"Three
men have died from herpes encephalitis," my
physician husband told me. "We're having a
little epidemic here."
A request had
just come through our church's prayer chain:
"Pray that God will heal a 12-year old boy who
is in a coma from herpes
encephalitis."
There was
something about the severity of this situation
that called for more than a glib compliance with
the prayer request. Besides, I have a "truth and
justice" voice inside me that does not allow me
to comply with something I do not believe is
possible. Knowing the low survival rate for
herpes encephalitis, I did not believe at that
time recovery could be possible.
I could not
pray as I was told. However, I did pray, "God,
show me how to pray for this child." Next, I
held my closed Bible between the palms of both
hands, suspended all thinking and allowed my
thumbs to open the book intuitively. I know. I
know. People say you are not supposed to do
that. They argue, "What if you are told to do
something totally out of context?" Well, I was
asking God how I should pray for this boy and at
that time in my life, the only way I could be
certain the answer was coming from God, was to
look in the Bible.
"Show me how
to pray," I whispered as I opened the book. As
I glanced over the two pages of Psalm 27, verse
13 seemed to stand out to me:
"I
would have despaired unless I had believed
that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the
land of the living."(NASB)
What could
this mean? Was this a promise from God that the
boy would live? I spoke a soft prayer, "God, if
this is really you speaking through this verse,
then I believe he will be healed." I decided to
keep this to myself since it seemed to fly in
the face of rational facts, and it felt safer to
keep it inside my heart.
A few days
later I was at the hospital with one of my kids,
when I saw the boy's mother. We went for coffee
and I asked her, "So how is he?" Sadly, she
shook her head and replied, "The doctors say
there is little hope. He is brain-dead or will
be soon."
At that moment
I remembered the Bible verse, so I asked the
mother, "What does God say?" Her eyes lit up
and a smile stretched across her face. In a
hushed tone, she whispered, "Now that's another
matter! God tells me that all is well. But I'm
his mother. Maybe that is just wishful
thinking."
"Maybe not," I
pulled a small Bible from my purse. "Listen to
this verse I was drawn to while praying for your
son." I read it slowly and carefully, so she
could receive the full meaning behind it. "I
would have despaired unless I had believed that
I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land
of the living." When I was done, our eyes met;
we both stood up and embraced each other!
"Let's keep
this as our secret," the mother
suggested.
"I agree. It
is our secret." I promised.
Her son did
not die. Gradually he came back to life. It
was a long journey, but today he is alive and
well. I remember seeing him when he was about
19 years old - he had such a sweet expression on
his face that I wondered if he had been with
angels. I also found out that he could drive a
car and had his driver's license. I was told he
went downhill skiing with his friends on
weekends. He missed about a year of school and
had to learn how to read all over again, but in
the grand scheme of things, that is very little.
As I look back
upon this miracle - one of the first miracles in
which I participated -- I see a number of key
factors were at work:
1.
Acceptance of the diagnosis was a big step.
Often people simply do not want to accept what
is presenting in the moment. Denial and
suppression are never constructive.
2.
Integrity was vital. My desire for truth led
me to seek a higher level of information.
Sometimes it seems easier to go along with the
crowd, but this experience taught me to pay
attention to the resistance I feel when
confronted with someone's "wishful thinking."
3. I
trusted my intuition. Intuition is our
built-in guidance system. Some people get a
"gut feeling"; others get "goose bumps"; while
some folks seem to have a "knowing." In this
case, my intuition drew my attention to that
specific Bible verse.
4. I
carefully guarded this precious spiritual
insight. If I had tried to tell the
doctors, "God told me the boy will live," and
they reacted negatively to this message, they
could have created doubt in my heart and it's
possible the boy might have died
instead.
5. Power
was multiplied exponentially when two of us
expressed heart-felt agreement.
"If two of you on earth agree about anything
you ask for, it will be done for you by my
Father in heaven." (Matthew 18:19) David R.
Hawkins in Truth vs. Falsehood, page 38, states
that one person vibrating in unconditional love
counterbalances the negativity of 750,000
people, how much more powerful are two
people?
6. We
celebrated the signs along the way toward the
completion of this miracle! Sometimes a
miracle occurs in a moment. Other times, it
takes months or years to fully unfold. I
remember celebrating with gratitude each
milestone this young man reached during his
lengthy recovery. His mother and I kept our
secret with each other…until
now.
Looking back
on this miraculous event, I can clearly see how
the affirmation we are using during "A Year of
Miracles" is precise and true:
Even
though this situation looks bad (or hopeless or
endless)
I am opening a Window of Possibility to an
unexpected outcome.
When two
people hold open a Window of Possibility, even
the impossible becomes possible
and miracles happen.
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