Practicing your religion requires faith and faith-building efforts. We use prayer, scripture reading, meditation, and a combination of three to increase our faith, we hope. But what great joy memorable and it is during those moments when we know. We simply believe. We know.
Faith or belief can lead to rare moments of consciousness. I mean awareness undisputed ultimate reality that God reigns in glory, and His power and love are beyond all description. Because we can not explain such an experience, he sometimes makes law Evidence physically before our eyes in the form of miracles. Then there is nothing to explain.
When we witness a miracle, we can tell others what happened. We do not have to explain, because the event is not debatable. Something happened undeniable and the cause could be God Himself.
Some people came yesterday, my little chapel for Sunday Mass, and I have talked a few times the Lord has made his presence known to me. They all had tears in their eyes, as I told these miracles, but when I told the story true of a young girl in a wheelchair with tears streaming down their cheeks.
She was only 17 years old, paralyzed from the chest by a terminal illness. Her mother, who brought him into my office, wearing a heavy, thick file containing all the medical reports stating that the child died a few months. Their pastor had addressed me in grief counseling.
Barely able to speak, interrupted by sobs, the mother said her daughter had been in diapers for three months. Not only she could not move, she could not feel.
I often claim that God spoke to me, but this time he did. It was almost as if he shouted in his ear that this condition was not his intention. Thus, instead begin consultation pain, I began to pray.
Mother and I put my hand on his head and prayed and prayed. As we continued to ask the Lord for His will to escape, the girl began waving his little feet.
Then she began to pull itself around the desktop by dragging the carpet with her toes so that the wheelchair can move forward. Her mother began to cry when I'm stifled place and the child began to laugh.
Next, she was out running back and forth along the corridor. Then, aloud, she exclaimed, "Mom, I gotta go to the toilet!"
Now, fully confident that the Holy – Spirit was with us, I told them she would walk in the next ten days. They left my office, knowing that my words were true, that the Spirit speaks through me.
The next day I went into my office as usual, and as I was buzzing around, the phone rang. The voice on the other end said: "Last night I went rollerblading with my friends."
That same day she returned to her pastor. When he saw her enter in the room and stand before him with a big smile on his face, he collapsed. He went into such emotional turmoil that he needed to return home.
The story was on the front page of local newspaper the girl, but nowhere was it mentioned after having prayed on she. Anyone who saw the account of the editor had to conclude that God has acted. Nobody had done this miracle. For at least one time, readers must have joined the mother and daughter in an experience of knowledge.
Fr. Heyward B. Ewart, III, Ph.D. is president of St. James the Elder Theological Seminary, a low-cost distance-learning opportunity for all denominations. He is also author of “AM I BAD? Recovering from Abuse”, published by Loving Healing Press.
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