Posted on March 7, 2013 - by Regina
MIRACLES
I had my post all done, posted, and scheduled this time. I was DONE. So proud of myself . . . and then it hit me.
I had written the wrong post.
Oh, the original was all about how prayer had made a difference in my life many years ago, but then it hit me that prayer has affected my life more recently. Like, in the past three weeks!
In the wee hours of Tuesday, February 19, I received a text message. My dear friend and brother I never had. His newborn grandson was in distress. He asked for prayer. It didn’t look good.
When I got the message the next morning, I, along with many others, started praying, kept the word going, searched for updates, and prayed some more.
The baby was born with the cord wrapped around his neck, no heartbeat, and had gone 5 minutes without oxygen. At the very least, there would be brain damage and significant problems later on. It would take a miracle for this to turn out well.
The prayers continued across several states, and updates came as they could. The baby was resuscitated, and then rushed to an NICU in the town where he was born where he was immediately put on “cold therapy,” which sounds awful, but is the best treatment for oxygen-deprived infants.
As days wore on, he started to cry, and finally, he was able to eat. The first day they started running tests on him at about a week old, they were cautiously optimistic.
The next day they started more tests and found that everything seemed to be in working order. Hmmm. The doctors could not find anything wrong with him. They still planned to keep him a week or two, just to let him get stronger and observe him.
Prayers didn’t stop. They increased, if anything, as the word continued to go forth about this precious baby boy.
On Friday, March 1, at 10 days old, he was released from the hospital, three days after the doctors said it would be a couple of weeks. My friend said that in seminary, the definition of a miracle was “suspending the laws of nature for Devine intervention.”
A miracle.
Baby, mother, and father – and grandparents, aunts and uncles! – are all doing well.
God is still in the miracle business, friends.
Pray, expecting a miracle.
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Rose Ross Zediker said:
Regina,
What a wonderful story and excellant example of God’s devine intervention.
I have tears in my eyes.
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Brenda Anderson said:
You should have warned the reader that they’d need tissues. What an amazing story. Thanks for reminding me that miracles do indeed still happen.
“Pray, expecting a miracle.” Love that, Regina. Admittedly, I have to work to do…
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Shari Barr said:
What a beautiful story, Regins. Yes, He does still do miracles. So glad He brought one to your family.
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Dawn Ford said:
Regina, This hydro therapy was the same that saved my brother when he had his massive heart attack. It keeps the brain swelling down which keeps the person from having brain damage. I thank God for this medical breakthrough (He is the great Physician!) which will save precious lives of unknown amount. And I know that it was only through prayers as well that kept my brother alive, and this brought this baby home. Isn’t God great?
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Regina Merrick said:
The hydrotherapy was fascinating. The REALLY neat thing was when I was talking to an older lady, and her brother, I think it was, was born early, and in distress – and they basically did the same thing – in the 1940′s! Wow. God’s got something in mind for these little fellas!
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Kav said:
Thanks for this great reminder. God is still in the miracle business. I think we can be careless about giving credit where credit is due in this day and age. Firmly convinced that there are more miracles in play then luck as some would like to say.
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Lorna Seilstad said:
Wow! What a story, Regina. Thank you for sharing this. I can only imagine all the prayers that went up on behalf of this precious little one, and all the prayers of thanksgiving that followed his homecoming.
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Crystal Brothers said:
Thanks for sharing, Regina! But now I want to know about your original prayers answered from years ago
Such an awesome testimony for that baby! We have a similarly awesome testimony for Logan that I’ll have to tell ya sometime…not quite *that* dramatic but very close.
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Stacy said:
LOVE that story – how cool is God? So glad that baby and family are doing well. Thanks for sharing that, Regina. We don’t hear those stories often enough.
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Marianne said:
Day late, here. My Mom is a miracle…last August we almost lost her. God had us at the right place at the right time for that to happen. Today she is back to where she was before her episode, 6 months after the doctors said it would be years, she is in Arizona, reading, knitting, visiting going about her life. We live in Alberta, so this is a big thing. But i question…is a miracle only when things turn out good?
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