I am a Living Miracle

Hey everybody, most of you have never met me, but my name is Jayden John Schram and I am a living testimony. My parents are John and Misty Schram, and this is my story.

It all started when my parents knew they were going to have me. My mom and dad wanted to have a name with meaning so that was how I got the name Jayden, which means “Jehovah has heard”. It was fitting since my dad had prayed for his first born to be a son since he was about 12 yearas old.

Anyway, let’s skip forward to the beginning of my birth and how I was raised from the dead like Jesus.

When it was time for me to make my start in life I was dealt a bad set of cards. “The dead mans hand”, one might say. The cord was wrapped around my neck twice so I was strangled to death. when I arrived I had no heartbeat or anything. About 8 nurses came to my rescue and started CPR. My mom and dad were worried, but they have served God for quite sometime. Even though they were worried, my dad felt the Holy Spirit remind him about Romans 4:17 about how God quickens the dead and call things not as though they were. So he reached his hand in my direction and said I would live and not die, in Jesus name. Then he did the best he could to comfort my mom. It had been almost ten minutes and they were about to give up on me when I was resurrected from the dead, and my heart started to beat again. In the process a rib had been separated and a lunch punctured. then, due to the lack of oxygen my brain went into shock and I had some seizure like symptoms. I had a rough start, but I am a fighter, just like my old man, and I have his determination as well.

I had to be sent to a children’s hospital in Cincinnati and my dad followed me over there. The doctor told my dad that there was a very good chance that I had sustained brain damage and he needed to prepare himself for the worst. Dad told the doctor to do his best and let God take care of the rest. The doctor told Dad he did not think he was properly mentally preparing himself for the worst and dad told him that he respected his opinion but all the rest and the doctor would do would prove that I was perfect until he had conclusive evidence to support different. My mom and dad have a lot of faith in God. Also there were many other family members and friends praying for me as well so thanks to all. I had to be put on a cooling blanket for 72 hours, having a feeding tube inserted, and be put on a ventilator.

My dad stayed the night with me. Thanks dad, and I know mom would have been there if she could have. By the next morning I had enough of the ventilator so I pulled it out. They put me on supplemental oxygen for a couple more days, but no more ventilator. They started the heart, kidney, and liver tests but all the tests were complete and they said I was perfect, just like my dad told them. When I first arrived at the hospital they said I would be there for 2-3 weeks, but I was out in 9 days, just like daddy said. The last thing I had to do was overcome full feedings so I would not need the feeding tube any longer and I did that in 2 days. Everybody was so proud. They wanted me to stay a couple extra days in the hospital but there was no reason, and if you know my dad, he can be direct, professional, but direct, and he made sure that I was out on Good Friday and able to see all our friends and family for Easter.

I got to spend the rest of my time with my family before dad had to go back to war and defend America. He has a platoon, “The Punishers” who needed him. Just like I need him. It was a good time, just not long enough. I am Jayden Schram and I am a living miracle.

The Allen Shooting

I was there 30 mins before it happened. I had heard Pastor Justin's message about praying and being in the right place at the right time online that morning. The Lord kept telling me to pray before I went and not to turn the TV on before I left home. I knew I’d be delayed. I stopped at the mall on the way to meet my cousin because I had never been to the mall before as I’m new to the area. Afterwards I heard about the shooting and went back to track timeline and realized I was there 30 mins beforehand. I’m so grateful for the Word from Pastor Justin as well as being used by God to pray not only for myself, but others who's lives were potentially spared due to divine delays.

God Watched Over the Ship During the Typhoon

When I was 8 years old I gave my life to the Lord and became a Christian. Then back in 1975 I joined the U.S. Navy and upon completion of boot camp I was sent to a school to learn the job that I was going to be doing while I was in the Navy. My job in the Navy was to keep track of all of the paperwork on all of the maintenance of a squadron of Navy airplanes. Upon completion of my school I received a set of orders to a sea going squadron that was already on deployment to the Western Pacific onboard the USS Oriskany. The Uss Oriskany was a left over aircraft carrier from the second world war. This was my first deployment in the Navy so I had to fly 18 hours from the United States to the Phillipine Islands to catch up to the ship. When I caught up to the ship it was tied up to the pier at the Naval Base Subic Bay shipyard. That was January 4, 1976 and the next day the ship set sail for Hong Kong along with a bunch of other ships. We had been at sea for a couple of weeks when we came across a typhoon. The USS Oriskany was the biggest ship out of all of the bunch of ships in our task force. As we came close to the typhoon we onboard the Oriskany could see all of the other ships in our task force get bounced around by all of the big waves. We onboard the aircraft carrier could barely feel the ship rock from the big waves. Apparently all of the other ships in our task force decided to turn around and go back to the Phillipine Islands. The Comanding Officer of the Oriskany decided to keep going on to Hong Kong. The Captain tried to go around the typhoon but, every time he tried to go around the typhoon it moved right in front of the ship. All of the squadrons onboard the Oriskany tied down every airplane in the Hanger Bay and on the Flight Deck with 25 tie down chains on each aircraft. Also on the Flight Deck all of the canopies were closed and the intakes on the jets were covered to prevent water from getting in and damaging the aircraft. Then all of the hatches going outside were closed and locked. Then announcements were made that nobody was allowed outside the ship because they could be blown over the side of the ship and into the sea. I worked just behind the ready room for the squadron. Then one day somebody came into the ready room and wanted to see what was going on outside. They turned on the closed circuit TV set and tuned it into the channel for viewing what was going on outside. In the super structure on the flight deck there was a camera that was mounted and locked pointing towards the bow of the ship. We could see on the TV set the bow of the ship point to the sky and then see the bow of the ship point down and have waves crash on to the flight deck. The distance from the flight deck to the water is 90 feet. We figured that the waves had to be over 100 feet tall because they were crashing onto the flight deck. We remained in the typhoon for 7 days and during those 7 days the ship did alot of heavy rocking. After we had completed those 7 days the Captain decided to go back to the Phillipine Islands. When we got back to the Phillipine Islands the ship remained there for 2 weeks to repair the ship and then went back to the United States. This was my introduction to being at sea and God watched over the ship during the typhoon.