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Keep Those Prayers Coming…
By Vinny Distefano
Since the day of the accident, I have had an opened hot-line to The Big Guy upstairs. Often, during the day, someone will ask “…How’s she doin’?” I’ll hand over an Angel-Hawk card and give them the short edition. I’d love to say to them, “Here’s her number. Call her and ask her yourself.” But when they leave, I find myself praying so hard for Angie to be able to come home soon... The prospect of someone Angie’s age, twenty-seven, spending fifty, sixty or seventy years in a nursing home is out of the question. My research shows why…
The Associated Press
N E W Y O R K, July 23 —Many nursing homes are so understaffed they may be endangering the welfare of their patients, according to a new report by federal health officials. Read this story
N E W Y O R K, July 23 —Many nursing homes are so understaffed they may be endangering the welfare of their patients, according to a new report by federal health officials. Read this story
Recently, I’d seen a story on the news about a study funded by the government on the healing power of prayer, too. So I did some more digging. There is an enormous amount of data out there supporting prayer. No one wants to report on this kind of study, though. It’s hard to report on prayer and not get lumped in with the religious-right in this country and many of their overboard policies and tactics.
Can Prayer Heal?
Scientists Suggest Recovery May Be the Hand of God at Work
Here’s an excerpt…"This study offers an interesting insight into the possibility that maybe God is influencing our lives on Earth," says O'Keefe. "As a scientist, it's very counterintuitive because I don't have a way to explain it."
NewsMax.com Wires
November 14, 2000
It seems like a dream, but is it possible that scientists are admitting they can’t explain everything in our universe? Can doctors be far behind? And, as you’ll read in the story,
"From a purely scientific standpoint, I thought it was illogical," says O'Keefe. "I don't really think of spirituality normally as playing a role in scientific, rigorous, double-blind placebo-controlled scientific studies. It's two different realms."
There they are again. Those words, double-blind and placebo. Even when the tightest controls possible were followed, these scientists had no explanation as to why prayer worked. Could it be that science will never have the “proof” it needs to say that God and prayers do all the healing in our world? How often have we heard words like, “I’m sorry…We did all we could”. What exactly does that mean? Did the drugs not work properly? Or did they and for some unknown reason, the person was taken from us anyway. Or what about the reverse. Without any explanation at all, a person, who by all medical standards shouldn’t be getting better…is! When I lost my Dad in 1991, I was glad that the pain from his cancer was finally gone. But I was told by my family, a few days before, he was found sitting up in a chair by the window in his room. No one knows how he got there. He was heavily drugged and had a broken hip. He somehow disconnected his I.V’s and got to the chair. He could hardly move when I saw him earlier. Was this some kind of sign to us that he would be OK? And, as I wrote last year as well, I have a photo with him in the background. The photo was taken a year after he died. Yes, I have checked for double exposures. As a photographer, I know what it looks like. This is not.
Are these hints to us to look harder for our answers, beyond what we can see and touch? I know I have heard Angie’s voice from time to time…while I’m awake and working, with no one else around. It’s usually just my name, but some times it’s her giggling. And the dreams just keep on coming. So vivid and real, when I wake up, I have to stop and remember, we’re not quite there yet. Is it all in my mind or is she being allowed to communicate with us so we keep on working and never give up? If anyone could convince God to let her signal us while she’s healing, it’s Angie.
So…do I have your attention yet? Does He have your attention yet? I am probably the farthest thing from a preacher as one can get. I won’t be making any guest appearances on Benny Hin or Jerry Falwell. But as Angie continues to improve slowly, I will ask that the people who read our newsletter, past it onto another and another…to get as many people as we can to pray for Angie’s recovery. I know her name is on a number of prayer lists around the country. She needs your help to spread the word to your friends and family and co-workers. Send this newsletter to your e-mail addresses. I won’t spam anyone with unsolicited e-mails. Please visit Angie’s guest book and tell us who you are. My prayer is that one day Angie will answer you and thank everyone herself.
Till next time, be safe…Hugs and Prayers
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