how bad it was going to be or what to even expect,” said MJ. Mason said it was a moment that brought him and his sister together. “So, with COVID restrictions they only let mom in there to go see him. So that kind of felt like a slap in the face, to be like we’re not going to hear anything until mom lets us know. Immediately, in that moment is where, I think, my sister and I weren’t scared of the intimacy of really praying together. With faith, boldness and expecting…I think that’s something I’ll always appreciate looking back, was getting to share that with my sister, being able to pray together,” he said.

Once in the hospital, Keri was able to see the full extent of Rob’s injuries. “I think that’s when the fear started to set in, was the minute I saw him in the bed. I was almost afraid to walk any closer to see what I was gonna see. I remember looking down and seeing his boots and his clothes on the ground and they were shredded. Like the boots were shredded. That really hit me, how bad it actually was,” Keri recalled. “And then when I came up to the side of him, I could see all the road rash and everything on the whole right side of his body.” MJ and Mason were able to Facetime their father, who was in a neck brace and barely able to speak.

Amazingly, despite the extent of the external injuries, the Hull family learned that Rob would be able to go home that night. Doctors revealed Rob had suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) but had suffered no internal bleeding or broken bones. He was able to walk out of the emergency room that night. Rob has since made a full recovery. “I’m thankful God spared me. I am. He could have taken me and called me home. I could have woken up in Heaven and not known even what happened,” he said. “Because as I woke up on the concrete, I didn’t even know what had happened. So it could have been a transition to Heaven, but I’m thankful He spared me.” Despite doctors calling his recovery “luck” at the time, Rob said he knew what it really was. “I’m blessed. This is God with me.”